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SIXTY-FIFTH ANNUAL COMMUNICATION, HELD AT
CHICAGO, OCTOBER 4, 5 and 6, 1904.

PROCEEDI N GS

OF TH E

MOST WORSHIPFUL.

GRAN D LODGE

ANCIENT FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS

OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS

WM. B. WRIGHT, M. W. Grand Master
J. H. C. DILL, R. W. Grand Secretary

Bloomington, Illinois

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1904

OFFICERS OF THE MOST WORSHIPFUL

Grand Lodge

OF

Ancient Free and Accepted Masons

OF THE

State of Illinois

1904-5.

Wm. B. Wright —
Chester E. Allen. .
Alexander H. Bell

A. B. Ashley

L. A. Goddard

J. H. C. Dill

J. W. VanCleve

Herbert Preston . .

..M.W. Grand Master Effingham

. -R.W. Deputy Grand Master . Galesburg
..R. W. Senior Grand Warden . Carlinville
. M. W. Junior Grand Warden.ha, Grange

. • B. W. Grand Treasurer Chicago

. .B. W. Grand Secretary Bloomington

. . B. W. Grand Chaplain Decatur

. . B. W. Grand Orator Chicago

Geo. A. Stadler W. Deputy Grand Secretary .Decatur

Henry L. Whipple W. Grand Pursuivant Quincy

Louis Zinger W. Grand Marshal Pekin

W. H. Peak W. Grand Standard Bearer. . Jonesboro

J. R. Ennis W. Grand Sword Bearer Burnt Prairie

Walter Watson W. Senior Grand Deacon. . . Mt. Vernon

Norman Mesnard W Junior Grand Deacon . . .Blue Mound

W. M. Burbank W. Grand Steward Chicago

Geo. W. Hamilton . W. Grand Steward Prairie City

W. B. Grimes W. Grand Steward Pittsfield

C. Rohrbough W. Grand Steioard Kinmundy

C. S. Gurney Bro. Grand Tyler Chicago

PROCEEDINGS OF THE MOST WORSHIPFUL

Grand Lodge

OF

Ancient Free and Accepted Masons

OF THE

State of Illinois.

AT ITS SIXTY-FIFTH ANNUAL COMMUNICATION.

In compliance with the provisions of the Constitution and
By-Laws of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Ancient
Free and Accepted Masons of the State of Illinois, the Sixty-
fifth Annual Communication was held at Studebaker Hall, in
the city of Chicago, commencing on Tuesday, the fourth day of
October, A. D. 1904, A. L. 5904, at 10 o'clock a. m.

The M. W. Grand Master proceeded to open the M. W.
Grand Lodge of Illinois in ample form.

PRAYER-By Rabbi A. Traugott, W. M. Springfield Lodge No. 4.

Almighty and Merciful Father. Thou who hearest prayer and art nigh
unto all who call upon Thee, and who call upon Thee in truth, we are en-
couraged by Thy daily mercies, to ask the bestowal of Thy gracious bless-
ing upon this meeting of the M. W. Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and
Accepted Masons of the State of Illinois.

O Lord ! Thou who art our Supreme Grand Master here in this great
fraternal gathering, we feel the blessed influence of Thy divine spirit ; we
loosen the fetters that hold us fast to the material world and lift ourselves
on the wings of lofty aspirations into Thy celestial realms.

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Grant unto us, O God, perception and wise insight that the difficulties of
our work may disappear hefore our earnest efforts to master them. In all
that we may accomplish here, teach us to see Thy Majesty which works
so silently and yet so grandly, in all spheres and in all times. May the
example of the illustrious brethren of our Order be not lost upon us, but
serve as additional incentives to the emulation of all that has gained for
them our approval. Foster and preserve in us the qualities that shall en-
dear us to all our brethren, and give us the wise perception to moderate
and remove those which might prevent our aim.

Supreme Architect of the Universe ! In whatever way Thy Wisdom
can find to bless our work, in Thy bountiful mercy to all humanity, grant
unto us Thy grace and protection, strengthening and success. Amen.

The Lexington Quartette, on invitation of the M. W.
Grand Master, gave several pleasing selections, and received
the thanks of the M. W. Grand Lodge.

REPORT— Committee on Credentials.
Bro. James I. McClintock, chairman of the Committee on
Credentials, announced that Representatives from a constitu-
tional number of lodges were present, and presented his report.
On motion the report was adopted and further time given the
committee to make additions to it.

To the M. IV. Grand Lodge of Illinois, A. F. and A. Masons.:

Your Committee on Credentials fraternally report that the following
brethren whose names appear in this report are present and entitled to seats
in this Grand Lodge :

GRAND OFFICERS.

Bro. William B. Wright M.W. Grand Master.

Bro. C. E. Allen R.W. Deputy Grand Master.

Bro. Alexander H. Bell R.W. Senior Grand Warden.

Bro. A. B. Ashley R.W. Junior Grand Warden.

Bro. Leroy A. Goddard R.W. Grand Treasurer.

Bro. J. H. C. Dill R.W. Grand Secretary.

Bro. Joseph Stolz R.W. Grand Chaplain.

Bro. W. A. Northcott R.W. Grand Orator.

Bro. G. A. Stabler W. Deputy Grand Secretary.

Bro. Henry L. Whipple -. . IV. Grand Pursuivant.

Bro. Louis Zinger W. Grand Marshal.

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Bro. Wm. H. Peak W . Grand Standard Bearer.

Bro. J. R. Ennis W. Grand Sword Bearer.

Bro. Walter Watson W. Senior Grand Deacon.

Bro. N. M. Mesnard W. Junior Grand Deacon.

Bro. C. Rohrbough IV. Grand Steward.

Bro. W. B. Grimes IV. Grand Steward.

Bro. Wellman M. Burbank W. Grand Steward.

Bro. G. W. Hamilton IV. Grand Steward.

Bro. C. S. Gurney Bro. (Acting) Grand Tyler.

PAST GRAND OFFICERS.

Bro. Joseph Robbins Past M.W. Grand Master.

Bro. John C. Smith Past M.W. Grand Master.

Bro. John M. Pearson Past M.W. Grand Master.

Bro. Monroe C. Crawford Past M.W. Grand Master.

Bro. Owen Scott Past M.W. Grand Master.

Bro. Edward Cook Past M.W. Grand Master.

Bro. Charles F. Hitchcock Past M.W. Grand Master.

Bro. W. J. A. DeLancey Past R.JV. Deputy Grand Master.

Bro. Charles Fisher Past R.JV. Deputy Grand Master.

Bro. Henry E. Hamilton Past R.W. Senior Grand Warden.

R. W. DISTRICT DEPUTY GRAND MASTERS.

Bro. Henry McCall First District.

Bro. Robert R. Jampolis Second District.

Bro. Elmer E. Beach Third District.

Bro. J. L. Brewster Fourth District.

Bro. A. G. Everett Fifth District.

Bro. John W. Niles Sixth District.

Bro. D. D. Hunt Seventh District.

Bro. Jno. B. Fithian Eighth District.

Bro. Wm. D. Fullerton Ninth District.

Bro. T. Van Antwerp Tenth District.

Bro. J. S. Burns Eleventh District.

Bro. Emerson Clark Twelfth District.

Bro. C. T. Holmes Thirteenth District.

Bro. John C. Weis Fourteenth District.

Bro. W. N. Ewing Fifteenth District.

Bro. W. H. McClain Sixteenth District.

Bro. David E. Bruffett Seventeenth District.

Bro. C. F. Tenney Eighteenth District.

Bro. Frank Hudson Nineteenth District.

Bro. D. B. Hutchison Twentieth District.

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Bro. Chas. C. Marsh Twenty-first District.

Bro. Peter F. Clark Twenty-second District.

Bro. Jno. W. Rose Twenty-third District.

Bro. Rufus H. Smith Twenty-fourth District.

Bro. Anthony Doherty 'Twenty-fifth District.

Bro. William Montgomery Twenty-sixth District.

Bro. George S. Caughlan Twenty-seventh District.

Bro. J. M. Blrkhart Twenty-eighth District.

Bro. H. T. Goddard Twenty-ninth District.

Bro. J. W. Morris Thirtieth District.

REPRESENTATIVES OF OTHER GRAND LODGES.

Bro. C. E. Allen Alabama.

Bro. Monroe C. Crawford Arizona.

Bro. Roswell T. Spencer*. Arkansas.

Bro. Chas. F. Hichcock Connecticut.

Bro. George M. Moulton Cuba.

Bro. P. W. Barclay District of Columbia.

Bro. John C. Smith England.

Bro. John C. Smith Florida.

Bro. W. J. A. DeLancey Georgia.

Bro. Wellman M. Burbank Idaho.

Bro. Wm. B. Wright Indiana.

Bro. Delmar D. Darrah Indian Territory.

Bro. Thos. E. Miller Ireland.

Bro. Geo. M. Moulton Kansas.

Bro. Leroy A. Goddard Louisiana.

Bro. Chas. H. Brennan Maine.

Bro. H. R. Stewart Manitoba.

Bro. M. Bates Iott Maryland.

Bro. Joseph E. Dyas Michigan.

Bro. William Johnston Minnesota.

Bro. John C. Smith Mississippi.

Bro. G. A. Stadler Missouri.

Bro. A. B. Ashley Montana.

Bro. C. M. Forman Nebraska.

Bro. John C. Smith Nevada.

Bro. Henry E. Hamilton New Hampshire.

Bro. W. B. Grimes New Jersey.

Bro. Henry E. Hamilton Nezv Mexico.

Bro. W. A. Stevens Nezv York.

Bro. Roswell T. Spencer New South J Talcs.

Bro. John M. Pearson Nezv Zealand.

Bro. L. B. Dixon Nova Scotia.

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Bro. J. H. C. Dill Oklahoma.

Bro. John Johnston Quebec.

Bro. Joseph Robbins Scotland.

Bro. Elmer E. Beach South Carolina.

Bro. Alex. H. Bell Tennessee.

Bro. Edward Cook . . . . ' Texas.

Bro. Owen Scott Utah.

Bro. Amos. Pettibone Virginia.

Bro. Joseph Robbins Washington.

Bro. Gil. W. Barnard Wisconsin.

Bro. Roswell T. Spencer Victoria.

COMMITTEES.
Appeals and Grievances.

Bro. Monroe C. Crawford Jonesboro.

Bro. Joseph E. Dyas Paris.

Bro. W. S. Cantrell Benton.

Bro. Henry E. Hamilton Chicago.

Bro. Herbert Preston Chicago.

Chartered Lodges.

Bro. Jas. L. Scott Mattoon.

Bro. L. K. Byers Altona.

Bro. W. W. Watson Barry.

Bro. T. W. Wilson Springfield.

Bro. D. D. Darrah Bloomington.

Correspondence.
Bro. Joseph Robbins Quincy.

Credentials.

Bro. J. I. McClintock Carmi.

Bro. P. W. Barclay Cairo.

Bro. G. W. Cyrus Camp Point. ■

Finance.

Bro. Geo. M. Moulton Chicago.

Bro. Gil. W. Barnard Chicago.

Bro. Sam. W. Waddle Bloomington.

Grand Master's Address.

Bro. Wm. E. Ginther Charleston.

Bro. J. H. Mitchell Mt. Vernon.

Bro. Chas. H. Morreli Chicago.

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Lodges Under Dispensation.

Bro. Daniel J. Avery Austin.

Bro. 1 [. C. Mitchell Carbondale.

Bro. R. T. Spencer Chieago.

Bro. Jno. Johnston Chicago.

Bro. I. H. Todd East St. Louis.

Masonic Jurisprudence.

Bro. John M. Pearson Godfrey.

Bro. John C. Smith Chicago.

Bro. Owen Scott Decatur.

Bro. Edward Cook Chicago.

Bro. Ch as. F. Hitchcock Peoria.

Mileage and Per Diem.

Bro. Jno. A. Ladd Sterling.

Bro. W. F. Beck Olney.

Bro. G. W. Tipsword Beccher City.

Obituaries.

Bro. Elmer D. Brothers Chicago.

Bro. Frank W. Havill Mt. Cannel.

Bro. Sidney S. Breese Springfield.

Petitions.

Bro. C. M. Forman East St. Louis.

Bro. Ben Hagle Louisville.

Bro. Chas. G. Young Taylorville.

Railroads and Transportation.

Bro. J. O. Clifford Wheaton.

Bro. John Whitley Engleivood.

To Examine Visitors.

Bro. H. T. Burnap Upper Alton.

Bro. Isaac Cutter Camp Point.

Bro. Hugh A. Snell Litchfield.

Bro. M. B. Iott Evanston.

Bro. Chas. H. Martin Lawrenceville.

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Samuel Woods W.M.

Marshall R. Moore "

Truman P.Carter "

Abraham Trangott "

Fred M. Smith "

James S Baldwin « "

Charles M. Borchers* S. W.

H.F.Ward* J.W.

Herman H. Brown W.M.

Harman M. Hackman "

Victor McMurchy S. W.

Charles H. Brown W.M.

Eugene Stapp

Ferd A. Fisher "

H.K.Rule*

S. L. Walkins* S. W.

Cvrus BUi kley J. W.

William H. Bartels W.M.

J. B. Roach

Henry Christophesron. ... "

EnosJohnson "

George T. Davis "

A. D. Dancey "

I. ii. Gee* "

Peter* Seese... ...... '*

Charles B. Paviicek.....! '.'. S. W.

Charles B. Stafford J. W.

O. K. Garritt S. W.

Fred G. Hudson W M.

W. E. Ginther* J. W.

John C. McKenzie W.M.

D. Van Neeys "

C. L. Sandusky "

J. W. Hamilton S. W.

Charles Wesley Shaw W.M.

Samuel B. Bradford S. W.

Nimrod Mace W.M.

S. A. Huboard "

F. H. Farrand "

Albert L Gregory "

John M Walker "

John W. Raabe* "

John V. Sireed "

Stuart E. Pierson :

W. M. Neff

F. A. Neville "

A. L. Ward "

W. O. Weihe "

Arthur P. Casper S. W.

L. B. Tinder* W.M.

E. L. Willitts "

Matthew F. Perlet "

R. H.Maxwell* "

Hyram J. Dygert "

T.S.Browning '■

Alvin Scott, Jr "

C. E. Epley "

JohnG. Haage

K. E. Little S. W.

George D. Parkin W.M.

Stephen A. Douglass "

J.W.Armstrong "

E. H. Wilson*

James E. Wooters "

W. H. Slander S. W.

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Alvah L . Rogers W.M.

Robert E. Spoor S. W.

Ch irlesS. Whyte J. W.

T. E. AKop W.M.

Charles W. Dossell "

Julius C. Hertel "

E. B. Mitchell "

P. A. Gruuer "

P. E. Sauer

R. D. Clark "

George H. Schwing "

w . D. Abney "

C. D. Mowry "

C. Lamon ux S. W.

P.L.Hoffman J.W.

J. A. Helm S. W.

Charles M. Morton W.M.

Joseph Dobbs J. W.

W. P. Hall W.M.

J.A.James "

R. C. McCredie "

Wm. A C. Dunham "

ElijahMason "

Charles H. Spillman

E. E. David* "

W. r>. DeLany "

William E. Moffett "

Nels Kasmussen "

R. M. Riggs "

G.M.Saylor*

Hueh T. Williams

J. M. Hill "

J. H. Fulgbam "

D. Watson Grear "

N.W.Isaacson "

E. J. Glansev "

J. W. Gray.. S. W.

Elijah Shepherd W.M.

C. J. Wightman "

J P. Marshall "

OleHanson* "

C. F. Wemple "

G. A. D terding S. W.

W. S. Wilson..: W.M.

John Rav "

Luther F. Aldrich

E. G. Mulvev

Henry Patch "

W. T. Cable "

F. G. Capps "

Joe M. Mo row "

Ferdinand Salzmann "

H. W. Hill "

J. D. Shoemaker

A. C. Cliffe "

J.W.Jacobs "

J. B. Cato "

Sam M. Schoemann "

Lester Barber* "

F M. Mai-tiller "

William H. Rupe "

Robert S. D.tly "

C. A. Simington "

E. W. Lawtou* S. W

H. W. Booth J. W-

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REPRESENTATIVES OF LODGES.

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Frank E. Wright '

F. L. Babcock '

James E.Gray

James L. StaKer

J oh n J. McKibbin J

David L.Wright W

A. E. McKenzie '

H. R Budd '

O. C. Carson

C. E. Smith S.

Fred Brown* W

Emerson Hill S

John A. Burkhalter W

James D. Taylor

Frank A. Somers

John Evensou '

Julius Schoekel '

R.F.Morrow '

W. P. Askins '

J. B. Stout '

A O.Haines '

A.E.Elmore '

E. W. Scott '

Wm. W. Roberts '

John H. Bamberger '

Philip Flood '

George W. Smith

H B. Kezar* '

H. B. Kezar* S.

Wallace E Tucker W

Frank W.Wheeler '

James M. Bent J.

W. P. Wall W

Frank N. Jewett

W. M. Deckard

James C. Cooper J

F. W. Thomson W

A. J. Foot '

M. W. Morse '

H. L. Griffin '

J. M. Landis '

J.M.Eaton* '

George T. King S.

A. G. Morse W,

George F. Groff '

Fred Wiley '

James C. Mayor

Alsie N. Tolliver '

George W. McGlashen* S.

Fred L. Dressel W

Frank Brewer '

T. W. Gibson. '

Norman M. Rexford

Isaac Pancake '

H. P Pixley J.

( harles F. Preston W

Henry Sessel '

A. H. Evans

John Atkinson '

Oscar B. Conklin

Herman M. Schlossen S. W

William F. Wood J. W

Charles Everett Smith W.M

John McKeoun "

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J. M. VanHann* "

G.W.Schmidt* "

Ed Nigh •'

Wilson Turner "

Solomon G. Chanie S. W.

Frank C. Winkler W.M.

F.O.Jahr "

Herbert R. Ayton "

Harrison Reed* "

Jesse E. Reese "

George E. Myers "

B. N. McMullin "

L.C.Funk "

I.A.Foster "

H. D. Weaver S. W.

J. K. West W.M.

J. O. Oakman

J. W. Hemenwav "

T. H. Humphry* S. W.

H. M. Zurick* J. W.

George M. Cummings W.M.

T. F. Blankley "

W. F. Gibson

Edw. F. Tyrrell "

J. G. Stansfield "

Henry W. Berks

James N. Howell "

V. A. Wigren "

H. D. Herbert* J. W.

James H. McHenry W.M.

J. L. Boner "

JohnGoodwin "

H. C. Spurgeon "

F. W. Froelich "

John S. Abbott "

O. J. Hougham

Charlton L. Gregory S. W.

C. B. Warner W.M.

H. G. Logare "

W. H.Young "

John W. Marsh

P. B Linn "

E. M. McPherson "

Lew Gaskill "

Peter A. Rheinhard ".

F. M. Banker "

John W. Osman "

L.M.Morrison "

C. N. Vertrees "

L. E. Thomas J- W.

Thomas Moyer W.M.

A. Thies

S. P. Prescott S. W.

Wesley H. Holway W M.

T.W.Hall "

D. B. Bluett "

John H. Helm "

J.A.Miller. "

C. C. Wisher* S. W.

R. F.Taylor W.M.

Fred Lippert

George E. Stickney

R. D. Marsh S W.

W. S.Brown* W.M.

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FrankC.Paust "

A.Jones "

Sterling Cord S. W.

Robert Lee Cloud W.M.

A.E.Hamilton S. W.

Marion Kelly W.M.

CnarlesE. Saul* "

J.M.Cooper "

W. G. Abbott

Edgar Rodee "

W. E. Herbert "

I. P. Kilgore S. W.

Emmett Howard W.M.

D. W. Creppen S. W.

GeorgeGiynch W.M.

J. H. Bauder

E.A.Hill "

Lewis P. Voss S. W.

JamesKewlev* W.M.

W.A.Davidson "

George D. Bell ■■

Peter C.Gray "

Smyth Crooks S. W.

M. Dewitt McAlpine J. W.

A. L. Darling W.M.

William K. Forsyth* "

C.M.Eddy "

F. G. Farmer S. W.

C. A. Shipley J. W.

Charles U. Downey W.M.

A. T. Summers S. W.

T. W. Richards W.M.

C. D. Taylor* "

Edwin Whorrall S. W.

George A. Miller W.M.

George E. Carlson "

Frederick H. Burrell S. W.

W. C. Kempson W.M.

Fred C. Barnum "

R.W.Turner "

Charles S. Moore "

John B Lee S. W.

A. A. Adkisson W-M.

W.C. Stuckey "

John Greifzu '"

Cornelius Bye* "

John P. Springer "

C. H. Saxton "

C. H. Kammann "

Thomas N. Cummins

A. F. Stewart S. W.

W. J. Hubbard W.M.

Arthur M. Bloxam ■'

I.C.Duncan "

S. E. Brown* S. W.

E.W.Oliver "

T. N. Fleming W.M.

V. I. Ball "

W.M.Hanson "

J. H. Mickey J. W.

E. T. Leith W.M.

C. V. Gilmore "

A. H. Birch "

G.W. Moschel* "

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George W. Lawrence W.M.

Gerge W. Jones S. W.

LouisBraudes W.M.

W.H. Brosman "

D. A. Hewit "

H. A. Dean "

Sherman T. Henry

Peter W. Lill "

Joseph Pain er "

J.D.Hawls "

E.A.Wilson* S. W.

Louis A. Kaiser W.M.

Adam C. Stadler "

O. H. Woodworth "

H. H. Sherwood "

Thomas E. Brown "

B. W. Vandine "

G. Charles Koehnlein* "

S. J. Hobbs "

M. Bloomingdale "

J T. Corliss "

Charles E. Gabriel "

S. F. McBride "

Richard Boston, "

Frank E. Dayton "

E. N. Cook "

Harry R. Retman "

C. E. Cullison "

A.J.Brown "

W.J.Martin "

C.R.Mitchell "

J. E. Hartleb "

J. W. Heckethorn

W.E.Anderson "

W. G. W. Haslam J. W.

Charles E. Miner W.M.

Arthur N. Beals

C. L. Beals* S. W.

Albert Krausse W.M.

W. W. Lowe "

John F. Taylor ''.

E.M.Vaughn* "

H. G. Burgess

W. Y. McLemore S. W.

Charles B. Briggs W.M.

Hiram Hennon "

Jacob Frey

W. A. Tweedy "

Henry Steinbock "

Ulysses J. Grim "

George F. Francis* J. W.

Arthur Welding S. W.

Clarence M. Briggs W.M.

Lester W. Lamoree "

J P. Irwin "

Williard M. Churchill "

Nathan Fleming* S. W.

Louis G. Joseph W.M.

U. S. Cavitt "

W. J. Emerson

S. H. Lesch "

William G. Lesch* S. W.

Charles H. Ireland* J. W.

Alexander S. Irvine W.M.

James W. Dunlap S. W.

♦Proxy.

12

Proceedings oj the

[Oct. 4,

REPRESENTATIVES OF LODGES.

422
423

42 1
426
4*7
428

429
430
431
432
433
434
436
437
440
441
442
443
444
445

446
447
448
449
450
451
453
454
455
456
458
460
461
463

464
465
466
467
468
469
470
471
472
473
174
475
476
477
478

479
481

48 S
484
485
486
487
488
1*9
490

Richard G. Trotters J. W.

Edwin M. Tallman W.M.

Jarrtt s A. Hammond* J. W.

C. N. Priest W.M.

John Fanning

John J. Fox '•

U ailace Parker

W. E. Henning S. W.

Burt E. Burroughs W.M.

J. E. Wilson "

Frank Howsmon "

John T. Warcup "

Edwin Everett. Jr "

Oliver McKeuzie "

Julius Linke "

Jacob M. Loeb "

FraukCooch* J. W.

T. E. liapen W.M.

W. W. Bruce "

Frank Channing "

Fred. Schultze "

John J. Leach "

S. H. Huffman J. W.

Edgar B. Elder* W.M.

N. F. Lindsay J. W.

M. W. Thomson S. W.

G. F. Warner W.M.

John Lowry "

George Huchinson

George H. Ellis "

W.T.McLean "

C. B. McKinney

D. H. Zepp "

H. J. Fuller J. W.

Waterman Bestow W.M.

R. M. Tavlor "

C. S. Mahan "

F. E. Dopheide S. W.

H. D. Seigfreid W.M.

George Burmood "

R.H.Lawrence •'

Amos A. Anderson "

George L. Jackson "

W.W.Harris "

W. A. Pfeiffer "

P. L. Hoadley S. W.

A. L. Hamilton* W.M.

N. P. Nilsson "

H. Reichenbach "

S. Z. T. Ratcliff "

James A. McComas "

William E. Jo es S.W.

Thomas E. Koser W.M.

Thomas Cerncy S. W.

Joseph Hodek J. W.

Albert J. Wrigley W.M.

Charles B. Astle

A. H. Scrogin "

Joseph Danks "

T. W. Kepley

J. H. Cross "

George W. Willard "

W. F. Dransfield "

L. C. Stewart "

H. E. Gemmill "

491
493
495
496

497
498
5i )0
501
502
503

504
505
506

508

509
510
512
514
516
517
518
519
520
521

523
521
525

526

528
529
530
531

532

533
534
535

536
537
538
539
541
542
543
544
547
550
552
554
555
556
557

George Fleischman W.M.

J. L. Cannon

U. S. Spears "

H. L. Burford "

Men dun Rice* S. W.

W. H. Stephens W.M.

Harris Levy

George Crocker S. W.

E. S. Leport W.M.

F T. Pritchard S. W.

F. J. Boving W.M.

Charles E. Sloan S. W.

J. L. Woodruff W.M.

C. E. Oakes ■'

J. B. Salkeld "

H. M. Whiteman S. W.

H. Whiteman* J. W.

Louis J. Frahm WT.M.

1> . K. Benninaton S. W.

F. W. Bleike I. W.

F. M.Rash W.M.

J. A. Hindman "

E. D Salisoury "

R. H. Devo '«

Charles Wenks* "

John K. Milnor*

A.E.Billings* "

W. A. Car-r "

W.Henderson "

W. M. Close "

R. T. Spencer* S.W.

D. W. Reid W.M.

C. F. Crafts S.W.

F. W. Sabine W.M.

John B. Howdish

F. J. Davis "

Frank L. Gerwig "

David Mahaffey S. W

W. H. Dellenback J. W.

W. A. Thav er W.M.

J. Perry Journey

G. G. Shearer "

L.T.Moore "

J. M. Trostle S.W.

C. H. R. Thomas W.M.

Charles J. Shaw* S.W.

Fred Naumer W.M.

George M. Heller

S.H.Calloway "

G. H. Wayne* J. W.

A. E. Mottinger W.M.

E. E.Crow "

F.S. Hutton "

Philip Sampson

J. B Singer

Samuel Marsh "

Charles Sallows* "

J. A. MeG'>e "

Thomas R. Lees

Paul C. Bacon

W. S. Ramsay* "

P. M. Kindesbacher "

Fred A. Hatheway

John McGinnis

Philip Maas* "

♦Proxy.

1904]

Grand Lodge of Illinois.

13

REPRESENTATIVES OF LODGES.

558

559
560
562
564
565
566
567
569
570
572
571
575
576
577

578
580
581
582

583

584
585
587
588
590
591
592
595
600
601
602
603
604
607
608

609
610

611
612
613
614
6!6
617
618
619
620
622
623
627
630
631
632
633
634
635
636
639
641
642

William Julian W.M.

J. G. Aleth-Hanson* S. W.

Roy J Houghton

Robert Alsop W.M.

Hall Whiteaker "

Samuel Sinclair "

W. E. Bybee "

Louis Hoobler J. W.

D. B. Garland W.M.

C. E. B.tgby "

A. M. Hallowell "

W.W.Hendricks '■

M. H. shinker

W. R. Harriett "

Theodore Schilling "

Grover Harrison "

B. B. Patterson* J. W.

James M. Hilton W.M.

MontSturts

Thomas N. Henley "

J. A. Hougham "

B. B. Million* S.W.

L. Blattner W.M.

George Sanderson "

Norton E. Porter "

Fred Lehman "

Fred Campbell "

George W. Shultz

G.L.Harris

E.K.Brown "

D. W. Chamberlin "

J. M. Htrlan J. W.

J. W. Lackey W.M.

George T. Austin '•

O. M. Mauk "

W.M.Miller "

C.G.Austin "

John F. Earl "

William Dick* S.W.

George S. Hummer* W.M.

John T. Randall '■

Gustav R. Lott* S.W.

S. M. Major* J. W.

W. G. Nourse S.W.

W.P.Benson W.M.

J. M. Smith* "

Joseph R. Ives "

Charles R. Wawne "

G. A. Lackens "

J B.Elder S.W.

P. H. Shelton W.M.

JamesSnyoer "

Joseph Fishel* "

George Ritsche •'

A. H. Brooks "

JohnW.McGhee "

D. B. Keighin "

C. M. Harrold "

P. R. Copeland "

Edwin Hull "

JamesM. Bell "

James Barnhart S. W.

Louis A. Becker W.M.

M H. Hand "

Benj. M. Lovell "

612
613

644
645

646
647
648

651
653
v>55
656
657
658
659
660
662

664
665
666

667
668

670
672
673
674
675
676
677
679
680
681

682
683
684
685
686
687

691
692
693
695
696
697
698
700
701
702
704
705
706
709

Andrew Adams ; S.W.

Leroy K. Cornell...' J. W.

Elmer C. Duensing W M.

Richard F. Hausen S W.

William I.. Fredericks J. W.

Charles W. Griffy W.M.

James W. Arington "

Chris Suppes "

C. A. Prater "

Frederick Hester "

Nicholas Notson S. W.

Everett Cady* J. W.

W.E.Carroll* W.M.

James O. McKee

WillC. Stilson* "

Jacob Winter "

C.D.Gardiner "

C. I. Pederson "

W. M. Coble "

J.M.Jones "

G. A. Larsen "

C. P. N Tnomsen S.W.

J. Gassman* W M.

Benton Tips word" "

J. T. Athey "

William Smith "

George E. Jessup. "

John Bade "

GustavSchaetz S.W.

William J. Krase J. W.

R.J.Wright W.M.

E. S. Barger

R G. Bright "

M. Wingerning "

H. E. Farnam "

Morton T. Culver "

John N. Wilson "

William H. Elliott "

Charles E. Knorr .. "

James P. King "

H. F. Stout S.W.

C. L. Montgomery* W.M.

M. C. Howd "

T M. Johnson "

G. W. Ernst "

Oscar H. Ahrens "

A. C. Ebel J. W.

N. T. Stevens W.M.

Alfred Guthrie "

A. C. Kesler S.W.

Nathan Tubbs J. W.

Mathew H. Patrick S. W.

P. J. Hermon W.M.

D. D. Williams S. W.

H.Shaw W.M.

W. R. Ross "

A. J. Kelso J. W.

Z.C.Jones W.M.

W. H. Dorand "

H.C.Green "

Fred H. Blaynev "

Albert H. Wheaton.

John W. Hill S.W

F. L. Heath W.M.

Charles R. Finley

*Proxy.

14

Proceedings of the

LOct. 4,

REPRESENTATIVES OF LODGES.

710
711
712
713
714

715
716
717

718
719
7:21
7x2
723
724
725
726

727
728
729
730
731
732
733
734
735
738
739
741
743
743
741
745
746
747
748
749
750
752
754
756

757

758

759
761
763
764

765

766
767

William H. Hutchins S. W.

H.M. Hansen W.M.

W. E. Hadley

E.M.Turner "

A. J. Davis

J. M. Francis S. W.

J. M. Van Allen J. W.

Ed. F. Jolidon W.M.

Alden P. Peirce. "

Robert E. McCloy "

V. J. Fuller S.W.

E. A. Peterson J. W.

C.W.Hart W.M.

I. N. Lentz "

R.F.Casey "

A. E. Burress "

M. S.Randolph* "

H.J.Anderson "

B.R.Cole* •'

William J. Downey "

Fred A.Pennington S.W.

Henry A. Holloway J- W.

Willam Cavins W.M.

W. T. Wiltberger

R. S. Frick "

D. L.Wood "

L.M.Randolph* "

James Edmonds "

W.A.Hoover "

George W. Brant

W. H. Bernard ... "

P. H. Lannon "

Eben Julian Beach "

James Peters ■'

M. B. Munsell "

J. Frank Jennings "

John B. Martin "

Clarence P. Coolldge "

V. C. Swigart "

Edward Wimmer "

Jay Fry e S.W.

George H. Flanigan* W.M.

P.C.Riley "

J.W.Smith "

James Scott "

Leonard Houston "

George P. Mann S. W.

Fred Hurford W M.

William Ashcroft

Charles F. Worner S. W.

W. W. Reid W M.

W. W. Porter* "

O. Bigelow "

F. E. Pifer* "

James A. Steele* S. W.

Frank J. Page W.M.

HenryW.Rath S.W.

Fred W. Boe J W.

John W. Lambert W.M.

Arthur F. Hanson

A.C.McKay "

C. F. Lining S. W.

D. E. Meyer J. W.

George W. Bledsoe W.M.

Frederick A. Crave

771

772
773

774

776

777

778
779

782
783
784
786
7S7
7SS
789
790
791

792
793
794
795

796
797

8'0
802
803
804

805
806
807
808
809
810
811
812
813

814

816
8 7
818

820
821
822
823

824

825

826

C. A. Golden W.M.

O. A. Wise "

J. V. Champion

John Nelson "

C. M. White "

L. E. Simons S. W.

Perry J. Ford W.M.

R. C. G. Schultz S.W.

R. P. Church J. W.

J. H. Harden "

Edwin J. Mosser W.M.

W. O. Dicus S. W.

H. M. Luckey W.M.

Charles Unverzagt "

Alfred Hall "

WilliamT.Ham "

C.W. Hartman "

W. H. Cassady "

George G. Fisher J. W.

Warren I. Henley W.M.

D. P. Mclntyre "

E. T. Telling S.W.

James H. DeLong W.M.

Clark Harrold* "

F. C. Karber "

Dexter A. Smith "

Richard C. Faunt S. W.

Harry H. Flinn J. W.

F. P Armstrong W.M.

George H. Parker

O.L.Etmer S.W.

J. B. Chamberlain J. W.

William G.Cathcart W.M.

WilliamGaddis "

James H.Prothero

W. H. Perry "

C. M. Carpenter

C J. Kuyper "

H. Vanderb It S.W.

W. A Fowler W.M.

J. V. Pinkerton "

John B McGayer

C. F. Lanham* "

Jacob M. Kimbro "

C. D. Hiller "

C. O. McMann J. W.

J. H. Wood W.M.

J. C. Clemmenen "

Alfred Fox S. W.

U. B. Miller J. W.

P. P. Michael W.M.

W. J. Blackard "

J.W.Burnett "

W. H. Blencoe "

A.N. Engel J. W.

Fred Simcrough* W.M.

M. D. Massie "

J. E. Holt "

G.W.Dow "

M. W. Hooker* S.W.

John O. Olsen W.M.

C. E. Graves S. W.

M. D.Hunt I. W.

A.J. Maxwell W.M.

A. E. Stiles "

♦Proxy.

1904J

Grand Lodge of Illinois.

15

REPRESENTATIVES OP LODGES.

NO.

1
NAMES.

NO.

NAMES

827

.... W.M.

850

852

853
854

855

856
857
858

859
860
861
862
863

864
865

866

867

868
869

870

H. A. Baldwin

W.M.

829

T. O Wilson*

E. W. Cannady

A. J. Pease

S w

830

W. D. Miller "

J. W

831

S. B. Perry* "

W M

832
833

Lloyd A. Dalton "

s. W.
W.M.

834
835
836

G. D. Leach

F. Kohl

Everett E. Buchan

s. w.

W.M.

Thomas Rankin*

Thomas Rankin*

S. W.
J. w.

W.M

E. E. Armstrong

W. G. French

C. L. Watson

W. D. Holmes

s. w.
, J. w.

W.M.

Charles L. Wood •'

I. N. Miner* "

83T

838

N. J. Cary

C. A. Collins*

George V. Lichtenberger.
Perry B. Schreiner

. s. w

839
840

George H. Anderson

C. B. Holcomb

William H. Bied

M. G . Matteson*

F. M. Pierce*

s. w.

J. w.
.... W.M.

. W.M.

841

A. E. Eisele

F. S. McClory

William Gardner

. J. w.

W.M.

842

Albert Davis*

Charles P. Man waring

A. I. Porges,

Charles Ferguson

John F. Stockert

Alber Roullier

. s. W.

843

844

Martin E. Nelson

C. P. Abbey

T. A. Lawson

s. W.

W.M.

s. W.

, : j. w.

WM.
S. W.
J. W.
W.M.
S W

845
846

Thomas W. Mayo*

E. D. Beird

R. L. Taylor

E. E. Taylor*

W. T. Shreves

W.M.

, s. w.

W.M.
s. W.

.... W.M.

J. W.
. W.M.

847
848

W. H. Baker

H. M. Cornell

John W. Barker

W.G. Wilson

S. W.

849

J w

J. B. Flannery*

.... J. w.

*Proxy.

RECAPITULATION.

Grand Officers 20

Past Grand Officers not otherwise enumerated 2

Representatives of other Grand Lodges not otherwise enumerated.. 7

District Deputy Grand Masters 30

Members of Committees 46

Representatives of Lodges 845

Total 950

Number of Lodges represented 709

All of which is fraternally submitted,

J. I. McClintock,
P. W. Barclay,
Geo. W. Cyrus,

Committee.
Tuesday, October 4, A. D. 1904, A. L. 5984.

16 Proceedings of the [Oct. 4,

ADDRESS-Of the M. W. Grand Master.

The M. W. Grand Master then delivered his annual ad-
dress, as follows :

Brethren of the Grand Lodge:

Another year with its lights and shadows, its hopes and disappoint-
ments, its triumphs and its failures, has glided into the silent irreclaimable
past, and you, the chosen ^representatives of the seventy thousand five
hundred Masons of this Grand Jurisdiction, have assembled to review and
pass judgment upon the record of a twelve-month, and make provision for
another period of like duration.

I welcome you most heartily to a participation in the deliberations of
this meeting, the sixty-fifth Annual Communication of this Most Worship-
ful Grand Lodge, and congratulate you upon the peace, harmony and
good-fellowship prevailing among the members and constituent lodges
here represented.

A gracious Providence has smiled upon us and ours. The indulgent
earth has brought forth abundantly. The state and nation are blessed with
plenty, and wherever the distribution of the rich gifts of nature has been
marked with justice, joy and contentment obtain.

The year just closed has been a busy one; each day has brought its
duties and its cares, its pleasures and its sadness. Much work has been
done, and I now submit to you so much of it as seems important and of
general interest to the craft.

NECROLOGY.

Before proceeding to render an account of my stewardship I pause to
make a record of the names of those who have fallen from our ranks, so
far as I am able from the information at hand. Relentless death has in-
vaded many of our sister jurisdictions and garnered a goodly number of
distinguished craftsmen.

ARIZONA: Charles Clarence Warner, Past Deputy Grand Master of
the M. W. Grand Lodge of Arizona, lost his life in a mine accident at
Bisbee, Arizona, June 14, 1904. He was a native of Illinois.

1904] Grand Lodge of Illinois. 17

ARKANSAS : George E. Dodge, Past Grand Master of the M. W. Grand
Lodge of Arkansas, died at his home in Little Rock, Ark., February 6,
1904.

COLORADO: George T. Cooper, Deputy Grand Master of the M. W.
Grand Lodge of Colorado, departed this life at Denver, June 20, 1904.

FLORIDA: William Forsyth Bynum, Past Grand Master of the M. W.
Grand Lodge of Florida, died at his home in Live Oak, May 9, 1904.
Warren Tyler, Junior Grand Warden of the M. W. Grand Lodge of
Florida, died at his home in Bartow, Florida, December 21, 1903.

MAINE: Joseph Alva Locke, Past Grand Master of the M. W. Grand
Lodge of Maine, died April 21, 1904, at his home in Portland, Me.

MICHIGAN : Arthur M. Clark, Past Grand Master of the M. W. Grand
Lodge of Michigan, died October 26, 1903.

MONTANA: Samuel Word, Past Grand Master of the M. W. Grand
Lodge of Montana, died September 24, 1903, at his home in Helena.

NEBRASKA : Roland Hector Oakley, Past Grand Master of the M. W.
Grand Lodge of Nebraska, died in Denver, Colorado, February 2, 1904.

NEW JERSEY: Charles Belcher, Past Grand Master of the M. W.
Grand Lodge of New Jersey, died at his home in Newark, N. J., Feb-
ruary 20, 1904.

NOVA SCOTIA: Charles John Macdonald, Past Grand Master of the
M. W. Grand Lodge of Nova Scotia, died October 12, 1903.

OHIO: S. Starker Williams, Past Grand Master of the M. W. Grand
Lodge of Ohio, died at Newark, Ohio, April 3, 1904

SOUTH DAKOTA: Charles Albert Fisher, Senior Grand Warden of
the M. W. Grand Lodge of South Dakota, died at Aberdeen, S. D.,
July 9, 1904.

TEX'AS : A. J. Rose, Past Grand Master of the M. W. Grand Lodge of
Texas, died at his home in Salado, Tex., December 13, 1903.

VERMONT: Myron J. Horton, Junior Grand Warden of the M. W.
Grand Lodge of Vermont, died January 7, 1904.

18 Proceedings of the [Oct. 4,

WISCONSIN: Gabriel Bouch, Past Grand Master of the M. W. Grand
Lodge of Wisconsin, died at his home in Oshkosh, Wis., February 21,
1904.

WEST VIRGINIA : Wm. H. H. Flick, Past Grand Master of the M. W.
Grand Lodge of West Virginia, died at his home in Martinsburg,
W. Va., June 7, 1904.

To those thus bereaved we tender our sincere and fraternal sympathy
and condolence.

Our own Grand Lodge has been called upon to mourn the loss of one
of its active and honored members, R. W. Bro. Wm. H. Lathrop, Junior
Grand Deacon of this Grand Lodge, was "called from labor to refresh-
ment," December 7, 1903. It was my sad privilege to personally conduct
his funeral, the large attendance at which was a striking testimony of the
high esteem in which he was held by his brethren, and to the universal
respect and regard he had won among his friends and neighbors.

On February 3, 1904, R. W. Bro. George O. Friedrich, D. D. G. M.
for the Fourteenth Masonic District, died at his home in Chillicothe, 111.
His funeral which occurred February 7, 1904, was largely attended. Brother
Friedrich was known and admired by many of you and his loss is and
will be deeply felt by his lodge, his District and the Fraternity.

Including the two names last above mentioned the returns from the
several lodges show that during the last fiscal year ninety-seven of our
brethren, each of whom had been called to preside in the East, have made
the journey o'er death's dark river. As a token of our appreciation of the
services rendered by them, and of our sympathy for those who have most
keenly felt their loss let us stand in silence while the list is read.

J. H. HIBBARD

Elected M.W. Grand Master 1856

NAME

LODGE

DIED

Seibel Delano Talcott

October 29, 1903.

Josephus Pirkey

ChenoaNo. 292

January 10, 1904.
November 6, 1903.

Shabbona No. 374

July 4, 1903.

Daniel Westervelt

Home No. 508

February 27, 1904.

Francis S. Belden

January 7, 1904.

Louis Kistler

Evans No. 524

May 27, 1904.

Bridgeport No. 386

May 5, 1904.
February 21, 1904.

C H.Kendall

Chas. H. BrandeDburg. ..

Eureka No 69

November 26, 1903.

Eureka No. 69

Newton No. 216

April 29, 1904.
December 7, 1903.

Thomas B. Bent

Garden City No. 141

December 28, 1903.

Lewis L. Wadsworth

Garden City No. 141

January 26, 1904.

Richard L. Organ

Arthur E. Shaffer

Plymouth No 286

July 2), 1903*
May 2, 1904.
November 1, 1903.
April 5, 1904.
November 30, 1903.
June 29, 1904.

Pleiades No . 478

Pleiades No. 478

Herder No. 669

Golden Rule No. 726

Richard A Jeffery

William T. Barton

George 0. Friedrich

Robert W. Milar

William Juda Frisbee

Samuel H. Blane

John S. Wolfe

Rockport No. 830

Geo. Washington No. 222..

Raven No. 303

Annawan, No. 433

August 8, 1903.
February 3, 1904.
July 11, 1903.
August 2, 1903.
December 30, 1903.
September 26, 1903.
June 17, 1904.
June 23, 1904.
January 31, 1904.
November 18, 1903.
April 26, 1904.
March 11, 1904.
August 14, 1903.
January 25, 1904.
May 11. 1904.
July 18, 1903.
April 18, 1904.

T. J. Pickett No. 307

Clinton No 19

BahCO No. 618

Ashlar No. 308

Dunlap No. 321

Fairview No. 350

Chester No. 72

Fidelity No. 152

WaldeckNo. 674

Tower Hill No 493

Oak Park No. 540

Edwin J. Congar

Matthias B. Swegk

William Hartzell

Franklin B. Simpson

James K. P. McCullough..
Marvin Luther Jackson. . .

Wm. C. Hobbs No. 306

November 20 1903.

Wm C. Hobbs No 306

May 20, 1904.
January 17, 1904.
June 18, 1904.
January 11, 1904.
September 20. 1903.
January 16, 1901.
January 4, 1904.

Calumet No. 716

Buda No. 399

John A. Gaar

G. W. Staley

K askaskia No. 86

A. T. Darrah No. 793

David M. Hough tlin. , , .

Jersey ville No. 394

LaMoille No. 383

Robinson No. 250

Lexington No. 482

April 23, 1904.
May 9, 1904.
April 7, 1904.
October 23, 1903.

John Harper Fulton

WillamSkelly

R. L. McReynolds

Roseville No 519

August 3, 1903.

NAME

LODGE

DIED

Onarga No. 305

Clay No. 153

Clay No. 153

Clay No. 153

Somonauk No. 646

Apollo No. 642

Morrisonville No. 681

Harbor No. 731

Litchfield No. 517

Olive Branch No. 38

Olive Branch No. 38

Central No. 71

Orangeville No. 687

Sept. 18, 1903.
October 16, 1903.
October 10, 1903.
May 24, 1904
February 15, 190J.
January 7, 1904.
January 18, 1904.
June 1, 1904.
July 28, 1903.
April 29. 1904.
September 20, 1903.
August 1, 1903.
December 22, 1903.
March 6, 1904.
November 23, 1903.
March 5, 1901.
July 7, 1903.
November 23, 1903.
July 28, 1903.
August 2. 1903.
March 2, iy04.
February 12, 1904.
June 17. 1904.
January 15, 1904.
February 14, 1904.
October 26, 1903.
April 25, 1904.
March 21, 1904.
December 17. 1903.
April 3, 1901.
July 4, 1903.
August 8, 1903.
October 8, 1903.
November 3, 1903.
December 13, 1903.
September 22, 1903.
January 24, 1904.
February 15, 1904.
March, 1904.
February 9, 1904.
February 27, 1904.
January 5, 1904.
November 8, 1903.
October 2. 1S03.
July 7, 1903.
December 24, 1903.
February 19. 1904.

Jonas 1 hon

William H. Miller

Ebenezer R. Danforth

Hiram W. Beckwith

L. W Reed

James Musser

Loton S. Manville

Frank Huxley Smith

S. M. Gentry

Farina No. 601

S. D. Monroe No. 447 . .. .

Bunker Hill No. 151

Elgin 117

Charles S. Richards

Fred S. Orton

Chebanse No. 429

J. L.Anderson No 318.. .

Versailles No. 108

Charter Oak No. 236

BUzingStarNo. 458

Richard Johnson Grigson

B. F. Furlong

W. A. Goodrich

George W. Culver

M. H. Smith

Josiah W. Willis

David Martin Wieder

Seth L. Jenkins

Cedar No. 124

Cedar No. 124

IolaNo. 691

Meteor No. 283

Manchester No. 229

Manchester No. 229

Woodhull No. 502

Paris No. 268

Rockton No 74

Horicon No. 244

DeWittNo. 84

John D. Moody No. 510

OquawkaNo. 123

Kensington No. 804

Lewistown No. 104

Vermi nt No. 116

Hibbard No. 249

Crete No. 763

Edward A. Ward

A. H. C. Barber

John Campbell

Miles Austin Grafton..

Frank Stewart

PhiloH. Zeigler

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To this long list I add the name of one brother who, while he never
served his lodge as Master, was a distinguished member of the bar, the
bench and of congress. Thomas Foster Tipton died at his home in Bloom-
ington, 111., February 7, 1904.

These constant reminders of our mortality are well calculated to cause
us to lay more count upon the years to come ; to strengthen our resolu-
tions of better living and higher achievement ; and while we cherish the
memory of the departed whose spirits are in the hands of Him who doeth
all things well, they should and do bring us to a higher appreciation of the
value of the friends and brethren with whom we are yet permitted to
mingle, and inspire us with an earnest desire to more securely weld the
friendships left to us.

APPOINTMENTS AND INSTALLATION OF GRAND OFFICERS.

On October 26, 1903, W. Bro. Emil Espen, as my proxy, installed
R. W. Bro. Joseph Stolz as Grand Chaplain, in Chicago Lodge No. 437.

On November 4, 1903, W. Bro. E. E. Cox, as my proxy, installed
R. W. Bro. Wm. A. Northcott into the office of Grand Orator, in Green-
ville Lodge No. 245.

On November 26, 1903, M. W. Bro. Monroe C. Crawford, as my
proxy, installed R. W. Bro. William H. Peak as Grand Standard Bearer,
in Jonesboro Lodge No. in.

On May 5, 1904, I appointed R. W. Bro. Norman A. Mesnard, Junior
Grand Deacon, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of R. W. Bro. Wm.
H. Lathrop, and on the 25th day of June, 1904, R. W. Bro. James M. Wil-
lard, as my proxy, duly installed him into that office in Blue Mound Lodge
No. 682.

DISTRICT DEPUTY GRAND MASTERS.

Immediately after the close of the Grand Lodge last year I appointed
and commissioned the following brethren as District Deputy Grand Mas-
ters in and for the districts indicated :

District No. 1, Henry McCall; No. 2, Robert R. Jampolis ; No. 3, El-
mer E. Beach; No. 4, J. L. Brewster; No. 5, A. G. Everett; No. 6, John
W. Niles ; No. 7, D. D. Hunt ; No. 8, John B. Fithian ; No. 9, William D.
Fullerton; No. 10, T. Van Antwerp; No. 11, J. S. Burns; No. 12, Emer-
son Clark; No. 13, C. T. Holmes; No. 14, G. O. Friedrich ; No. 15, Wm.
N. Ewing ; No. 16, W. H. McClain ; No. 17, David Elliot Bruffett ; No. 18,
C F. Tenney; No. 19, Frank Hudson; No. 20, D. B. Hutchison; No. 21,
Chas. C. Marsh; No. 22, P. F. Clark; No. 23, John W. Rose; No. 24, Rufus

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H. Smith; No. 25, Anthony Doherty; No. 26, William Montgomery; No.
27, Geo. S. Caughlan; No. 28, J. M. Burkhart; No. 29, H. T. Goddard;
No. 30, J. W. Morris.

The death of Bro. George O. Friedrich caused a vacancy in the Four-
teenth District which was filled by the appointment of R. W. Bro. John C.
Weis, February 12, 1904.

The reports of these officers have been received and show a most grat-
ifying condition in each of the several districts.

The services rendered by them have been eminently satisfactory and
highly appreciated. Their several reports appear in the appendix hereto
and should be perused by every member of this Grand Lodge.

In this connection I desire to call your attention to the fact that
Hutton Lodge No. 698, has for a number of years been situated in Cum-
berland county which is in the Twenty-fourth District, and that it has been
listed among the lodges belonging to the Seventeenth District. I recom-
mend that it hereafter appear in accordance with the fact as being in the
Twenty-fourth District.

Immediately after the close of the last session of the Grand Lodge,
upon the unanimous recommendation of the Board of Grand Examiners, I
commissioned the following brethren on October 8, 1903, as Deputy Grand
Lecturers :

C. E. Allen, Galesburg; C. Rohrbough, Kinmundy; W. B. Grimes,
Pittsfield ; G. O. Friedrich, Chillicothe; James Douglass, Chester; I. H.
Todd, East St. Louis; Charles F. Tenney, Bement; C. E. Grove, Mt. Car-
roll ; A. B. Ashley, La Grange ; D. B. Hutchison, Jacksonville ; James John,
Chicago; D. D. Darrah, Bloomington; John W. Rose, Litchfield; H. S.
Albin, Chicago ; H. S. Hurd, Chicago ; Arthur G. Goodridge, Irving Park ;
J. R. Ennis, Burnt Prairie ; S. M. Shoemann, McLeansboro ; J. H. C. Dill,
Bloomington ; W. K. Bowling, Virden ; G. A. Stadler, Decatur ; R. F.
Morrow, Virden; John E. Morton, Perry; J. G. Seitz, Upper Alton; W. O.
Butler, La Harpe; Charles G. Young, Taylorville ; W. E. Ginther, Charles-
ton; Emerson Clark, Farmington; Owen Scott, Decatur; W. M. Burbank,
Chicago; T. H. Humphries, DuQuoin ; Samuel G. Jarvis, Victoria; James
McCredie, Earlville ; R. H. Wheeler, Chicago ; S. S. Borden, Chicago ;
L. J. Amsden, Chicago; W. H. Peak, Jonesboro; R. W. King, Chicago;
P. F. Clark, Girard; E. E. Beach, Chicago; J. B. Randleson, East Gales-
burg; W. H. Robson, Chicago; Herbert Preston, Chicago; Louis Becker,
Knoxville ; Enos Johnson, Upper Alton ; R. L. Evarts, Knoxville ; C. N.
Hambleton, Jeffersonville ; E. E. Wise, Greenville; H. C. Yetter, Gales-
burg; H. W. Harvey, Chicago; Carl Swigart, Weldon; J. H. Morrow, Chi-
cago ; G. A. Lackens, Good Hope ; F. H. Morehouse, Chicago ; O. A. No-
vander, Chicago; F. J. Burton, Chicago; C. C. Marsh, Bowen; I. A. Fos-

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ter, New Haven; J. B. Roach, Beardstown; C. M. Babbitt, Chicago; J. S.
Burns, Orion; S. M. Frankland, Chicago; W. F. SinClair, Upper Alton;
D. E. Bruffett, Urbana ; T. N. Cummins, Reevesville ; C. B. Ward, Rock
Island; Louis Pickett, Pullman; J. G. Huntoon, Rock Island; Anthony
Doherty, Clay City ; A. H. Scrogin, Lexington ; Charles T. Holmes, Gales-
burg ; G. R. Smith, Bloomington ; Geo. D. Bell, Bushnell ; J. H. Griffiths,
Downers Grove ; George S. Doughty, Bushnell ; A. Jampolis, Chicago ;
C. P. Ross, Jacksonville; J. M. Willard, Decatur; Lawrence C. Johnson,
Galva ; W. A. Dixon, Decatur ; Archibald Birse, Chicago ; Geo. M. Abbott,
Chicago ; Edward Bogardus, Chicago ; Edward W. Peterson, Chicago ;
F. M. Pendleton, Quincy; Albert Davis, Chicago; Albert Rouillier, Chi-
cago ; Henry E. Van Loon, Chicago ; E. C. Rohrer, Waverly ; William M.
Coble, Quincy; E. D. Brothers, Chicago; Louis Ladewich, Chicago;
Charles E. Slagle, Abingdon ; L. B. Dyer, Chicago ; E. W. Eggman, East
St. Louis; N. M. Mesnard, Boody; A. William West, Abingdon; John C.
Weis, Peoria ; Adam Schmidt, Chicago ; R. H. Gulley, Chicago ; Frank
Hudson, Springfield ; William Balhatchet, Chicago.

And thereafter upon like recommendations commissions were issued
to the following brethren :

Will C. Stillson, Tampico; Jacob M. Schollenberger, Chicago; Harry
C. Michels, Flora; Charles J. Wightman, Grays Lake; Alfred Hall, Chi-
cago; Peter C. Gray, Chicago; William Gardner, Chicago; William H.
Bied, Chicago; William Rothmann, Chicago; Emmett Howard, Quincy;
Jacob Lyon Woodruff, East St. Louis ; John Millard Hederick, Chatham ;
Walter Edward Anderson, Chicago; Henry A. Eidson, Willow Hill; Jo-
siah Marvin Hannum, Lostant ; Nehemiah Beatty Carson, Bloomington ;
Reuben Gentry Bright, Normal ; Warren Sedgwick Welsh, Chenoa ; Nim-
rod Mace, Bloomington ; Daniel W. Starr, Raymond ; George Edward
Carlson, Moline; David Richard, Chicago Lawn; Louis J. Frahm, Chicago;
Charles Ferguson, Chicago.

This array of brethren, all qualified to teach, furnishes abundant proof
that there is no decrease among the members of the Fraternity in interest
in the standard work.

REVENUE

I have received for Dispensations issued the following:

Free Will Lodge $ ioo oo

Standard Lodge ioo oo

Modesto Lodge ioo oo

Corner-Stone Lodge ioo oo

William McKinley Lodge ioo oo

Granite City Lodge ioo oo

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Wheeler Lodge $ ioo oo

Equity Lodge ioo oo

$800 00
For Special Dispensations the following:

Bodley No. I, to elect Treasurer $ 2 00

Grand Crossing No. 776, to transact business at Special Communi-
cation 2 00

Mendon No. 449, to ballot and confer E.A.degree in less than statu-
tory time 20 00

Herrick No. 193, to elect officers 2 00

Carman No. 732, to elect officers at Special Communication 2 00

Kinmundy No. 398, to elect officers and transact business 2 00

Royal No. 807, to elect officers, etc 2 00

Eddyville No. 672, to elect officers 2 00

Cordova No. 543, to elect officers and transact business 2 00

Toulon N0.93, to hold Annual Communication December 23 instead

of December 24 2 00

Newtown No. 714, to hold Annual Communication December 26

and transact business 2 00

Monitor No. 522, to elect Senior Warden on account of vacancy. . 2 00

Black Hawk No. 238, to elect officers 2 00

Bay City No. 771, to elect officers 2 00

Oriental No. 33, to dispense with Stated Communication 2 00

Crawford No. 666, to elect officers 2 00

Greenup No. 125, to elect Secretary 2 00

Collinsville No. 712, to elect Senior Warden 2 00

Bloomfield No. 148, to elect officers 2 00

May wood No. 869, to elect officers 2 00

Piper No. 608, to elect Secretary 2 00

Franklin Grove No. 264, to elect officers 2 00

Martinton No. 845, to elect Senior and Junior Wardens 2 00

Orel No. 759, to elect Worshipful Master 2 00

Robinson No. 250, to elect Worshipful Master 2 00

Danvers No. 742, to elect officers 2 00

Plainview No. 461, to elect officers 2 00

Tolono No. 391, to elect Junior Warden 2 00

N. D. Morse No. 346, to elect officers 2 00

Batavia No. 404, to elect and install Junior Warden 2 00

Rob Morris No. 247, to elect Master 2 00

Triple No. 835, to elect Master 2 00

^Morris No. 787, to elect and install officers 2 00

Atwood No. 651, to elect Senior Warden 2 00

Troy No. 588, to elect Junior Warden 2 00

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^ —

Berwick No. 619, to elect officers $ 2 00

Rockton No. 74, to elect Master 2 00

Van Meter No. 762, to install J. C. Walters W.M., he never having

been a Warden 2 00

De Soto No. 287, to open Stated Communication at 5 o'clock p. m. 2 00

Edgar No. 825, to elect Junior Warden March 1 2 00

Littleton No. 766, to elect officers 2 00

Clement No. 680, to elect Secretary 2 00

Sullivan No. 764, to attend Easter Service as a lodge 2 00

Garfield No. 686, to attend Easter Service as a lodge 2 00

Tuscola No. 332, to elect Secretary 2 00

Siloam No. 780, to attend Easter Service as a lodge 2 00

Toulon No. 93, to elect Treasurer 2 00

Bodley No. 1, to elect Secretary 2 00

Dunlap No. 321, to elect and install Secretary 2 00

Pearl No. 823, to elect and install Secretary 2 00

Comet No. 641, to elect and install Secretary 2 00

Sequoit No. 827, to remain closed longer than lawful time 2 00

Good Hope No. 617, to elect and install Secretary 2 00

Oriental No. 33, to remain closed during July and August 2 00

Gothic No. 852, to ballot on petition in less than lawful time 20 00

Germania No. 182, to dispense with meetings during July and Aug. 2 00

Gothic No. 852, to confer F. C. degree, waiving proficiency 5 00

Gothic No. 852, to confer M. M. degree, waiving proficiency 5 00

Broadlands No. 791, to elect and install officers 2 00

Monitor No. 522, to attend divine service as a lodge 2 00

Accordia No. 277, to dispense with meetings during July and Aug. 2 00
Nunda No. 169, to dispense with meetings from June 25 to Septem-
ber 24 2 00

Farmers No. 232, to elect and install Secretary 2 00

Mithra No. 410, to dispense with meetings 2 00

St. Marks No. 63, to dispense with meetings 2 00

Waldeck No. 674, to dispense with meetings 2 00

Triluminar No. 767, to dispense with meetings 2 00

Herder No. 669, to dispense with meetings 2 00

Temperance No. 16, to ballot on petition for reinstatement of Bro.

J. E. Foster at Special Communication, June 27 2 00

D. C. Cregier No. 643, to dispense with meetings 2 00

Payson No. 379, to elect Secretary 2 00

Home No. 508, to dispense with meetings 2 00

Blaney No. 271, to dispense with meetings 2 oc

Humboldt Park No. 813, to elect and install Secretary 2 00

Warren No. 14, to elect and install Secretary 2 00

E. F. W. Ellis No. 633, to elect and install Treasurer 2 00

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Pera No. 574, to confer M. M. degree in less than lawful time. . . .$ 5 00

Shirley No. 582, to elect and install Treasurer 2 00

Garden City No. 141, to dispense with meeting 2 00

$1003 00

This money has been paid over to the Grand Secretary and will ap-
pear in his report.

In addition to the above Special Dispensations, I issued two to Me-
tropolis Lodge No. 91, authorizing it to confer the F. C. and M. M.
degrees waiving proficiency. They were issued with the distinct under-
standing that the candidate should thereafter attain the required pro-
ficiency. No fees were charged as the authority was given to facilitate
the work of a school of instruction then being held at Metropolis.

On May 7, 1904, Standard Lodge U. D. was holding a Communication
and was deprived of the use of the hall in which it was meeting by the
city authorities of Chicago. They were not allowed to close lodge before
being ejected, and on May 12 the facts having been made known to me by
the proper officers, I issued them a dispensation without charge, enabling
them to conclude the meeting begun May 7, on the 14th day of May, 1904.

At the last session of this Grand Lodge an appropriation of $509 was
made and placed in the care of Chester Lodge No. 72 to be used for the
care of Brother George William Staley, a member of Kaskaskia Lodge
No. 86. Brother Staley died in January of the present year. Chester
Lodge had used of the fund $143.75 and the balance, $365.25, was re-
turned and has been paid over to the Grand Secretary and by him cred-
ited to the Charity Fund.

I am of opinion that all other matters of revenue and finance will
appear sufficiently in detail in the reports of the Grand Secretary and
Grand Treasurer, which will be submitted for your approval during the

CORNER STONES LAID.

On October 24, 1903, by request of the proper authorities, M. W. Bro.
George M. Moulton, as my proxy, laid the corner-stone of the Masonic
Temple at Elgin. Bethel Commandery No. 36, K. T., acted as special
escort to the Grand Lodge on this occasion. The weather was fine and
the affair passed off pleasantly and was enjoyed by all present.

On October 29, 1903, upon the invitation of the proper authorities,
M. W. Bro. Edward Cook, as my proxy, convened an Occasional Grand
Lodge and laid the corner-stone of the DeKalb county court house with
the usual ceremonies of the Craft. Crusader Commandery No. 17, of

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Rockford, with nearly one hundred swords in line accompanied by
Knights from Dixon, Aurora, Elgin and Sycamore acted as escort to the
Grand Lodge on this occasion. The officers and members of Sycamore
Lodge No. 134 are complimented by the Acting Grand Master in his re-
port upon the excellent preparations made and for their fraternal care of
visiting brethren.

On November 4, 1903, upon the invitation of the proper authorities,
Bro. Charles R. Finley, as my proxy, assisted by an Occasional Grand
Lodge, laid the corner-stone of the New Masonic Temple at Hoopeston.
In his report of the matter the Acting Grand Master compliments the Act:
ing Grand Orator, Rev. J. L. Everton, upon the excellence of the address
delivered by him.

On November 21, 1903, upon the invitation of the proper authorities
and assisted by an Occasional Grand Lodge, I laid the corner-stone of the
Chicago Normal School at Englewood. This was the second building
erected by this institution. The first building was torn down to make
room for the present one. On September 16, 1869, the corner-stone of the
first building was laid by the Fraternity, M. W. Bro. DeWitt C. Cregier
acting as Grand Master.

On March 11, 1904, M. W. Bro. George M. Moulton, as my proxy, laid
the corner-stone of the Englewood Masonic Temple. Englewood, Mystic
Star and Normal Park lodges participated and Englewood Commandery
acted as special escort to the Occasional Grand Lodge.

On May 18, 1904, upon proper invitation, R. W. Bro. W. S. Cantrell,
as my proxy, convened an Occasional Grand Lodge at Harrisburg and laid
the corner-stone of the Saline county court house. A large number of
people witnessed the ceremonies and many Masons were in attendance.

On May 29, 1904, assisted by an Occasional Grand Lodge, I laid the
corner-stone of the Central Church of Christ, at Decatur, 111., pursuant to
invitation from the proper authorities. The weather was inclement but
a large number of citizens turned out to witness the ceremonies.

On July 4, upon request of the proper authorities, I convened an
Occasional Grand Lodge at Hillsboro, 111., in the forenoon and laid the
corner-stone of the Hillsboro High School building. The attendance
was large and Bro. Edward Lane delivered an able and eloquent address.
On the afternoon of the same day, having been invited to do so, I con-
vened an Occasional Grand Lodge at Litchfield and placed in position the
corner-stone of the Carnegie Library building at that place.

On July 7, 1904, upon invitation of the proper authorities, I convened
an Occasional Grand Lodge and laid the corner-stone of the Public School
building at Altamont, 111.

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On July 9, 1904, pursuant to proper invitation and assisted by an Oc-
casional Grand Lodge, I laid the corner-stone of the Garfield Boulevard
Methodist Episcopal Church. The weather was all that could have been
desired. A large number of Knights Templar, Masons and members of
the Order of the Eastern Star participated and a vast concourse of peo-
ple witnessed the ceremonies.

On September 2, 1904, I convened an Occasional Grand Lodge at
Newman, 111., and in compliance with proper invitation placed in position
the corner-stone of the Christian Church at that place. The Tuscola Com-
mandery, K. T., acted as special escort to the Grand Lodge. The weather
was propitious and the attendance large.

On September 9, 1904, having been invited to do so, I convened an
Occasional Grand Lodge at Greenville, Illinois, and laid the corner-stone
of the Carnegie Library building at that place. The Grand Orator waa
present and delivered a short speech and concluded by introducing to the
large audience, M. W. Bro. C. E. Whelan, Past Grand Master of the
Grand Lodge of Wisconsin, who delivered a most appropriate and elo-
quent oration.

On September 12, 1904, pursuant to proper invitation, I convened an
Occasional Grand Lodge at Freeport and laid the corner-stone of the
Masonic Temple at that place. This was one of the largest demonstra-
tions of the year. Bro. Amos Pettibone and Bro. Smith D. Atkins each
delivered an appropriate address.

On September 20, 1904, having received the proper invitations, I con-
vened an Occasional Grand Lodge at Greenup, 111., and on the same after-
noon laid two corner-stones, one of the Carnegie Library Building and the
other of the Presbyterian Church. Bro. G. M. LeCrone, the Acting Grand
Orator, and Bro. James Ryan each delivered an eloquent and appropriate
address. The Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows, Woodmen, Redmen, and
other societies, together with about 250 school children participated in the
parade.

Thus it will be seen the Grand Lodge has made quite a record for
laying corner-stones. The list shows :

Masonic Temples, 4; Churches, 4; School Buildings, 3; Library
Buildings, 3 ; Court Houses, 2 ; Total, 16.

The roster of each of the Occasional Grand Lodges above mentioned
appears in the Appendix hereto.

DEDICATIONS.

On December 1, 1903, M. W. Bro. George M. Moulton, as my proxy,
convened an Occasional Grand Lodge at Grand Crossing, 111., and dedi-

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cated Grand Crossing Masonic Temple and Hall of Grand Crossing
Lodge No. 776. A banquet, speeches and music added to the pleasure
and enjoyment of the four hundred Masons who were present.

On December 5, 1903, R. W. Bro. Isaac Cutter, as my proxy, assisted
by an Occasional Grand Lodge, dedicated the Hall of Kingston Lodge
No. 266, at Kingston, 111. A large number of brethren were present and
after the ceremonies the remainder of the afternoon and evening were
pleasantly spent at work.

On December 30, 1903, R. W. Bro. J. R. Ennis, as my proxy, con-
vened an Occasional Grand Lodge at New Haven, 111., and dedicated the
Hall of New Haven Lodge No. 230. Installation of officers and banquet
followed the dedication and a most pleasant time is reported.

On June 25, 1904, M. W. Bro. George M. Moulton, as my proxy, as-
sisted by an Occasional Grand Lodge, dedicated the Temple and Hall of
Monitor Lodge No. 522, at Elgin, 111. The exercises were followed by a
period of social enjoyment and it is reported that all present left the
building feeling that it was good to have been there.

The most important dedication of the year as well as the most sig-
nificant one in the history of this Grand Lodge occurred at Sullivan, III,
where on the 8th day of September, 1904, I convened an Occasional Grand
Lodge and with appropriate ceremonies solemnly dedicated the Illinois
Masonic Home to the purpose for which it is intended. A large number
of Masons, Knights Templar and citizens graced the occasion with their
presence.

Miss Winnie Titus, of Sullivan, rendered a beautiful and appropriate
vocal solo and a number of songs by the celebrated Lexington Quartet
added much to the beauty and dignity of the ceremonies.

M. W. Bro. Owen Scott delivered an impressive and eloquent dedica-
tory address, which I believe, should be preserved of record, and it will be
found in Appendix to this report.

The rosters of the several Occasional Grand Lodges above mentioned
appear in the appendix to this report.

LODGES CONSTITUTED.

At the last session of this Grand Lodge three charters were issued and
the respective lodges have been constituted as follows :

On November 12, 1903, R. W. Bro. Wm. D. Fullerton as my proxy,
assisted by an Occasional Grand Lodge constituted Lostant Lodge No. 870.

On November 20, 1903, R. W. Bro. Wm. D. Fullerton, as my proxy,
convened an Occasional Grand Lodge at Cornell, Illinois, and duly con-
stituted Cornell Lodge No. 868.

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On December 5, 1903, R. W. Bro. Elmer E. Beach, as my proxy, as-
sisted by an Occasional Grand Lodge, constituted Maywood Lodge No.
869, located at Maywood, Illinois.

The roster of each of the foregoing Occasional Grand Lodges appears
in the appendix hereto.

LODGES U. D.

A dispensation was issued August 21, 1902, by my predecessor to
brethren at Argenta, under which a lodge U. D. was instituted August 28,
1902. Owing to a number of irregularities in the records and returns of
this lodge, the Grand Lodge at the last session directed me to continue the
dispensation, which I did, but for reasons which appeared to me sufficient,
and upon the recommendation of the District Deputy Grand Master and
of a large majority of the members, I relieved the then Worshipful Master
and appointed in his stead Bro. E. H. Thomas. The application of this
lodge for a charter will again come before you at this meeting.

LODGES INSTITUTED.

On October 21, 1903, I issued a dispensation to a number of brethren
at Oakwood to form a lodge U. D., to be known as Free Will Lodge.
Brother David E. Bruffett, the D.D.G.M. for the Seventeenth District, in-
stituted this lodge on November 7, 1903.

On December 14, 1903, I issued a dispensation to a number of breth-
ren in Chicago for the formation of a new lodge, to be known as Standard
Lodge, U. D. This lodge was instituted December 19, 1903, by R. W. Bro.
Henry McCall, D.D.G.M. for the First Masonic District.

On December 17, 1903, I issued a dispensation authorizing certain
brethren at Modesto to form a new lodge to be known as Modesto Lodge
U. D., which was instituted on December 31, 1903, by R. W. Bro. P. F.
Clark, D.D.G.M. for the Twenty-Second Masonic District.

On February 29, 1904, I issued a dispensation to certain brethren in
Chicago to organize a new lodge to be known as Corner-Stone Lodge,
U. D. On March 10 this lodge was instituted by Brothers Robert R. Jam-
polis and Elmer E. Beach, D.D.G.M.'s for the Second and Third Masonic
Districts.

On April 12, 1904, I issued a dispensation to a number of brethren
in Chicago to form a new lodge to be known as William McKinley Lodge
U. D. This lodge was instituted on April 22, 1904, by R. W. Bro. Elmer
E. Beach, D.D.G.M. for the Third Masonic District.

On May 5, 1904, I issued a dispensation to certain brethren at Granite
City for the formation of a new lodge to be known as Granite City

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Lodge U. D. This lodge was instituted May 13, 1904, by R. W. Bro.
William Montgomery, D.D.G.M. for the Twenty-Sixth Masonic District.

On August 25, 1904, I issued a dispensation authorizing certain breth-
ren at Wheeler to form a new lodge to be known as Wheeler Lodge U. D.
This lodge was instituted September 15, 1904, by R. W. Bro. Rufus H.
Smith, D.D.G.M. for the Twenty-Fourth Masonic District.

On September 10, 1904, I issued a dispensation to certain brethren in
Chicago authorizing them to form a new lodge to be known as Equity
Lodge U. D. This lodge was instituted September 17, 1904, by R. W.
Bro. Henry McCall, D.D.G.M. for the First Masonic District.

Some of these lodges will apply for charters at this session of the
Grand Lodge. I commend their claims to your favorable consideration.

SCHOOLS OF INSTRUCTION.

According to custom five Schools of Instruction were held as follows :

Metropolis, January 5, 6 and 7.

Fairfield, January 19, 20 and 21.

Springfield, February 2, 3 and 4.

Danville, February 16, 17 and 18.

Aurora, March 1, 2 and 3.

The detailed report of the Board of Grand Examiners will be found
in the Appendix hereto.

The interest in and attendance at these Schools compare favorably
with former years and the wisdom of the Grand Lodge in providing them is
made more manifest from year to year.

I desire here to compliment the members of the Board upon the zeal
and skill with which they have discharged the duties assigned to them dur-
ing the year.

CHARTERS ISSUED.

In addition to the charters ordered at the last session of this Grand
Lodge I have issued duplicate charters to the lodges named below, the
originals having been lost or destroyed.

Sheba No. 200, located at Grayville.

Jackson No. 93, located at Shelbyville.

Kinmundy No. 398, located at Kinmundy.

Toledo No. 834, located at Toledo.

All of which were issued without fee as provided by law.

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GRAND REPRESENTATIVES.

In October, iSgS, this Grand Lodge recognized the M. W. Grand
Lodge of Tasmania and by resolution provided for an exchange of repre-
sentatives. Early in the present year I addressed a communication to the
M. W. Grand Master of that jurisdiction, suggesting the name of R. W.
Bro. R. T. Spencer as a suitable brother to represent the Grand Lodge of
Tasmania near this Grand Lodge, and requesting him to recommend some
brother whom I might appoint as our representative near the Grand Lodge
of Tasmania. No reply has yet been received.

Bro. E. S. Moss, the representative of the M. W. Grand Lodge of
Washington, having resigned, I nominated M. W. Bro. Joseph Robbins to
fill the vacancy and he was appointed and commissioned by Bro. Chas. D.
Atkins, M. W. Grand Master of the M. W. Grand Lodge of Washington.

There being a vacancy in the representation of this Grand Lodge near
the Grand Lodge of North Carolina, upon the recommendation of M. W.
Bro. Walter S. Liddell, Grand Master of that Jurisdiction, I appointed and
commissioned Bro. Leo D. Heartt to fill the vacancy.

For like reason and upon the recommendation of the M. W. Grand
Master of the United Grand Lodge of New South Wales, I appointed and
commissioned Bro. W. Beavis as representative of the M. W. Grand Lodge
of Illinois near the United Grand Lodge of New South Wales.

Upon the recommendation of the M. W. Grand Master of the Grand
Lodge of Maine, I appointed and commissioned Bro. R. G. Estes as our
representative near the M. W. Grand Lodge of Maine, to fill vacancy ex-
isting in that place.

Bro. Wm. D. Critcherson, the representative of the M.W. Grand Lodge
of Illinois near the M. W. Grand Lodge of New York having resigned, I
appointed and commissioned Bro. William H. Mayer to fill the vacancy,
upon the recommendation of M. W. Bro. Frank H. Robinson, M. W. Grand
Master of the Grand Lodge of New York.

FOREIGN RELATIONS.

Our relations with the several Grand Lodges with which we are in
fraternal correspondence are most cordial and harmonious. Most of the
matters calling for action have related to the usual fraternal courtesies
and to the exchange of representatives.

Two controversies only, have arisen. Waterloo Lodge No. 63, of the
Jurisdiction of Wisconsin, complained through the Grand Master of tha*
state that a petitioner who had been rejected by it had afterward moved to
Mendon, 111., filed his petition with Mendon Lodge No. 449, had been
elected and the degrees conferred, no waiver having been asked of the
Wisconsin Lodge.

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After some investigation I found the petitioner stated in his petition
to Mendon Lodge that he had never petitioned any other lodge for the de-
grees. I ordered that charges be preferred against him for falsely stating
in his petition that he had not previously petitioned any other lodge, and
for falsely answering constitutional question number three propounded to
him by the Secretary; and informed the Grand Master of Wisconsin of
the order. The result of the trial has not yet been reported to me. After
report was in print notice has been received that trial resulted in indefinite
suspension.

Samaritan Lodge No. 105, through the M. W. Grand Master of In-
diana, complained that a petitioner whose legal residence was in its terri-
tory had been elected to and received the first two degrees in Genoa Lodge
No. 288, no waiver of jurisdiction having been asked. Upon investigation
it developed that the petitioner was a single man whose mother resided in
Genoa, which place he had always claimed as his home, but that he had
resided in Marion, Ind., within the jurisdiction of Samaritan Lodge a
sufficient length of time to entitle him to vote and that he had actually
exercised the right to vote there, thus fixing his legal residence at that
place.

There was nothing to show that either the petitioner or Genoa Lodge
had acted other than in good faith upon the mistaken belief that one may
have a residence for Masonic purposes other than his legal residence. I
therefore directed the lodge at Genoa to adjust the matter in a way that
would be satisfactory to the Indiana lodge.

During the year the Grand Orient and Supreme Council of Brazil and
the Grand Lodge of Western Australia have requested recognition by and
an exchange of representatives with this Grand Lodge. I recommend that
these requests be referred to the Committee on Correspondence.

FRATERNAL ASSISTANCE.

Since the last session of this Grand Lodge I have drawn an order on
the Charity Fund for $5 each month for the relief of Mrs. Harrison Dills
as directed by the Grand Lodge. I recommend a continuation of these
payments so long as they are needed.

To cover the appropriation made by the Grand Lodge for the relief
of Bro. Geo. R. Staley, an order was drawn for $509 and placed in charge
of Chester Lodge No. 72. As heretofore stated in this report $365.25 was
not used and has been returned and placed to the credit of the Charity
Fund.

In December, upon the unanimous recommendation of the Charity
Committee an order for $40 was drawn for the relief of Bro. Uriah M.
Humble of J. D. Moody Lodge No. 510, at Iuka, 111. In January Brother

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Humble died and the lodge rendered an itemized account showing the
disposition made of the $40 sent them and also showing that they had ex-
pended $25 in addition thereto in defraying the funeral expenses of Brother
Humble. Upon the unanimous recommendation of the Charity Committee
an order for $25 was drawn from the Charity Fund and the lodge was
reimbursed.

Upon the unanimous recommendation of the Charity Committee, ar
order for $50 was drawn on the Charity Fund for the relief of Bro. Jesse
Green, of Sangamon Lodge No. 801, and placed in the hands of the Master
of the lodge for distribution.

In December, application was made to me for assistance for Bro. Ed-
ward A. Yeck, a member of Gilham Lodge No. 809. At my instance Bro.
Wm. Montgomery, D. D. G. M. for the Twenty-Sixth District, investigated
the condition of Brother Yeck and his family, and upon his report and the
unanimous recommendation of the Charity Committee an order for his
relief for the sum of $100 was drawn against the Charity Fund and placed
in charge of Gilham Lodge No. 809, to be used for the purposes for which
it was drawn.

In January upon the unanimous recommendation of the Charity Com-
mittee an order for $100 was drawn for the relief of Bro. Chas. Riley Gru-
baugh, a member of Hutsonville Lodge No. 136.

On the 27th of February upon the unanimous recommendation of the
Charity Committee an order for $50 was drawn on the Charity Fund for
the relief of Bro. W. D. Overholt, of Manito Lodge No. 476, and placed
in charge of the lodge to be used as required.

DECISIONS.

Almost every day I have been asked for an opinion on some question
of law. Most of them have been easy of solution and over two hundred
and fifty questions have been disposed of, all of which were clearly an-
swered in the law of the Grand Lodge and approved decisions of former
Grand Masters.

I have been asked if it was proper for Masons, individually or as a
lodge, to participate or aid in the conduct of a "Fair" where books of
chance and drawings were features and I have decided that to do so was
a clear violation of Section 6, Article 32, Part Second Grand Lodge By-
Laws.

While I do not think any argument necessary in support of the above
decision, I take this occasion to emphasize the position of this Grand Lodge
upon the subject of gambling in all its various forms.

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Lotteries and games of chance are prohibited by Acts of Congress and
by acts of the legislatures in nearly every state. The acts are held to be
constitutional and are enforced by the courts when they are invoked in
cases pending before them. And the Mason who aids or gives counte-
nance to lottery or gift enterprises in any form or under any pretext, not
only violates the plain provisions of the above section but transgresses the
law of the land which he is taught in his lodge to respect and obey.

You certainly will agree with the statement that nothing is more dam-
aging to the public welfare or more harmful and demoralizing than the tacit
license given by public officials to conduct gambling enterprises when car-
ried on by people of good standing in the community.

It is a notorious fact that the cause of a majority of the defalcations
and embezzlements by trustees and trusted employees may be traced to
the gambling spirit which in one or another of its insidious forms has pos-
sessed them. The large surety companies have learned it to their sorrow
and at great expense, and are crying out against it.

Good people condemn the vice and no one makes bold to defend it,
and yet it is a recorded fact that at the very time the police of a city-
were suppressing turkey raffles in the saloons most of the prominent offi-
cials were taking an active interest in a fair conducted by a great fraternal
organization at which drawings were made for prizes of greater value
than a hundred turkeys.

It certainly behooves every Mason not only to give his sanction to
the law as it stands in our present code but to strictly conform to and
obey it in letter and in spirit.

In addition to the above I have rendered the following decisions which
I hereby submit for your approval.

Under Section 3, Article 4, Part Third Grand Lodge By-Laws, the
Master of a lodge has no authority to appoint a "brother to act as attor-
ney for the accused." The lodge must make the appointment.

The term "attorney" as used in this section does not mean attorney-
at-law but attorney in fact.

No appointment is necessary or proper where the accused shall answer
the notice and appear in person.

The proviso in Section 8, Article 7, Part Third Grand Lodge By-Laws,
does not require, neither does it authorize a lodge to pay the attorney fees
of an accused brother. The word "expenses" in said proviso cannot be
construed to include items of expense not enumerated in the section to
which it is attached.

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COMPLAINTS AND GRIEVANCES.

Considering the large membership we now have complaints have been
few. In several instances attempts were made to re-open cases disposed
of by the M. W. Grand Master during the previous year. In each case I
found the matter had been reported to the Grand Lodge and the action of
the Grand Master had been approved.

This being so I treated each of them as res adjudicata and informed
the complainants that I had no power to annul or set aside the orders and
judgments of the Grand Lodge, it being the sovereign Masonic power in
this state from whose cfecrees no appeal will lie.

Early in October formal complaint was filed with me against Cleve-
land Lodge No. 2ir and its Worshipful Master. I appointed a commission
composed of R. W. Brethren John B. Fithian, R. R. Jampolis and Henry
McCall. The commission investigated the case, each party being repre-
sented before the commission by attorneys by whom nearly all of the
questions were, by stipulation, eliminated except the questions of law in-
volved and which have been passed upon and reported in the preceding
sub-head in that portion thereof relating to the construction of Section 3,
Article 4, Part Third, Grand Lodge By-Laws, and of the proviso to Sec-
tion 8, Article 7, Part Third Grand Lodge By-Laws. The commission in-
ferentially found that the Worshipful Master had violated the law and
was arbitrary in his rulings as Master, but made no recommendation as
to what punishment should be inflicted, if any. Before the commission had
returned its report the official term of the Worshipful Master had ex-
pired and had the facts justified it there was no power residing in the
Grand Master to discipline him for his official acts.

Feeling that some further action should be taken in the case, after
announcing the decisions above referred to, I referred the entire matter
and all the papers to the Committee on Appeals and Grievances with the
request that they report at this session of the Grand Lodge, which they
will no doubt do.

On the 14th of May facts were brought to my attention which seemed
to require that the W. M. of Waldeck Lodge No. 674 be relieved of his
position as Worshipful Master. When the case finally took form, it came
in the shape of a request from the Master to be relieved. An investigation
was made through R. W. Bro. Elmer E. Beach, D. D. G. M. for the Third
District, and upon his report and recommendation I deposed the Worship-
ful Master on the 17th day of May, 1904, until this communication of the
Grand Lodge unless sooner restored to authority.

He has not been restored and I recommend that his deposition be
made perpetual. The papers in the case are herewith submitted. About
sixty other matters of complaint have been disposed of. In almost every

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instance an amicable settlement was secured. Where this was not possible
the decision rendered was in every instance acquiesced in and there seems
to be no occasion for further details under this head.

CLANDESTINE MASONRY.

So many notices of the activity of clandestine Masons, in this and
other jurisdictions, came to my notice shortly after the clgse of the last
session of this Grand Lodge, that I felt justified in issuing an official let-
ter to be read in each lodge, directing attention to the encyclical of my
predecessor on that subject and enjoining upon lodge officers the exercise
of proper caution in the admission of visitors. In the same letter I took
occasion to make a few suggestions upon the subject of invasion by one
lodge of the jurisdiction of another. This letter follows:

From the East

of THE

Most Worshipful Grand Lodge

ANCIENT FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS

OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS.

To the Worshipful Masters, Wardens and Brethren of the Constituent
Lodges of our Jurisdiction:

Brethren : — In January of this year Bro. George M. Moulton, then
M. W. Grand Master, called your attention to advertisements then appear-
ing in the daily papers in Chicago and circular letters issued by one J. E.
Furniss, the purpose of which was to induce applications from the unwary
to become charter members or otherwise of an alleged Lodge A. F. and
A. M., under the authority of the Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M., of Ohio.

My attention has been called to the fact that said Furniss is persisting
in his advertisements and his work, and I deem it proper to direct your
attention to the encyclical of the Grand Master of date above mentioned,
and request you to carefully observe the directions and rulings therein
contained. If this encyclical has been lost or destroyed it will be found in
the proceedings of the Grand Lodge for the year 1903, beginning on
page 46.

Notice has been received at this office of an attempt by certain parties
claiming allegiance to the Grand Lodge of the Federal District of Mexico
to invade the jurisdiction of Texas.

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The M. W. Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia found it neces-
sary at its semi-annual communication held in May, 1902, to adopt the
following resolution :

"Resolved, That the R. W. Grand Secretary notify all Grand Lodges
with which this Grand Lodge is in fraternal relations that there are in the
District of Columbia several lodges composed of persons of African descent
claiming to be Masonic, and that these several lodges have formed a
Grand Lodge; that these lodges are all clandestine and that the Grand
Lodge formed by them is also clandestine ; and, further, that there are no
persons of African descent members, at this time, of any of the constituent
lodges of our Grand Lodge."

These conditions existing in our own and sister jurisdictions should,
it seems to me, be made known to you, that you may increase your vigilance
and prevent imposition by clandestine and irregular Masons and pretend-
ers. I enjoin upon the officers and brethren of all constituent lodges the
duty of insisting that every person seeking admission to a lodge of Masons,
be required to prove his right thereto, in strict accordance with the laws
and edicts in force in this jurisdiction.

There is one other matter about which I believe a word will be timely,
that is, the question of invasion of jurisdiction. Complaints are numerous
on this subject and I would suggest that great care be exercised in this
matter.

When a petitioner informs you either in his petition or verbally that
he has signed a petition for the degrees in Masonry, but that it was never
presented or acted upon, it would be wise to withhold further action upon
it until you can communicate with the lodge to which the former petition
was addressed.

Territorial jurisdiction is determined by measuring in a straight line
from one lodge room to another, and in all cases of doubt it is much bet-
ter to determine the question by actual measurement before a petition is
received than to interrupt the harmony of the craft by having the question
raised after fees have been paid and degrees conferred.

Let this letter be read in open lodge at the first stated communication
after it is received.

Given under my hand and seal in the city of Effingham, this twenty-
fifth day of November, A. D. 1903. Wm. B. Wright,

(Seal.) Grand Master.

REVISION OF BY-LAWS.

The committee appointed to revise our present code of by-laws have
made a careful and painstaking revision and will bring to you a unani

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mous report which I have no doubt will commend itself to your thought-
ful consideration and finally to your undivided support.

MASONIC BOARD OF RELIEF.

The Masonic Board of Relief mentioned by the Grand Master in his
report last year, perfected its organization and adopted a constitution and
by-laws April 4, 1904, and is now performing the work of relieving the
worthy distressed in Cook county in a systematic and discriminating
manner. I regard it as in every way worthy of our confidence and
support.

MASONIC HOMES.

The Illinois Masonic Orphans' Home has been conducted by the offi-
cers and directors who were acting at the time it was transferred to the
Grand Lodge. During the year they have acted as a committee of this
Grand Body and will report to you what they have done as well as the
present condition and needs of the institution.

The Illinois Masonic Home at Sullivan was not completed as soon
as was hoped. A number of things not necesary to enumerate here occa-
sioned delay but it is now ready for those for whom it was built, and the
number of applications that have been called for indicate that in a very
short time a considerable number of our brethren will be at home within
its sheltering walls.

The Board of Trustees will submit for your approval a full and de-
tailed report of what has been done and make such recommendations as
they deem proper relating to its future management.

In undertaking the management of these Homes and assuming the
burden of their support this Grand Lodge has entered upon what to it is
a new line of work and it will not be at all strange if some time is required
to get the machinery adjusted in such a way that the maximum of effi-
ciency with the minimum of expense will result.

The Board of Trustees of the Illinois Masonic Home now numbers
thirteen. I assume from the action taken last year that from now on this
Board will also have charge of the Illinois Masonic Orphans' Home, which
will entail more work upon it than the management of the Sullivan Home
alone, and as details must necessarily be attended to through committees
of the Board it may be the number is not too great for the next year. I
am of the opinion, however, that the number of this Board can be reduced
with safety and without impairing its efficiency, to seven or nine within
the next year or so.

The desire of every Mason ought to be and I firmly believe is that
these Homes shall show results proving the wisdom of the action of the

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Grand Lodge in establishing the one and acquiring the other. Whatevei
of opposition there may have been to entering upon this work, will not,
I am sure, stand in the way of its successful development nor hamper the
efforts of those charged with carrying it on. Loyalty to the Grand Lodge
and submission to its judgment, as expressed in the will of the majority,
will induce us all to lend our enthusiastic support to these institutions
and help by word and deed to make them Irving monuments to the wis-
dom, energy and fraternal solicitude of the Craft in Illinois.

BRO. WM. L. ORR.

On the 23rd of February, 1904, our good brother Wm. L. Orr, the faith-
ful and efficient Grand Tyler of this Grand Lodge, became suddenly de-
ranged as the result of a blood clot on the brain. A note from R. W.
Bro. Gil. W. Barnard advised me of his sad affliction and informed me
that Brother Orr was without means but he would see that his needs were
supplied. I answered the latter part of his letter by saying, "Of course
Brother Orr should have whatever he needs and if you will see that he
has it the outlay will be taken care of."

Bro. C. S. Gurney kindly offered to take charge of the paraphernalia
of the Grand Lodge and perform the duties of Grand Tyler for Brother
Orr while his disability lasted. His kind offer was accepted and as
Brother Orr has not recovered Brother Gurney is still doing his work for
him. His proposition was and is, to do this work and turn the pay over
to Brother Orr or to someone for him. This, it seems to me, would hardly
be right, and I respectfully suggest it would be more in accord with the
spirit of this Grand Lodge as well as more to its liking to provide for the
needs of Brother Orr and compensate Brother Gurney for his services. I
make this suggestion without consulting Brother Gurney or any other
person regarding it.

CONCLUSION.

And now, my brethren, I wish to gratefully acknowledge the obliga-
tions I am under to the officers and brethren whose general sympathy and
loyal support and assistance have contributed so largely to whatever suc-
cess has been attained in the administration of your affairs during the year
just closed. Every call I have made for help has been responded to
promptly and the duties assigned discharged with ability and potency.

Our capable Grand Secretary has rendered much valuable assistance
and the affairs of his office have been so vigorously and effectively ad-
ministered that he was able as early as the 9th of September to close his
books and with pardonable pride record the fact that every lodge had
made report and remitted its Grand Lodge dues.

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The distinguished craftsmen who have occupied the Grand East, and
who possess that ripe knowledge and experience which comes with service,
have at all times been ready when called upon to give me the benefit of
that knowledge and experience. Every craftsman with whom I have come
in contact has had a word of kindly encouragement and good will.

Therefore, looking back through the year with its difficulties and per-
plexities, I am constrained to say that it has been a year of pleasant serv-
ice, and if the record shall meet your approval my reward will be ample.

Fraternally submitted,

Wm. B. Wright,

Grand Master.

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APPENDIX TO M. W. CRAND MASTER'S ADDRESS.

Occasional Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M.,

STATE OF ILLINOIS.

Convened at Elgin, 111., October 24, 1903, for laying the corner-stone
of the Masonic Temple for use of Monitor Lodge No. 522, A. F. and A. M.,
and other Masonic organizations.

Geo. M. Moulton, as M. W. Grand Master.

W. J. Price, as R. W. Deputy Grand Master.

D. W. Reid, as R. W. Senior Grand Warden.

R. T. Sheppard, as R. W. Junior Grand Warden.

F. A. Canfield, as R. W. Grand Treasurer.

Samuel Shedden, as R. W. Grand Secretary.

W. H. Brydges, as R. W. Grand Chaplain.

C. A. Fevrier, as R. W. Grand Orator.

H. C. Raymond, as W. Grand Pursuivant.

A. T. Lewis, as W. Grand Marshal.

C. W. Anderson, as W. Grand Standard Bearer.

D. H. Rotcher, as W. Grand Sword Bearer.
C. F. Crafts, as W. Senior Grand Deacon.

E. N. Herbster, as W. Junior Grand Deacon.
H. E. Jarrett, as W. Grand Steward.

F. II. Bodenchatz, as W. Grand Steward.
H. C. Juby, as W. Grand Steward.

F. H. Horton, as W. Grand Steward.
Wm. L. Orr, Bro. Grand Tyler.

Bro. David Postle^vas the Principal Architect and Bro. E. C. Hawley,
as Master of the oldest lodge, bore the Book of Constitutions.

Occasional Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M.,

STATE OF ILLINOIS.

Convened at Sycamore, Illinois, October 29, 1903, to lay the corner-
stone of the DeKalb county court house.

Edward Cook, as M. W. Grand Master.
William Husk, as R. W. Deputy Grand Master.
C. A. Brown, as R. W. Senior Grand Warden.
F. C. Poust, as R. W. Junior Grand Warden.

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C. M. Conrad, as R. W. Grand Treasurer.
Thos. M. Cliffe, as R. W. Grand Secretary.
N. W. Heermans, as R .W. Grand Chaplain.

F. O. VanGalder, as R. W. Grand Orator.
Irving A. Holcomb, as W. Grand Pursuivant.
Elmer E. Beach, as W. Grand Marshal.

H. M. Stark, as W. Grand Standard Bearer.
Robt. R. Jampolis, as W. Grand Sword Bearer.
H. G. Burgess, as W. Senior Grand Deacon.
S. T. Armstrong, as W. Junior Grand Deacon.
Hiram E. Coffin, as W. Grand Steward.
H. Schermerhorn, as W. Grand Steward.
C. P. Reed, as W, Grand Steward.
Edward Rompf, as W. Grand Steward.

G. B. Wiseman, as Bro. Grand Tyler.

Bro. Jno. R. Waterman, as Master of the oldest lodge, bore the Book
of Constitutions, and Bro. Wm. J. McAlpines was Principal Architect.

Occasional Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M.,

STATE OF ILLINOIS.

Convened at Hoopeston, Illinois, November 4, 1903, to lay the corner-
stone of the new Masonic Temple.

Charles R. Finley, as M. W. Grand Master.
L. B. Russell, as R. W. Deputy Grand Master.
R. C. Smalley, as R. W. Senior Grand Warden.
J. H. Campbell, as R. W. Junior Grand Warden.
George Ensley, as R. W. Grand Treasurer.
Howell D. Thomas, as R. W. Grand Secretary.
Dale Wallace, as R. W. Grand Chaplain.
Rev. J. L. Everton, as R. W. Grand Orator.
R. B. Deem, as W. Grand Pursuivant.
E. R. McConnell, as W. Grand Marshal.
Thomas McCarty, as W. Grand Standard Bearer.
A. L. Spradling, as W. Grand Sword Bearer.
Walter Woodrow, as W. Senior Grand Deacon.
James H. Gimmaka, as W. Junior Grand Deacon.
W. C. Cook, as W. Grand Steward.
Hartley T. Hobson, as W. Grand Steward.
Calvin F. Westfall, as W. Grand Steward.
Oscar Arnold, as W. Grand Steward.
John Musson, as Bro. Grand Tyler.

Bro. George Steely as Master of the oldest lodge, bore the Book of
Constitutions, and Bro. Charles A. Stites was Principal Architect.

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Occasional Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M.,

STATE OF ILLINOIS.

Convened at Lostant, November 12, 1903, for the ceremony of consti-
tuting Lostant Lodge No. 870.

William D. Fullerton, as M. W. Grand Master.

G. O. Friedrich, as R. W. Grand Master.

William E. Moflitt, as R. W. Senior Grand Master.

F. M. Moulton, as R. W. Junior Grand Master.

T. D. Judd, as R. W. Grand Treasurer.

Norman J. Cary, as R. W. Grand Secretary.

Lewis A. Kiser, as R. W. Grand Orator.

H. L. Manley, as R. W. Grand Pursuivant.

D. D. Darrah, as W. Grand Marshal.

George A. McFerson, as W. Grand Standard Bearer.

H. S. Baer, as W. Grand Sword Bearer.

William T. Brenn, as W. Senior Grand Deacon.

C. Y. Austin; as W. Junior Grand Deacon.

W. B. Jones, as W. Grand Steward.

A. F. Witte, as W. Grand Steward.

Hugh Hall, as Bro. Grand Tyler.

Bro. W. P. Grube as Master of the oldest lodge, bore the Book of
Constitutions, and Bros. G. D. Hiltabrand, Richard Spencer, E. R. Spen-
cer and J. E. Hartenbower, were bearers of the Lodge Symbol.

Occasional Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M.,

STATE OF ILLINOIS.

Convened at Cornell, November 20, 1903, for the ceremony of con-
stituting Cornell Lodge No. 868.

William D. Fullerton, as M. W. Grand Master.

Samuel McFeely, as R. W. Deputy Grand Master.

C. Y. Austin, as R. W. Senior Grand Warden.

Benjamin F. Colehower, as R. W. Junior Grand Warden.

William B. Jones, as R. W. Grand Treasurer.

Samuel B. Bradford, as R. W. Grand Secretary.

Charles R. Tombaugh, as R. W. Grand Chaplain.

Charles F. Ross, as R. W. Grand Orator.

James A. Curry, as R. W. Grand Pursuivant.

Harry L. Manley, as W. Grand Marshal.

Charles Howell, as W. Grand Standard Bearer.

Patrick H. Lannon, as W. Grand Sword Bearer.

1904] Grand Lodge of Illinois. 45

Robert Scharfenberg, as W. Senior Grand Deacon.
Ira M. Lish, as W. Junior Grand Deacon.
Robert W. Law, as W. Grand Steward.
John A. Fraser, as W. Grand Steward.
Hugh Hall, as Bro. Grand Tyler.

William E. Herbert, as Master of the oldest lodge, bore the Book of
Constitutions.

James H. Montieth, George W. Dally, Charles F. Allen and William
H. Jennings were bearers of the Lodge Symbol.

Occasional Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M.,

STATE OF ILLINOIS.

Convened at Chicago, November 21, 1903, to lay the corner-stone of
the Teachers' College.

Wm. B. Wright, M. W. Grand Master.

George M. Moulton, as R. W. Deputy Grand Master.

Henry McCall, as R. W. Senior Grand Warden.

Elmer E. Beach, as R. W. Junior Grand Warden.

Leroy A. Goddard, R. W. Grand Treasurer.

Robert R. Jampolis, as R. W. Grand Secretary.

Joseph Stolz, R. W. Grand Chaplain.

Wm. A. Northcott, R. W. Grand Orator.

Roswell T. Spencer, as W. Grand Pursuivant.

John C. Hallenbeck, as W. Grand Marshal.

W. H. Robson, as W. Grand Standard Bearer.

R. J. Roovaart, as W. Grand Sword Bearer.

Jay L. Brewster, as W. Senior Grand Deacon.

Emil Espen, as W. Junior Grand Deacon.

M. L. Jacobs, as W. Grand Steward.

John A. Henry, as W. Grand Steward.

Wm. L. Orr, Bro. Grand Tyler.

Bro. Wm. B. Mundie officiated as Principal Architect and Bro. R. C.
McManus as Master of the oldest lodge, bore the Book of Constitutions.

Occasional Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M.,

STATE OF ILLINOIS.

Convened at Grand Crossing December 1, 1903, for the ceremony of
dedicating the Grand Crossing Masonic Temple and Hall of Grand Cross-
ing Lodge No. 776.

Geo. M. Moulton, as M. W. Grand Master.

Robt. R. Jampolis, as R. W. Deputy Grand Master.

46 Proceedings of the [Oct. 4,

Elmer E. Beach, as R. W. Senior Grand Warden.

James T. Hanrahan, as R. W. Junior Grand Warden.

A. E. Bartelme, as R. W. Grand Treasurer.

L. A. Pierce, as R. W. Grand Secretary.

Louis Pickett, as R. W. Grand Chaplain.

Robert Porter, as R. W. Grand Orator.

Oliver Apgar, as W. Grand Pursuivant.

Albert Roullier, as W. Grand Marshal.

L. A. Gollhardt, as W. Grand Standard Bearer.

W. E. Hansen, as W. Grand Sword Bearer.

G. A. Roberts, as W. Senior Grand Deacon.

E. G. Berger, as W. Junior Grand Deacon.

Wm. Wilson, as W. Grand Steward.

J. M. Rein, as W. Grand Steward.

Wm. L. Orr, Bro. Grand Tyler.

Bro. H. W. Harvey, as Master of the oldest lodge, bore the Book of
Constitutions ; Bro. L. E. Stanhope was Principal Architect ; Bros. Harry
L. Lathe, W. A. Newer, F. J. Nardie and E. Brown were bearers of the
Lodge Symbol.

Occasional Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M.,

c

STATE OF ILLINOIS.

Convened at Kingston, Illinois, December 5, 1903, for dedication of
Masonic Hall to be occupied by Kingston Lodge No. 266.

Isaac Cutter, as M. W. Grand Master.

Henry L. Whipple, as R. W. Senior Grand Warden.

Thomas A. Retallie, as R. W. Junior Grand Warden.

Emmett Howard, as R. W. Grand Treasurer.

Perry Journey, as R. W. Grand Secretary.

Charles G. Gabriel, as R. W. Grand Chaplain.

Joseph Nations, as W. Grand Pursuivant.

Fred A. Morley, as W. Grand Marshal.

Lambert Huber, as W. Grand Standard Bearer.

Frank Humble, as W. Grand Sword Bearer.

Erb W. Beatte, as W. Senior Grand Deacon.

Oliver K. Garrett, as W. Junior Grand Deacon.

John E. Carter, as W. Grand Steward.

H. J. Lewis, as W. Grand Steward.

Daniel W. Crippen, as Bro. Grand Tyler.

Bro. Zenos Wingert, as Master of the oldest lodge, bore the Book of
Constitutions, Bro. M. J. Davidson served as Principal Architect, and
Bros. Isom Vancil, Perry Askew, J. T. Spence and Daniel Kelly bore the
Lodge Symbol.

190-4] Grand Lodge of Illinois. 47

Occasional Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M.,

STATE OF ILLINOIS.

Convened at Maywood, Illinois, December 5, 1903, for the purpose of
constituting Maywood Lodge No. 869.

E. E. Beach, as M. W. Grand Master.

R. R. Jampolis, as R. W. Deputy Grand Master.

Henry McCall, as R. W. Senior Grand Warden.

Harry W." Harvey, as R. W. Junior Grand Warden.

Albert Davis, as R. W. Grand Treasurer.

James John, as R. W. Grand Secretary.

Elmer D. Brothers, as R. W. Grand Chaplain.

Edward Cook, as R. W. Grand Orator.

John P. Garner, as W. Grand Pursuivant.

M. B. Iott, as W. Grand Marshal.

Albert Jampolis, as W. Grand Standard Bearer.

R. F. Thorogood, as W. Grand Sword Bearer.

Jay L. Brewster, as W. Senior Grand Deacon.

R. H. Gulley, as W. Junior Grand Deacon.

Albert Roullier, as W. Grand Steward.

Alfred Hall, as W. Grand Steward.

C. S. Gurney, as Bro. Grand Tyler.

Bro. W. V. Lambe, as Master of the oldest lodge, bore the Book of
Constitutions, and Bros. A. D. Mott, B. T. Colman, A. Lightheart, and
J. Carson bore the Symbol of the Lodge.

Occasional Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M.,

STATE OF ILLINOIS.

Convened at New Haven, Illinois, December 30, 1903, for dedication
of Masonic Hall to be occupied by New Haven Lodge No. 230.

J. R. Ennis, as M. W. Grand Master.

J. H. Graddy, as R. W. Deputy Grand Master.

H. H. Frayser, as R. W. Senior Grand Warden.

A. B. Wood, as R. W. Junior Grand Warden.

H. C. McMullen, as R. W. Grand Treasurer.

John Barnett, as R. W. Grand Secretary.

I. A. Foster, as R. W. Grand Chaplain.

Jasper Partrige, as R. W. Grand Orator.

J. J. Trafford, as W. Grand Pursuivant.

Chas. Frayser, as W. Grand Marshal.

Fred Schulze, as W. Grand Standard Bearer.

48 Proceedings of the [Oct. 4,

J. L. Crunk, as W. Grand Sword Bearer.
G. W. Perkins, as W. Senior Grand Deacon.
L. T. Jones, as W. Junior Grand Deacon.
W. M. Steel, as W. Grand Steward.
Chas. McMurtry, as W. Grand Steward.
John Brown, as Bro. Grand Tyler.

Bro. John Harvy, as Master of the oldest lodge, bore the Book of
Constitutions, Bro. I. A. Foster served as Principal Architect, and Bros.
Martin Vines, Leroy Harvey, D. M. Harper and W. G. Sanders were the
bearers of the Lodge Symbol.

Occasional Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M.,

STATE OF ILLINOIS.

Convened at Englewood, Illinois, March n, 1904, to lay the corner-
stone of the Englewod Masonic Temple.

Geo. M. Moulton, as M. W. Grand Mastei.
R. R. Jampolis, as R. W. Deputy Grand Master.
Henry McCall, as R. W. Senior Grand Warden.
R. T. Spencer, as R. W. Junior Grand Warden.
L. A. Goddard, R. W. Grand Treasurer.
Edward Kirk, as R. W. Grand Secretary.
Rev. F. A. Hardin, as R. W. Grand Chaplain.
Rev. R. A. White, as R. W. Grand Orator.
O. D. Frary, as W. Grand Pursuivant.
J. Frank Foster, as W. Grand Marshal.
John W. May, as W. Grand Standard Bearer.
Lewis Dinkelacher, as W. Grand Sword Bearer.
Geo. M. Abbot, as W. Senior Grand Deacon.
Henry F. Sawtelle, as W. Junior Grand Deacon.
George Clements, as W. Grand Steward.
Charles A. Mayo, as W. Grand Steward.
G. W. Weippert, as W. Grand Steward.
A. E. Hermes, as W. Grand Steward.
C. S. Gurney, Acting Bro. Grand Tyler.

Bro. E. T. Skinkle, as Master of the oldest lodge, bore the Book of
Constitutions, and Bro. Harris W. Huehl was Principal Architect.

1904] Grand Lodge of Illinois. 49

Occasional Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M.,

STATE OF ILLINOIS.

Convened at Harrisburg, Illinois, May 18, 1904, to lay the corner-stone
of the Saline county court house.

W. S. Cantrell, as M. W. Grand Master.

J. R. Ennis, as R. W. Deputy Grand Master.

F. H. Stamper, as R. W. Senior Grand Warden.

Geo. C. Cantrell, as R. W. Junior Grand Warden.

Wm. M. Gregg, as R. W. Grand Treasurer.

J. W. Richardson, as R. W. Grand Secretary.

A. G. Abney, as R. W. Grand Chaplain.

W. V. Choisser, as R. W. Grand Orator.

J. W. Mitchell, as W. Grand Pursuivant.

J. S. Ferguson, as W. Grand Marshal.

J. L. Cook, as W. Grand Standard Bearer.

A. H. Story, as W. Grand Sword Bearer.

T. Y. Gregg, as W. Senior Grand Deacon.

Orval Ferrell, as W. Junior Grand Deacon.

J. V. Capel, as W. Grand Steward.

W. W. Adams, as W. Grand Steward.

E. C. Anderson, as W. Grand Steward.

L. L. Canine, as W. Grand Steward.

C. S. Gurney, Acting Bro. Grand Tyler.

W. A. McHaney, as Master of the oldest lodge, bore the Book of Con-
stitutions, and Bro. J. W. Gaddis was Principal Architect.

Occasional Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M.,

STATE OF ILLINOIS.

Convened at Decatur, Illinois, May 29, 1904, to lay the corner-stone of
the Central Church of Christ.

Wm. B. Wright, M. W. Grand Master.

Owen Scott, as R. W. Deputy Grand Master.

J. W. Van Cleave, as R. W. Senior Grand Warden.

W. J. Davidson, as R. W. Junior Grand Warden.

L. T. Armstrong, as R. W. Grand Treasurer.

George A. Stadler, as R. W. Grand Secretary.

F. W. Burnham, as R. W. Grand Chaplain.

William E. Nelson, as R. W. Grand Orator.

A. T. Pifer, as W. Grand Pursuivant.

George S. Durfee, as W. Grand Marshal.

50 Proceedings of the [Oct. 4,

J. S. Edmondson, as W. Grand Standard Bearer.
W. J. Britton, as W. Grand Sword Bearer.
N. M. Mesnard, as W. Senior Grand Deacon.
James M. Willard, as W. Junior Grand Deacon.
H. E. Shaw, as W. Grand Steward.
Reuben Adkins, as W. Grand Steward.
J. T. Vent, as W. Grand Steward.
James Fisher, as W. Grand Steward.
Archey McLelland, as Bro. Grand Tyler.

Bro. James S. Baldwin, as Master of the oldest lodge, bore the Book
of Constitutions, and Bro. M. L. Downey was Principal Architect.

Occasional Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M.,

STATE OF ILLINOIS.

Convened at Elgin, Illinois, June 25, 1904, to dedicate the Masonic
Temple of Monitor Lodge No. 522, A. F. and A. M.

George M. Moulton, as M. W. Grand Master.

Jay L. Brewster, as R. W. Deputy Grand Master.

Clarence F. Craft, as R. W. Senior Grand Warden.

Edward N. Herfster, as R. W. Junior Grand Warden.

Edward F. Prideaux, as R. W. Grand Treasurer.

Horatio G. Diener, as R. W. Grand Secretary.

Wm. H. Brydges, as R. W. Grand Chaplain.

James Chalmers, as R. W. Grand Orator.

Wm. H. McGregor, as W. Grand Pursuivant.

Chas. A. Fevrier, as W. Grand Marshal.

E. R. Kellogg, as W. Grand Standard Bearer.

D. H. Rotcher, as W. Grand Sword Bearer.

P. A. Sawtelle, as W. Senior Grand Deacon.

H. E. Jarrett, as W. Junior Grand Deacon.

H. A. Lee, as W. Senior Grand Steward.

W. S. Von Plees, as W. Junior Grand Steward.

Chester S. Gurney, Acting Bro. Grand Tyler.

Bro. S. A. French, as Master of the oldest lodge, bore the Book of
Constitutions, and Bros. A. D. Hamilton, A. J. Sides, J. T. DeRemer and
A. J. Rowlands were bearers of the Lodge Symbol.

1904] Grand Lodge of Illinois. 51

Occasional Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M.,

STATE OF ILLINOIS.

Convened at Hillsboro, Illinois, July 4, 1904, for the purpose of laying
the corner-stone of the Hillsboro High School building.

Wm. B. Wright, M. W. Grand Master.

D. W. Starr, as R. W. Deputy Grand Master.

W. H. Tinklepaugh, as R. W. Senior Grand Warden.

C. B. McKinney, as R. W. Junior Grand Warden.

John Jayne. as R. W. Grand Treasurer.

W. H. Young, as R. W. Grand Secretary.

Rev. P. P. Carson, as R. W. Grand Chaplain.

Edward Lane, as R. W. Grand Orator.

H. N. Pope, as W. Grand Pursuivant.

C. A. Ramsay, as W. Grand Marshal.

M. W. Miller, as W. Grand Standard Bearer.

Jas. P. Brown, as W. Grand Sword Bearer.

A Rhinehart, as W. Senior Grand Deacon. '

A. H. Clotfelter, as W. Junior Grand Deacon.

Dan Stump, as W. Grand Steward.

A. Gardner, as W. Grand Steward.

Jos. Piatt, as W. Grand Steward.

W. G. Webster, as W. Grand Steward.

C. S. Guerney, Acting Bro. Grand Tyler.

W. M. Neff, as "Master of the oldest lodge, bore the Book of Consti-
tutions and Bro. A. Moore was Principal Architect.

Occasional Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M.,

STATE OF ILLINOIS.

Convened at Litchfield, Illinois, July 4, 1904, to lay the corner-stone of
the Carnegie Library.

Wm. B. Wright, M. W. Grand Master.

D. W. Starr, as R. W. Deputy Grand Master.
Alexander H. Bell, R. W. Senior Grand Warden.
Henry Tinklepaugh, as R. W. Junior Grand Warden.
T. F. Blankley, as R. W. Grand Treasurer.

Alex. Strange, as R. W. Grand Secretary.
Rev. David Gay, as R. W. Grand Chaplain.
Josiah Bixler, as R. W. Grand Orator.

E. B. Jordan, as W. Grand Pursuivant.
H. A. Snell, as W. Grand Marshal.

52 Proceedings of the [Oct. 4,

Willis G. Tippett, as W. Grand Standard Bearer.

S. M. Grubbs, as W. Grand Sword Bearer.

Paul McWilliams, as W. Senior Grand Deacon.

D. P. Taylor, as W. Junior Grand Deacon.

Eli Lee, as W. Grand Steward.

W. F. Diamond, as W. Grand Steward.

R. H. Putnam, as W. Grand Steward.

M. V. Gardiner, as W. Grand Steward.

C. S. Gurney, Acting Bro. Grand Tyler.

Bro. John W. Rose, as Master of the oldest lodge, bore the Book of
Constitutions, and Bro. J. H. Belt was Principal Architect.

Occasional Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M.,

STATE OF ILLINOIS.

Convened at Altamont, Illinois, July 7, 1904, to lay the corner-stone
of Altamont Public School building.

Wm. B. Wright, M. W. Grand Master.

Fred Naumer, as R. W. Deputy Grand Master.

Chas. Otis Faught, as R. W. Senior Grand Warden.

G. L. Hutchens, as R. W. Junior Grand Warden.

I. A. Sprinkle, as R. W. Grand Treasurer.

D. F. Piper, as R. W. Grand Secretary.

W. T. Gordon, as R. W. Grand Chaplain.

G. M. Baker, as R. W. Grand Orator.

Robert A. Parks, as W. Grand Pursuivant.

David L. Wright, as W. Grand Marshal.

A. Smith, as W. Grand Standard Bearer.

J. N. Groves, as W. Grand Sword Bearer.

S. S. Smith, as W. Senior Grand Deacon.

George W. Tipsword, as W. Junior Grand Deacon.

G. W. Gwin, as W. Grand Steward.

C. E. Mitchell, as W. Grand Steward.

G. U. Grant, as W. Grand Steward.

LaMonte Saylor, as W. Grand Steward.

Joseph Danks, as Bro. Grand Tyler.

Bro. John Harrison, as Master of the oldest lodge, bore the Book of
Constitutions, and H. Weichelman was Principal Architect.

1904] Grand Lodge of Illinois. . 53

Occasional Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M.,

STATE OF ILLINOIS.

Convened at Chicago, Illinois, July 9, 1904, to lay the corner-stone of
the Garfield Boulevard Methodist Episcopal Church.

Wm. B. Wright, M. W. Grand Master.

A. C. McKay, as R. W. Deputy Grand Master.

C. F. Lenning, as R. W. Senior Grand Warden.

Daniel E. Meyer, as R. W. Junior Grand Warden.

C. H. Martin, as R. W. Grand Treasurer.

J. E. Russell, as R. W. Grand Secretary.

Edward D. Aten, as R. W. Grand Chaplain.

Frank H. Gardner, as R. W. Grand Orator.

Rev. Keen Ryan, as W. Grand Pursuivant.

W. L. Blaine, as W. Grand Marshal.

L. A. Gollhardt, as W. Grand Standard Bearer.

E. A. McVay, as W. Grand Sword Bearer.

Edward J. Forner, as W. Senior Grand Deacon.

Herman Jungk, as W. Junior Grand Deacon.

Allen Middleton, as W. Grand Steward.

S. Dick Pryce, as W. Grand Steward.

L. M. Russell, as W. Grand Steward.

A. J. Brough, as W. Grand Steward.

C. S. Gurney, Acting Bro. Grand Tyler.

Geo. M. Abbott, as Master of the oldest lodge, bore the Book of Con-
stitutions, and S. W. Irwin was Principal Architect.

Occasional Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M.,

STATE OF ILLINOIS.

Convened at Newman, Illinois, September 2, 1904, to lay the corner-
stone of the Christian Church.

Wm. B. Wright, M. W. Grand Master.
B. W. Vandine, as R. W. Deputy Grand Master.
F. L. White, as R. W. Senior Grand Warden.
F. K. Page, as R. W. Junior Grand Warden.
Thos. Rutherford, as R. W. Grand Treasurer.
Arthur Yeager, as R. W. Grand Secretary.
Rev. A. E. Hamilton, as R. W. Grand Chaplain.
F. C. Winkler, as R. W. Grand Orator.
Lois Josserand, as W. Grand Pursuivant.
W. M. Young, as W. Grand Marshal.

54 Proceedings of the [Oct. 4,

Chas. Former, as W. Grand Standard Bearer.
G. P. Mclntyre, as W. Grand Sword Bearer.
L. E. Root, as W. Senior Grand Deacon.
Jos. Vandine, as W. Junior Grand Deacon.
Top. Burgett, as W. Grand Steward.
J. M. Young, as W. Grand Steward.
Jas. H. Shaw, as W. Grand Steward.
Thos. Chilcote, as W. Grand Steward.
C. S. Gurney, Acting Bro. Grand Tyler.

Bro. Thos. Edmonston, as Master of the oldest lodge, bore the Book
of Constitutions, and Bro. John M. Kyde was Principal Architect.

Occasional Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M.,

STATE OF ILLINOIS.

Convened at Sullivan, Illinois, September 8, 1904, for the purpose of
dedicating the Illinois Masonic Home.

Wm. B. Wright, M. W. Grand Master.
Chester E. Allen, R. W. Deputy Grand Master.
A. H. Bell, R. W. Senior Grand Warden.
A. B. Ashley, R. W. Junior Grand Warden.
T. H. Humphreys, as R. W. Grand Treasurer.
Chas. V. Young, as R. W. Grand Secretary.
L. A. Goddard, as R. W. Grand Chaplain.
Owen Scott, as R. W. Grand Orator.
Jas. A. Steele, as W. Grand Pursuivant.
Louis Zinger, W. Grand Marshal.
L. L. Munn, as W. Grand Standard Bearer.
J. R. Ennis, W. Grand Sword Bearer.
Ralph H. Wheeler, as W. Senior Grand Deacon.
N. M. Mesnard, W. Junior Grand Deacon.
George W. Hamilton, W. Grand Steward.
C. Rohrbough, W. Grand Steward.
C. S. Gurney, Acting Bro. Grand Tyler.

Bro. P. W. Barkley, as Master of the oldest lodge, bore the Book of
Constitutions, Bro. C. F. Hitchcock was Principal Architect, and Bros.
H. D. Davisson, A. A. Ricketts, W. Taggart and E. J. Enslow, were
bearers of the Lodge Symbol.

190-4] Grand Lodge, of Illinois. 55

Occasional Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M.,

STATE OF ILLINOIS.

Convened at Greenville, Illinois, September 9, 1904, for the purpose
of laying the corner-stone of the Carnegie Library building at that place.
Wm. B. Wright, M. W. Grand Master.

Wm. Montgomery, as R. W. Deputy Grand Master.

H. T. Burnap, as R. W. Senior Grand Warden.

Chas. Schurman, as R. W. Junior Grand Warden.

F. Thraner, as R. W. Grand Treasurer.

C. J. Lindly, as R. W. Grand Secretary.

Rev. J. G. Wright, as R. W. Grand Chaplain.

Wm. A. Northcott, R. W. Grand Orator.

Samuel McGowan, as W. Grand Pursuivant.

Wm. T. Easley, as W. Grand Marshal.

W. T. Harlan, as W. Grand Standard Bearer.

C. F. Thraner, as W. Grand Sword Bearer.

H. W. Riedemann, as W. Senior Grand Deacon.

F. H. Floyd, as W. Junior Grand Deacon.

H. W. Park, as W. Grand Steward.

Jos. H. Story, as W. Grand Steward.

A. L. Fford, as W. Grand Steward.

J. Murdock, as W. Grand Steward.

C. S. Gurney, Acting Bro. Grand Tyler.

Bro. W. A. McLain, as Master of the oldest lodge, bore the Book of
Constitutions, and Bro. J. M. Rees was Principal Architect.

Occasional Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M.,

STATE OF ILLINOIS.

Convened at Freeport, Illinois, September 12, A. D. 1904, to lay the
corner-stone of the Masonic Temple at that place.
Wm. B. Wright, M. W. Grand Master.
M. Stoskopf, as R. W. Deputy Grand Master.
J. F. Fair, as R. W. Senior Grand Warden.
L. L. Munn, as R. W. Junior Grand Warden.
O. E. Heard, as R. W. Grand Treasurer.
Gil. W. Barnard, as R. W. Grand Secretary.
J. M. Phelps, as R. W. Grand Chaplain.
S. D. Atkins, as R. W. Grand Orator.
Amos Pettibone, as W. Grand Pursuivant.
Wm. Trembor, as W. Grand Marshal.
S. Widdowson, as W. Grand Standard Bearer.

56 Proceedings of the [Oct. 4,

J. H. Donaldson, as W. Grand Sword Bearer.

W. E. Tucker, as W. Senior Grand Deacon.

J. M. Oliver, as W. Junior Grand Deacon.

Jas. Carr, as W. Grand Steward.

S. Sinclair, as W. Grand Steward.

P. S. McMillan, as W. Grand Steward.

R. C. McCredie, as W. Grand Steward.

C. S. Gurney, Acting Bro. Grand Tyler.

Bro. W. A. C. Dunham, as Master of the oldest lodge, bore the Book
of Constitutions, and Bro. J. H. Rife was Principal Architect.

Occasional Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M.,

STATE OF ILLINOIS.

Convened at Greenup, Illinois, September 20, 1904, for the purpose of
laying the corner-stones of the Greenup Presbyterian Church and the
Greenup Cargenie Library.

Wm. B. Wright, M. W. Grand Master.
Rufus H. Smith, as R. W. Deputy Grand Master.
W. H. Cassady, as R. W. Senior Grand Warden.
Ed. Peters, as R. W. Junior Grand Warden.
Chas. G. Young, as R. W. Grand Treasurer.
Fred W. Beck, as R. W. Grand Secretary.
W. E. Harris, as R. W. Grand Chaplain.
G. M. Le Crone, as R. W. Grand Orator.
Charley Wiley, as W. Grand Pursuivant.
David L. Wright, as W. Grand Marshal.
Carson Lawyer, as W. Grand Standard Bearer.

D. R. Love, as W. Grand Sword Bearer.

L. F. Strockbine, as W. Senior Grand Deacon.

Frank Voris, as W. Junior Grand Deacon.

Thos. Haddock, as W. Grand Steward.

John Haddock, as W. Grand Steward.

P. C. Morgan, as W. Grand Steward.

J. W. Ozier, as W. Grand Steward.

C. S. Gurney, Acting Bro. Grand Tyler.

Bro. Luther Aldrich, as Master of the oldest lodge, bore the Book of
Constitutions, and Bro. H. M. Winslow was Principal Architect.

1904] Grand Lodge of Illinois. 57

REPORTS

OF

R. W. District Deputy Grand Masters.

FIRST DISTRICT.

Chicago, III., September 3, 1904.

Wm. B. Wright, M. W. Grand Master:

My Dear Brother: — I desire to report that during the current year I
have visited a majority of the lodges in the First District and found (with
few exceptions) everything going along regularly. In each lodge visited
I was received with the respect and courtesy due my office. All the lodges
are making an honest endeavor to conform to the rules and regulations
of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge, and especially do the new lodges
vie with each other to excel in all things pertaining to the making of a
good lodge.

Permit me to most cordially thank you for the confidence reposed in
me, and for the honor conferred. Fraternally,

Henry McCall,
D.D.G.M. First District.

SECOND DISTRICT.

Chicago, III., September 12, 1904.

Wm. B. Wright, M. W. Grand Master:

My Dear Brother: — It affords me great pleasure indeed to submit
my annual report as your representative of the Second Masonic District.

No matter requiring official action has been presented to me during
the year; I am satisfied that this happy situation is due in a great meas-
ure to the fact that nearly every lodge in this District is schooled in the
work and well informed in the law.

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I have from time to time sought to impress the respective lodges of the
urgent necessity of investigating committees appointed on petitioners for
degrees, to never lose sight of our ancient landmarks and the by-laws of
our institution, that no one may gain admission who is not strictly qualified
in every essential. I am happy to inform you of a healthy increase nu-
merically composed of good material.

At your request I instituted Corner-stone Lodge, U. D., March 10,
1904. I have since that time been somewhat regular in my attendance
and a close observer, and I am pleased to say that I believe the character
of the work performed by the Master, Bro. Edgar C. Jackson, and his
efficient corps of officers, aided by enthusiasm of the members, to be of
that high order to warrant your favorable consideration for constitution.

I wish in conclusion to express to you my heartfelt thanks for the
honor conferred and the confidence reposed in me by my appointment as
your deputy for the Second District.

With my congratulations on your very successful administration and
my best wishes for the future, I have the honor to be,

Fraternally yours,

Robert R. Jampolis,
D.D.G.M. Second District.

THIRD DISTRICT.

Chicago, III., September 5, 1904.

Wm. B. Wright, M. IV. Grand Master:

My Dear Brother : — It is a pleasure to be able to report to you that
the condition of Masonry in the Third District is in every respect satis-
factory. The lodges are prosperous without exception, are working har-
moniously, and the best of good feeling prevails. No questions have
arisen during the past year to make it necessary for the District Deputy
to visit any lodge officially for the purpose of adjusting differences or dis-
putes.

It has afforded me much pleasure to visit the various lodges in the
Third District during the year, and particularly so as I could make such
visits unofficially. Numerous questions have been submitted to me for
decision, but in no case has it appeared necessary to report the matter to
the M. W. Grand Master.

I wish to thank you for the confidence you have reposed in me in ap-
pointing me as your Deputy for the Third District. The service rendered
has been to me an unmixed pleasure. Fraternally yours,

Elmer E. Beach,
D.D.G.M. Third District.

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FOURTH DISTRICT.

Waukegan, III., August 29, 1904.

PVm. B. Wright, M. W. Grand Master:

My Dear Brother: — It is with much pleasure that I submit to you
my first annual report as your representative of the Fourth Masonic Dis-
trict. Peace and harmony prevail and I believe the past year has been one
of profit and pleasure to all.

Among the most notable events at which it has been my good fortune
to be present, are the following :

The opening of the new home of Elgin Lodge No. 117, October 16,

1903, this being the fifty-first anniversary of this lodge. The evening was
a grand success and was much enjoyed by all present.

The fiftieth anniversary of Richmond Lodge No. 143, February 10,

1904. This lodge had just received the benefit of three days' instruction
from Bro. H. S. Hurd, R. W. Deputy Grand Lecturer. This speaks for
itself and shows the desire to excel in the standard work.

The School of Instruction held at Aurora, March 1, 2 and 3, 1904.
This school being the first held in the District for many years, was pro-
ductive of much good and seemed to put new life and energy into the
members. We hope there will be more to follow.

An afternoon and evening session of Nunda Lodge No. 169, May 16,
1904, four candidates being introduced into the mysteries of the Master
Mason Degree. Worshipful Brother William W. Roberts proved himself
equal to the occasion, he being ably assisted by Bro. James Wheat, Past
Deputy Lecturer, through whose tireless energy this lodge has attained to
almost perfect proficiency in the standard work.

The dedication of the new temple of Monitor Lodge No. 522, June 25,
1904. This lodge is to be congratulated. Their efforts have met with suc-
cess. May they long enjoy their beautiful new home.

I have, as far as possible, accepted all invitations to visit, and have re-
ceived from all a hearty welcome and an urgent request to come again.

Thanking you for the honor conferred, and congratulating you on your
successful and efficient administration, I am, with best wishes,

Fraternally yours,

J. L. Brewster,
D.D.G.M. Fourth District.

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FIFTH DISTRICT.

Rockford, III., August 18, 1904.

Wm. B. Wright, M. W. Grand Master:

My Dear Brother: — I am pleased to report that peace and harmony
prevails throughout the Fifth Masonic District of Illinois, and the lodges
of which it is composed are in their usual prosperous condition, and noth-
ing has come to my notice or reported to me that required an official visit.

While I have enjoyed several friendly visits among the brethren, other
duties have prevented my making visits to all lodges. I have cheerfully
responded to all calls and ever ready to serve the Craft when opportunity
offered or my services needed.

With kindest regards and best wishes, I am
Fraternally yours,

A. G. Everett,
D.D.G.M. Fifth District.

SIXTH DISTRICT.

Sterling, III., August 30, 1904.
Wm. B. Wright, M. W. Grand Master:

My Dear Brother: — I take pleasure in presenting my report as your
Deputy for the Sixth Masonic District.

I have had the privilege of visiting but few of the lodges.

I find that harmony prevails and most of the lodges are doing much
work, and are more careful in the selection of material. And all are
ambitious to do better work than formerly.

The Secretaries of all the lodges were prompt in sending their election
returns.

I am thankful for the honor conferred upon me, and congratulate
you upon the success of your administration.

Fraternally yours,

John W. Miles,
D.D.G.M. Sixth District.

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SEVENTH DISTRICT.

DeKalb, III., August 22, 1904.

Wm. B. Wright, M. W. Grand Master:

My Dear Brother: — I herewith submit my annual report which of
necessity will be brief as nothing has transpired beyond the usual during
the year. No grievances have been reported. On the contrary, every lodge
is well pleased with the good fellowship that exists among its members as
well as the amount and quality of work done since my last report. I an-
ticipate a large increase of membership during the fall and winter months
in nearly every lodge in my District. However I insist that great care and
precaution be taken and no one be recommended to participate in our de-
liberations but worthy men and worthy men alone. My home lodge ex-
pects to ask for one of the Masonic Schools of Instruction. I sincerely
hope that DeKalb Lodge No. 144 will have that honor.

Thanking you for the honor conferred and assuring you of my loy-
alty to you and your successful administration, I am with high regards,
Cordially and fraternally yours,

D. D. Hunt,
D.D.G.M. Seventh District.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.

Joliet, III., September 16, 1904.

Wm. B. Wright, M. W. Grand Master:

My Dear Brother : — There has been no friction in the Eighth Dis-
trict during the past year that has been called to my notice and I believe
that harmony prevails within its borders. No matters have been called to
my attention that could not be sufficiently adjusted by a reference to the
Grand Lodge By-Laws and the decisions thereon. The only official service
I have been called upon to perform has been specially reported. I have
responded to all calls that have been made, and am pleased to be able to
report that the Craft throughout this District is prosperous and in good
Masonic condition. Fraternally yours,

Jno. B. Fithian,
D.D.G.M. Eighth District.

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NINTH DISTRICT.

Ottawa, III., Sept. 28, 1904.
Wm. B. Wright, M. IV. Grand Master.

My Dear Brother: — My official duties during the year closing were
the constitution of Lostant Lodge No. 870, on November 12, 1903, and of
Cornell Lodge No. 868, on November 20, 1903, which events have been
duly reported.

The feature of the year in this district has been the marked increase
in the number of schools of instruction, which have been held locally by
the lodges, under the supervision of Deputy Grand Lecturers, and a cor-
responding improvement in the quality of the work being done.

Early in the year I secured from the secretaries of the different lodges
statistics upon this matter which I compiled, and later I addressed to each
lodge in the district a communication from which I reproduce the follow-
ing:

"Of the twenty-seven lodges of this district, sixteen have, within the
last five years, received instruction in the standard work from deputy
lecturers. Eleven have received no such instruction.

'"Of the sixteen, one lodge has held schools on twelve separate days ;
six lodges have held three or four schools each, with an aggregate of from
nine to twelve days of instruction ; two lodges have held two schools,
aggregating four and six days ; and seven lodges have each held one
school of from three to five days.

"Of the eleven lodges, two have had no instructor for seven years;
six have had no instructor for from ten to fifteen years ; and the re-
maining three cannot remember that they ever had one.

"In the first list of sixteen are found all of the lodges which, during
the past year, conferred twenty-one degrees or more ; six lodges in the
second list conferred last year, six degrees or less, and in this list are
found all lodges which last year did no work."

A pleasant social event of the year was a reception tendered to the
M. W. Grand Master on the evening of February 22d, by Occidental
Lodge No. 40. Invitations were extended by the lodge to the Masters
and Wardens of all the lodges in the district, and many availed themselves
of the privilege of meeting personally the M. W. Grand Master.

With cordial expression of my personal regard, I submit the above.

William D. Fullerton,
D.D.G.M. Ninth District.

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TENTH DISTRICT.

Sparland, III., August 29, 1904.
Wm. B. Wright, M. W. Grand Master:

My Dear Brother : — I take great pleasure in submitting to you my
annual report for the Tenth District.

All of the lodges reported to me their election and installation of
officers. I have been called upon to make two official visits. So far as I
can learn the membership has increased more than any previous year.
Most all of the boys are doing standard work and peace and harmony
prevail.

I congratulate you upon your able administration and thank you for
the honor conferred upon me. Fraternally yours,

T. VanAntwerp,
D.D.G.M. Tenth District.

ELEVENTH DISTRICT.

Orion, III., August 20, 1904.
Wm. B. Wright, M. W. Grand Master:

My Dear Brother: — I am pleased to report that peace and harmony
prevail throughout the Eleventh Masonic District of the state of Illinois,
and the lodges of which it is composed are in a prosperous and healthy
condition. It has been both my privilege and pleasure to visit a majority
of the lodges in various capacities during the year and have found rather
an unusual interest in proficiency in the standard work prevailing.

I note with pleasure a splendid new home for our own lodge here in
which so many of the Craft kindly assisted in its house-warming on
June 17.

Thanking you for honors bestowed and wishing you success in your
regime as M. W. Grand Master, I am Fraternally yours,

J. S. Burns,
D.D.G.M. Eleventh District.

TWELFTH DISTRICT.

Farmington, III., August 30, 1904.
Wm. B. Wright, M. W. Grand Master:

My Dear Brother :— As D.D.G.M. of the Twelfth District I have but
little to report beyond the usual routine business. I have not been called

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upon to make any official visitations. I have made several unofficial visits
to a number of lodges and assisted in conferring degrees, have instructed
two lodges in the standard work and am pleased to report an increasing
interest in the standard work. I have received quite a number of letters
asking for information, one or two of which I submitted to you, others
were easily and satisfactorily answered by reference to the "Blue Book"
and "Book of Ceremonials." So far as I am able to learn most of the
lodges in this District have done an average amount of work and are
fairly prosperous.

Thanking you for the honor conferred, I am
Fraternally yours,

Emerson Clark,
D.D.G.M. Twelfth District.

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT.

Galesburg, III., August 19, 1904.
Wm. B. Wright, M. W. Grand Master:

My Dear Brother: — As District Deputy Grand Master of the Thir-
teenth District, I take pleasure in submitting my annual report.

I have had the pleasure of visiting several lodges in my District and
find all, with one exception, moving off lovely.

I was present at the trial involving complaint of unmasonic conduct,
the full report which was forwarded to you by the lodge and hoping that
the dissension which exists will be settled in a spirit of fairness to the best
interests of Masonry.

Thanking you for the honor conferred on me and with best of wishes
for your own future welfare, I am,

Fraternally yours,

Chas. T. Holmes,
D.D.G.M. Thirteenth District.

FOURTEENTH DISTRICT.

Peoria, III., August 25, 1904.
Wm. B. Wright, M. W. Grand Master:

My Dear Brother : — I take pleasure in submitting to you, herewith,
my report for the Fourteenth Masonic District of which I have had the
honor of being your representative since February 12 last.

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My appointment, as you are aware, was made to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of our late and lamented brother, Gus. O. Friedrich, who de-
parted this life the 3rd day of last February.

I am pleased to say Brother Friedrich was one of the "Salt of the
Earth," and was dearly beloved by all who knew him. He was a genial,
kind-hearted, and courteous gentleman, a thorough Mason, who lived
according to the teachings of the Order, and the condition in which I find
the lodges of this locality, bespeaks well for his work.

Why these dark shadows are allowed to cross our threshhold and
darken our homes, we know not, but we do know that the All-wise Su-
preme Ruler has some good purpose in view, and we must learn to say,
"Thy will, not mine, be done." We do not altogether lose them if we keep
them in our hearts, and while they rest from their labors, their works fol-
low them. As these loved ones leave us one by one, for the Grand Lodge
above, it is but adding link to link to the Golden Chain that binds heaven
and earth together, and it is ours to look forward to the time when we
shall meet them again, where death and separations are no more.

During the short period that I have filled the position, I have visited
one lodge officially, Washburn No. 421, Washburn, Illinois, and assisted
in the burial of Bro. A. B. Carrithers ; I also visited several of the lodges
of the District unofficially, and found them in good working order, har-
mony prevailing. I also found them working very close to the standard
and all striving toward perfection.

If I can arrange it, I want, in the near future, to have a meeting at
some convenient point, where all the Masters of the District can be pres-
ent, and take part in the work. I am of the opinon that District meetings
on the good old-£ashioned "Methodist order" would create a good feeling,
and bring the lodges of the District into a closer friendship.

Thanking you for the honor you have conferred on me, and congratu-
lating you on your successful administration, and with my kindest per-
sonal regards, I am, Fraternally yours,

John C. Weis,
D.D.G.M. Fourteenth District.

FIFTEENTH DISTRICT.

McLean, III., August 24, 1904.

Wm. B. Wright, M. W . Grand Master:

My Dear Brother : — I take pleasure in submitting my report as your
deputy of this district.

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The fact that I have not been called officially during the year, leads
me to believe that all lodges in the District are laboring in peace and
harmony.

I have had correspondence with all the lodges and visited a few where
I assisted in conferring degrees.

I had the pleasure and profit of attending the School of Instruction at
Springfield where I met the M. W. Grand Master and other prominent
Masons as well as a large number of the brethren of the District.

In conclusion, permit me to thank you for the honor of serving as
your deputy and allow me to congratulate you on your successful admin-
istration of the Masonic affairs of this jurisdiction.

Fraternally yours,

W. N. Ewing,
D.D.G.M. Fifteenth District.

SIXTEENTH DISTRICT.

Onarga, III., August 19, 1904.

Wm. B. Wright, M. W. Grand Master:

My Dear Brother: — It is with pleasure that I again report peace and
prosperity prevailing throughout the Sixteenth District.

My services in an official capacity have been required but once during
the last year and that was to take charge of O. H. Miner Lodge No. 506
during a Masonic trial at your request, of which I made you full report
at the time.

Yet I have visited several lodges during the last year and endeavored
to keep in touch with the Craft generally, and have every reason to believe
the lodges of the Sixteenth District are well equipped with competent offi-
cers and are not only doing good work, but plenty of it on candidates that
will be a credit to them and an honor to our venerable institution.

Kindly thanking you for the honor you have conferred on me and with
best wishes for your personal welfare and for the welfare of the Fra-
ternity, I am, Fraternally yours,

W. H. McClain,
D.D.G.M. Sixteenth District.

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SEVENTEENTH DISTRICT.

Urbana, Illv August 22, 1904.

Wm. B. Wright, M. W. Grand Master:

My Dear Brother: — It is a great pleasure to me to make my first
annual report to you as Grand Master of Masons of Illinois as your Dep-
uty for the Seventeenth District.

On November 7, 1903, I instituted Freewill Lodge, U. D., at Oakwood,
Vermilion county, Illinois, a report of which has already been forwarded
to you.

I have been called but once officially and that was to Pera Lodge
No. 574,. which I answered in person and soon set matters aright and all
has been going nicely with them ever since.

Through your order I visited Lerna Lodge No. 788 and investigated
the trouble there, and from reports received from the W. M., I am glad
to report that everything is in harmony now. I made a report to you at
the time of my visit to the lodge.

I was kept busy during the winter months giving instruction to the
various lodges, installed the officers in several lodges, and attended the
School of Instruction held in Danville, Illinois, February 16, 17, and 18,
1904, and pronounce it one of the best I have ever attended.

I have visited a number of lodges during the year and found them
all doing efficient work.

I have been called during the past year nineteen times to assist in
burying the dead, making a total of seventy-seven Masons I have helped
to lay away.

Thanking you for the appointment as your Deputy and congratulating
you upon your successful administration I remain as ever,
Fraternally yours,

D. E. Bruffett,
D.D.G.M. Seventeenth District.

EIGHTEENTH DISTRICT.

Bement, III., September 4, 1904.

Wm. B. Wright, M. W. Grand Master:

My Dear Brother :— In making this, my twenty-sixth annual report
as District Deputy of the Eighteenth District, I have to say that it has
been the most uneventual year in my experience. I have received no invi-

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tations to visit lodges nor has there been any complaints from lodges of
brethren. If this indicates harmony and prosperity I am glad of it.

With personal regards, I am, Fraternally yours,

C. F. Tenney,
D.D.G.M. Eighteenth District.

NINETEENTH DISTRICT.

Springfield, III., August 31, 1904.

Wm. B. Wright, M. W. Grand Master:

My Dear Brother: — It affords me great pleasure to be able to report
that so far as my observation and information go, peace and prosperity
continue their beneficent reign throughout the Nineteenth Masonic Dis-
trict. I have visited a number of lodges during the past year, though not
as many as I would have liked to.

The holding of a Masonic School in Springfield in the early part of
the year was a great benefit to the officers and members of this and sur-
rounding Districts, inciting them to renewed endeavors to perfect them-
selves in the work of this jurisdiction.

Thanking you for the honor you conferred on me by my appointment,
and with best wishes for your future welfare and prosperity, I remain,

Fraternally yours,

Frank Hudson,
D.D.G.M. Nineteenth District.

TWENTIETH DISTRICT.

Jacksonville, III., August 17, 1904.

Win. B. Wright, M. W. Grand Master:

My Dear Brother : — As the forthcoming session of the Grand Lodge
is not far away, I am reminded that there is due from me a report as to
my stewardship as District Deputy Grand Master of this, the Twentieth
Masonic District.

Peace and harmony prevail throughout the District (with the possible
exception of the matter regarding which I have written you.) As far as I
have been able to inform myself this has been a prosperous year. Many of
the right sort of men have been made Masons. And the grand old insti-

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tution still continues to labor for "The Fatherhood of God, and the
Brotherhood of Man."

I have visited a great many of the lodges during the year now closing,
and have been cordially and fraternally greeted by the brethren. I have
installed the officers of six lodges, and have assisted in conferring thirty-
nine (39) degrees.

Thanking you again for your kindness, and confidence reposed in me
as your deputy, and congratulating you on your efficient management of
the affairs of Ancient Craft Masonry in Illinois, I am

Yours fraternally,

D. B. Hutchison,
D.D.G.M. Twentieth District.

TWENTY-FIRST DISTRICT.

Bowen, III., August 16, 1904.
Wm. B. Wright, M. W. Grand Master:

My Dear Brother: — As your deputy for the Twenty-First District. I
take pleasure in submitting herewith my annual report. Everything has
been moving along so well that it has not been necessary for me to make
any official visits. Early in the Masonic year I was given an official re-
ception by the brethren of Warsaw Lodge, and witnessed the conferring of
the Third Degree by them, which was done in a very creditable manner.
Later on I held a three days school there. I also spent three days with
the brethren of Hancock Lodge No. 20, at Carthage, and am pleased to
say that both lodges are keeping well up with the standard work. I have
visited quite a number of other lodges in a social way, and assisted in the
installation of officers and conferring degrees. Have been called upon to
conduct two Masonic funerals, one at Augusta, and one at Warsaw. I am
more than pleased to report, that as far as I have been able to find out, the
lodges are in a reasonably prosperous condition, and peace and harmony
prevail throughout the district. All of my visits, and associations with the
brethren have been very pleasant, and I have at all times been treated with
the utmost courtesy by the Craft.

Thanking you for the honor conferred, and congratulating you upon
your very successful administration, with kind personal regards, I remain,

Fraternally yours,

Chas. C. Marsh,
D.D.G.M. Twenty-First District.

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TWENTY-SECOND DISTRICT.

Girard, III., August 30, 1904.

Wm. B. Wright, M. W. Grand Master:

My Dear Brother : — I am reminded by the lapse of time, that another
Masonic year is almost at a close, therefore, as your District Deputy Grand
Master for the Twenty-Second District, I take great pleasure in submitting
to you my report of the craft of this District.

During the past year I have visited quite a number of the lodges of my
District and would have visited more of them had not sickness in my
family prevented me from doing so.

I find that all are doing well and that harmony seems to prevail in this
District. All visits have been of a social nature only, therefore by not
being called upon to settle any disputes or grievances we would necessarily
infer that we are in the best of condition.

Most all the lodges are working regularly and the standard work is
being strictly adhered to in almost all the lodges of my District.

On December 31, at your request, I instituted Modesto Lodge, U. D.
I was ably assisted in this work by the brethren of Scottville Lodge No.
426, which is my old lodge. To these brethren I wish to extend my sincere
thanks for their kindness to me in this institution.

This new lodge started with a membership of eight. At that time I
reported to you the work of institution of this lodge, and I said to you
in that report that it was my opinion that this lodge would have a mem-
bership of thirty by next Grand Lodge meeting. I think if you will look
up the records you will find that my judgment was about correct. I can-
not refrain from mentioning to you my deep interest in this lodge, because
of my long and intimate acquaintance with the brethren who constitute
this new lodge.

I also desire to express my deep sorrow because of the death of the
first W. M. of Modesto Lodge, U. D., Bro. Leroy Malcom Nifong. He
was a bright, upright and honorable man and Mason. He had spared no
time and means to qualify himself for the duties of W. M. and I can
truthfully say he was qualified, having passed a very creditable examina-
tion before me prior to his being appointed W. M. of this lodge by the
M. W. Grand Master. He could not be commended too highly. His work
for this lodge and his untiring zeal and efforts to make this lodge a suc-
cess stands out as a monument to the memory of a noble craftsman who
has been called from his labors on earth to that eternal refreshment which
awaits all good Masons. Yet with all this great loss and embarasssment
this lodge still thrives and will be an honor to Masonry.

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Assuring you of my earnest desire to do my duty to the Craft of the
Twenty-Second District, and to work for the good of Masonry generally.

In conclusion I thank you for the appointment as District Deputy for
this District. Wishing you success with the Craft over which you have
been called to preside, I remain, Yours fraternally,

P. F. Clark,
D.D.G.M. Twenty-Second District.

TWENTY-THIRD DISTRICT.

Litchfield, III., September i, 1904.

Wm. B. Wright, M. W . Grand Master:

My Dear Brother: — No matters of great importance to the Craft
have transpired within the boundary of the Twenty-Third District during
the Masonic year.

The laying of the corner-stones for the Carnegie Library Buildings
at Hillsboro and at Litchfield on July 4, by Grand Master were of interest
to the local Craft and much enjoyed.

On June 17, Bromwell Lodge No. 451, located at Assumption, had the
honor and great pleasure to entertain M. W. Bro. James L. Sloan, Grand
Master of Masons of Tennessee. R. W. Bro. A. H. Bell, S. G. W., and the
writer were present. Work was on in Third Degree and an elegant ban-
quet was served.

I have visited several lodges during the year, and so far as I have
observed or learned, prosperity and cordial fraternity prevails.

I beg, M. W. Sir, to congratulate you on your successful administra-
tion of Grand Lodge affairs and to thank you for making me your repre-
sentative in this District. Fraternally yours,

Jno. W. Rose,
D.D.G.M. Tiventy-Third District.

TWENTY-FOURTH DISTRICT.

Toledo, III., August 31, 1904.

Wm. B. Wright, M. W. Grand Master:

My Dear Brother:— I herewith submit you my report as D.D.G.M.
of the Twenty-Fourth District.

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It is a pleasure to report that there has been no occasion for an official
call during the year now ending.

I have visited several lodges for the purpose of installing officers, con-
ferring degrees and being present at Schools of Instruction.

I am glad to report that there have been several Schools of Instruction
held in my district in the past year. The brethren have taken interest in
them and I think have been greatly benefited by the schools.

In all of my visits I have been courteously greeted by the brethren
whom I have had the pleasure of meeting. There has been no discord or
difficulty in any of the lodges in the District during the year, and the Craft
is in a fairly prosperous condition.

Accept my congratulations on your splendid administration, and allow
me to thank you for the honor conferred on me.

Fraternally yours,

Rufus H. Smith,
D.D.G.M. Twenty-Fourth District.

TWENTY-FIFTH DISTRICT.

Clay City, III., September 5, 1904.

Wm. B. Wright, M. W. Grand Master:

My Dear Brother: — It is with pleasure that I can report that peace
and harmony reign supreme in the Twenty-Fifth District. Nothing has
occurred during the year, requiring official intercessions.

The differences which arose in the past, have adjusted themselves, and
a commendable Masonic spirit prevails throughout the District.

Odin Lodge, during the year moved from an unsafe and inadequate
room to a spacious and magnificent hall, and celebrated the occasion bj
the largest gathering of Masons that ever assembled in Marion county.

The Third Degree was conferred on two candidates.

The progress of standard work is marked by the commission of Bro.
H. C. Michaels, Master of Flora Lodge, as Deputy Grand Lecturer during
the year.

Thanking you for the honor conferred on me, and with kind regards,
I am. Fraternally yours,

Anthony Doherty,
D.D.G.M. Twenty-Fifth District.

HARRISON DILLS
Elected M.W. Grand Master 1857

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TWENTY-SIXTH DISTRICT.

Moro, III., September 5, 1904.
JVm. B. Wright, M. IV. Grand Master:

My Dear Brother : — In submitting this my annual report for the year
just ending will say, per your instructions of December 22, I investigated
the request for relief made by Gillham Lodge No. 809 for one of their
members and reported the facts to you at that time.

May 13, as your special deputy, I had the pleasure of instituting Gran-
ite City Lodge, U. D., at Granite City, a full report of which was for-
warded to you in due time. The forty-two members of this lodge named
in the dispensation, together with the visiting brethren from neighboring
lodges, numbering in all about two hundred present at their first meeting,
the brotherly feeling displayed, the hospitality and courteous treatment
shown all visitors then, and the proficient work and additions to their
lodge since, all indicate that, if granted a charter at the next Grand Lodge,
Granite City Lodge will soon rank with the best in this District.

By special invitation I visited Franklin Lodge No. 25, April 23, and
witnessed the conferring of the Master Mason Degree by Past Masters
only, which called back to labor some old members who had not partici-
pated in lodge work in twenty-five years. Of course the work was not all
executed as perfectly as the chairman of the Board of Grand Examiners
and the three Deputy Grand Lecturers, who are all members of Franklin
Lodge, could have done it, but nevertheless the work was impressive and
well done and the meeting was a grand success. It brought out a large
attendance and the old officers that had long ago quit active lodge work
and ended in a love feast that is good for Masonry.

The above, with a few more social visits added, and a number of
questions answered, constitute my labors as your Deputy for the year.

As far as I have been informed peace and harmony and a fair degree
of prosperity prevail throughout this District.

With many thanks for honors conferred and the highest personal re-
gards, I am, Fraternally yours,

William Montgomery,
D.D.G.M. Tiventy-Sixth District.

TWENTY-SEVENTH DISTRICT.

East St. Louis, III., September 2, 1904.
IVni. B. Wright, M. W. Grand Master:

My Dear Brother : — It is with pleasure that I submit my annual re-
port as your deputy for this district, for as far as my information extends
harmony and peace prevail among our brethren and all is well.

74 Proceedings of the [Oct A,

Nothing of any considerable importance has been referred to me and
every lodge I have visited seems to be imbued "with that noble contention
or rather emulation of who best can work and best agree."

We have had a healthful increase of good material and a large major-
ity of our brethren seem to be desirous of learning the standard work.
Several of our earnest Masonic students have been granted commissions
as Deputy Grand Lecturers. In the month of May I had the honor of as-
sisting R. W. Bro. Wm. Montgomery in instituting a new Masonic lodge
at Granite City. On February 22 last East St. Louis Lodge No. 504 had
a Past Masters' night. It was one of the pleasantest events I ever partici-
pated in. Several hundred Craftsmen were present and thirty-two Past
Masters, most of whom assisted in exemplifying the work of the M. M.
degree.

Allow me to congratulate you on the succes of your administration of
the affairs of this Grand Jurisdiction and thanking you most sincerely for
the honor you have placed upon me by making me your official representa-
tive. I remain, Yours fraternally,

Geo. S. Caughlan,
D.D.G.M. Tzventy-Seventh District.

TWENTY-EIGHTH DISTRICT.

Marion, III., August 17, 1904.

Wm. B. Wright, M. W. Grand Master:

My Dear Brother : — I have the honor to submit to you my report as
District Deputy Grand Master for the Twenty-Eighth District for the
Masonic year just drawing to a close.

It is with pleasure to report that I have not been asked for assistance
as District Deputy to settle any differences between the brethren, but all
seem to be in a prosperous condition and harmony prevailing.

The lodges all seem to be desirous of conforming to the standard work.

Congratulating you on your successful and prosperous administration
and thanking you for the honor conferred in my appointment I remain,

Fraternally yours,

J. M. Burkhart,
D.D.G.M. Tzventy-Eighth District.

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TWENTY-NINTH DISTRICT.

Mt. Carmel, September 2, 1904.

Wm. B. Wright, M. W. Grand Master:

My Dear Brother: — I am pleased to report that so far as I am in-
formed, the past year has been one of peace and harmony among the
brethren of the Twenty-Ninth Masonic District. No complaints or trou-
ble of any kind has come to my knowledge, and from reports received am
led to believe that the lodges generally are more active and prosperous
than for many years past, though we still have a few, very few, inactive
and "merely existing" ones with us.

I expected to visit quite a number, if not all the lodges in this District
during the year, but the opportunity never presented itself.

Sincerely thanking you for the honor conferred, I am,
Fraternally yours,

H. T. Goddard,
D.D.G.M. Tzventy-Ninth District.

THIRTIETH DISTRICT.

Cairo, III., August 31, 1904.

Wm. B. Wright, M. W. Grand Master:

My Dear Brother: — I herewith submit my report as District Deputy
for the Thirtieth District.

As most of my work during the Masonic year just closed has been of
a social nature, rather than official, I have little to embody in this, my
annual report. I have had no call to visit officially, and the few questions
submitted to me have been so plainly answered by the Blue Book, that
nothing was required of me but to point out the paragraph or decision gov-
erning the case.

The Craft in this District so far as I am informed, are moderately
prosperous, and harmony seems to prevail throughout the entire District.
I have assisted more than a score of times in conferring the several de-
grees and have found the lodges that I have visited well up in the stand-
ard work.

Thanking you for the honor conferred on me and with the best wishes
for your personal welfare, I am, Fraternally yours,

J. W. Morris,
D.D.G.M. Thirtieth District.

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REPORT OF CRAND EXAMINERS.

Camp Point, III., September 20, 1904.

.1/. IV. ll'm. B. Wright, Grand Master, Effingham, III.:

Dear Brother: — I have the honor to submit herewith, the report of
the attendance at the several schools held during the current year:

Metropolis, January 5, 6 and 7.

Grand Officers.— Bro. Win. B. Wright, M. W. Grand Master; Bro.
A. B. Ashley, R. W. Junior Grand Warden (D. G. L.) ; Bro. J. H. C.
Dill, R. W. Grand Secretary (D. G. L.)

District Deputy Grand Masters. — Bro. J. M. Burkhart, Twenty-Eighth
District.

Board of Grand Examiners. — Bros. H. T. Burnap, Isaac Cutter, H. A.
Snell, M. B. Iott, C. H. Martin.

Deputy Grand Lecturers. — Bros. T. N. Cummings, S. M. Shoemann.

Names registered, 97. Lodges represented, Illinois 14, Indiana 1 and
Kentucky 1.

Fairfield, January 19, 20 and 21.

Grand Officers.— Bro. Wm. B. Wright, M. W. Grand Master; Bro.

J. H. C. Dill, R. W. Grand Secretary (D. G. L.) ; Bro. Walter Watson,

W. Grand Senior Deacon; Bro. J. R. Ennis, W. Grand Sword Bearer
(D. G. L.)

District Deputy Grand Masters. — Bro. J. S. Burns, (D. G. L.) Eleventh
District; Bro. H. T. Goddard, Twenty-Ninth District.

Board of Grand Examiners. — Bros. H. T. Burnap, Isaac Cutter, H. A.
M. B. Iott, C. H. Martin.

Deputy Grand Lecturers. — Bros. W. H. Peak, C. N. Hambleton, T. N.
Cummings, E. W. Eggmann, J. A. Foster, N. M. Mesnard, H. C. Michaels,
C. G. Young.

Names registered 121. Lodges represented, Illinois 31.

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Springfield, February 2, 3 and 4.

Grand Officers.— Bro. Wm. B. Wright, M. W. Grand Master; Bro.
A. H. Bell, R. W. Senior Grand Warden ; Bro. J. H. C. Dill, R. W. Grand
Secretary (D. G. L.) ; Bro. Louis Zinger, W. Grand Marshal; Bro. H. L.
Whipple, W. Grand Pursuivant; Bro. Owen Scott, P. M. W. Grand Mas-
ter, (D. G. L.) ; Bro. Edward Cook, P. M. W. Grand Master; Bro. C. F.
Hitchcock, P. M. W. Grand Master; Bro. George M. Moulton, P. M. W.
Grand Master.

District Deputy Grand Masters. — Bro. C. C. Marsh, (D. G. L.) Twen-
ty-First District; Bro. D. B. Hutchison, (D. G. L.) Twentieth District;
Bro. Frank Hudson, (D. G. L.) Nineteenth District; Bro. J. W. Rose,
(D. G. L.) Twenty-Third District; Bro. W. N. Ewing, Fifteenth District;
Bro. W. D. Fullerton, Ninth District.

Board of Grand Examiners.- — Bros. H. T. Burnap, Isaac Cutter, H. A.
Snell, M. B. Iott, C. H. Martin.

Deputy Grand Lecturers. — Bros. A. H. Scroggins, C. P. Ross, J. B.
Roach, James John, J. C. Weis, W. H. Reid, W. A. Dixon, W. M. Coble,
R. F. Morrow, P. F. Clark, J. M. Willard, D. D. Darrah, G. R. Smith
C. G. Young, Emmet Howard, N. M. Mesnard.

Names registered, 405. Lodges represented, Illinois 88, Indiana 1,
Wisconsin 1, Maine 1, Kansas /, Washington 1.

Danville, February 16, 17 and 18.

Grand Officers.— Bro. C. E. Allen, R. W. Deputy Grand Master (D.
G. L.) ; Bro. A. H. Bell, R. W. Senior Grand Warden; Bro. J. H. C. Dill,
R. W. Grand Secretary (D. G. L.) ; Bro. Owen Scott, P. M. W. Grand
Master (D. G. L.) ; W. M. Burbank, W. Grand Steward (D. G. L.)

District Deputy Grand Masters.— Bro. D. E. Bruffett, (D. G. L?)
Seventeenth District; Bro. W. H. McClain, Sixteenth District; Bro. C. F.
Tenney, (D. G. L.) Eighteenth District.

Board of Grand Examiners. — Bros. H. T. Burnap, Isaac Cutter, H. A.
Snell, M. B. Iott, C. H. Martin.

Deputy Grand Lecturers. — Bros. Louis Pickett, Louis Ladewich, S. S.
Borden, A. Jampolis, R. W. King, W. A. Dixon.

Names registered, 349. Lodges represented, Illinois 51, Indiana 13,
New York 1, Iowa 1, Michigan 4, Oregon 1, N. D. 1.

78 Proceedings of the [Oct. 4.

Aurora, March i, 2 and 3.

Grand Officers.— Bro. A. D. Ashley, R. W. Grand Junior Warden (D.
G. L.) ; Bro. J. H. C. Dill, R. W. Grand Secretary (D. G. L.) ; Bro. L. A.
Goddard, P.M.W. Grand Master (Grand Treasurer) ; Bro. Edward Cook,
P. M. W. Grand Master.

District Deputy Grand Masters. — Bro. Emerson Clark, (D. G. L.)
Twelfth District; Bro. W. D. Fullerton, Ninth District; Bro. J. L. Brew-
ster, Fourth District; Bro. E. E. Beach, (D. G. L.) Third District; Bro.
R. R. Jampolis, (D. G. L.) Second District.

Board of Grand Examiners. — Bros. H. T. Burnap, Isaac Cutter, H. A.
Snell, M. B. Iott, C. H. Martin.

Deputy Grand Lecturers. — Bros. R. L. Evarts, J. B. Roach, C. B.
Ward, J. W. Huntoon, H. S. Albin, J. H. Griffiths, James McCredie, L. B.
Dyer, F. J. Burton, Herbert Preston, Adam Schmidt, W. C. Stilson, H. E.
Van Loon, E. D. Brothers, E. W. Peterson, James John, W. H. Beid,
Henry W. Harvey, A. Jampolis, S. M. Frankland, Albert Roullier, S. S.
Borden, R. H. Wheeler, Wm. Gardner, Albert Davis.

Names registered, 399. Lodges represented, Illinois 68, Massachusetts
2, Maine 1, New York 1, Indiana 1, Nebraska 1, Michigan 1.

The Board of Grand Examiners and the Craft in general regretted
very much the unavoidable absence of the Most Worshipful Grand Mas-
ter from the schools at Danville and Aurora.

At Danville Bro. C. E. Allen, Right Worshipful Deputy Grand Master,
kindly consented to act for him in the exemplification of the ceremonies
and did so with his usual tact and modesty. The Board desires to express
its appreciation of his kindness.

The total number of names registered was 1,371, Illinois lodges repre-
sented 252, Foreign Jurisdiction 37.

At each school the ritual of Masonry, as approved by the Grand Lodge,
was exemplified in full. Since our last report, to the Grand Lodge, the
Board of Grand Examiners have recommended the issuance of commis-
sions to the following:

Bros. W. C. Stilson, J. M. Schollenberger, H. C. Michaels, C. J. Wight-
man Alfred Hall, Peter C. Gray, H. A. Eidson, Wm. Gardner, W. PI. Beid,
Wm. Rothman, Emmet Howard, J. L. Woodruff, J. M. Hedrick, W. E.
Anderson, J. M. Hannum, R. G. Bright, C. N. Mace, W. S. Welch, N. B.
Carson, D. W. Starr, D. Richards, L. J. Frahm, G. E. Carlson, Chas.
Ferguson.

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Of the 106 Deputy Grand Lecturers on January i, but 66 attended a
School of Instruction.

The Board of Examiners regret to record the death of two eminent
members of the Fraternity, Bro. S. G. Jarvis, of Victoria, and Bro. G. O.
Friedrich, both of whom held commissions as Deputy Grand Lecturers,
and were among the oldest on the list. Brother Friederich at the time of
his death was also District Deputy Grand Master.

In conclusion in behalf of the Board of Grand Examiners, I desire to
express to the Most Worshipful Grand Master our appreciation of the
kindness and consideration he has shown us and the active co-operation
he has ever given in all our desires, and has made the whole year's work
a labor of pleasure and we hope of some success.

All of which is respectfully submitted by the Board of Grand Ex-
aminers. By Isaac Cutter, Secretary.

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DEDICATORY ADDRESS OF M. W. BRO. OWEN SCOTT.

(Delivered on the occasion of the dedication of the Illinois Masonic Home

Sept. 8th, 1901)

This day marks an epoch in the Masonic history of Illinois. While
other jurisdictions had provided Homes for worthy, distressed Masons,
their widows and orphans, Illinois had not felt it to be necessary to make
such provision. It was thought better to let each lodge, by the generosity
of its members, care for those who needed assistance. Voluntary charity
supplied the demands felt in later years for systematic provision for aged
and unfortunate Craftsmen and those dependent upon them.

Let it be said to the credit of the Craft that the faithful Mason has
not been "forsaken nor his seed begging bread." Many lodges impover-
ished their treasuries to maintain in comfort brethren who had felt the
stinging rigors of want. Individual Masons contributed liberally of their
means for a worthy distressed brother, his widow or orphan. Often these
burdens were grievous to be borne. Appeals for aid, under the Grand
Master's approval went put and brought excellent returns. The generous
responses of the lodges and the brethren have fully shown the universal
generosity of true Masons.

For almost twenty years the Illinois Masonic Orphans' Home has
been maintained at Chicago with great success and satisfaction to the craft.
This enterprise is a monument to the liberality and unselfishness of those
who have been diligent in season and out in its promotion and mainte-
nance. Many helpless children of Masons who have gone to eternal "re-
freshment in the paradise of God" have been educated, fed and clad and
have grown to useful manhood and beautiful womanhood, who otherwise
might have gone to destruction.

The constant struggle made necessary by individual support of this
Orphans' Home has been a great load for a few zealous Masons to carry.

Recognizing the uncertainty of human affairs, plans were started a
few years ago to establish by voluntary contributions a home for aged and
indigent Masons. Some $9,000 were accumulated for this purpose. Dur-
ing the past few years our wives, mothers, sisters and daughters of the
Eastern Star have established and maintained a home for Masonic wid-
ows at Macon. This institution appealed to our Grand Lodge as doing
so noble a work that a considerable sum was appropriated from the Grand
Lodge treasury to aid this helpful benefaction.

1904] Grand Lodge of Illinois. 81

These various activities led many of our thoughtful and earnest Ma-
sons to desire to see the Grand Lodge of Illinois utilize its great oppor-
tunity to provide for the needy and distressed of our Craft. The movement
did not crystallize at once. It might yet have been delayed but for the
generosity of Bro. Robert A. Miller. In providing for the disposition of
the accumulations from his life's labors, he offered by his will this beau-
tiful farm of 264 acres on condition that the Grand Lodge would erect
and maintain hereon a Masonic Home. Brother Miller desired to provide
for the erection of his own monument, one that would neither crumble nor
decay, but one that would continue through all time as a memorial to the
generosity of all good Masons.

This great gift stirred the Masons to action. It furnished a rallying
point for those who wanted to see our Grand Lodge get into line in or-
ganized benevolence. It gave opportunity for the consideration of the
various endeavors to provide means of meeting the needs that were con-
stantly coming up from the Craft. It was hailed by lodges burdened with
almost more than they could carry in providing for the needs of their
unfortunates.

The result is but common Masonic history of the immediate past.
With great enthusiasm and unanimity the Grand Lodge entered upon
this gracious enterprise. The first step toward its full realization is be-
fore you today in the completion and opening of this building. The plans
adopted contemplate a group of structures sufficient to care for every
needy Mason, his widow and orphans.

The fact that even before the doors are opened to receive our fra-
ternal guests, there are enough applications to tax the present capacity is
proof positive and convincing that the beginning came none too soon. The
liberal responses to the opportunity given for lodges to contribute to the
general furnishings of the Home show the temper of the Craft of Illinois.
They were not solicited but accorded the privilege if they cared to have
a part in this great work for others. From every side, generous responses
have been made, and there will be no lack of proper equipment for every
need.

The zeal and enthusiasm of the brethren of Sullivan Lodge have been
truly commendable. Being no more bound than the members of other
lodges, they yet have willingly rendered invaluable assistance to the Board
of Trustees in their efforts to establish this Home.

The city of Sullivan and the county of Moultrie have secured un-
sought and without cost an institution of which any community would
feel a commendable pride. Its buildings and grounds will be an ornament
and will annually attract many persons within your midst. The Illinois
Masonic Home will make Sullivan known and honored, not only through-

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out Illinois, but wherever Masons congregate and dwell. It, therefore,
places something of an obligation upon the people of this progressive
community to see that the means of ingress and egress are provided. A
good road from the city to the Home is of prime necessity. If the Ma-
sons of this state are willing to supplement the gift of Moultrie's generous
citizen by an expenditure of many thousands of dollars in the erection
and maintenance of this superb beneficence, it would be strange indeed
if the people of this city and county should be found unresponsive in their
reciprocal duties and obligations. Never wanting in public spirit, as the
erection of your new and beautiful temple of justice indicates, it is con-
fidently believed that very speedily means will be provided by which any
obstacle or inconvenience which may exist will be removed.

The future opens in most attractive promises of great blessings to
those who must depend upon their fellows when they cannot care for
themselves. Perhaps none fully comprehends what this day means. Do
you know an aged man who has seen the stays and props of his advanc-
ing years taken from him one by one? His property has gone on the swift
wings of misfortune. His stalwart sons upon whom he had hoped to lean
in the days when the keepers of his house should tremble, have been
touched by death's icy finger. The companion of his youth has grown
weary in life's struggle and the fitful fever has carried her to the silent
city. The old man is alone in the world without money, without family,
with no friend able or willing to give him a home. Truly, such a man is
a most pitiable object. The busy, bustling world is so intent upon its
great enterprises that it merely brushes him into the poor house because
that is the cheapest way to dispose of him.

To a Mason thus unfortunate, here is a heaven on earth. His breth-
ren from their own resources, will see that his needs are supplied. His
lodge will come to his rescue, and finally the Grand Lodge, being but the
aggregate of all the lodges, will swing open the doors of a Masonic Home.
Here our needy, worthy brother may come and feel that he is under the
care and protection of his brethren. Should the messenger of death leave
the widow and orphan of a Mason in want, the generous arms of fra-
ternity will fold about them, and they will rest upon the bosom of our
great brotherhood, secure against the pitiless world.

"It is more blessed to give than to receive." The Masons who thus
school themselves in helping others are to be the great gainers. The de-
pendent, the unfortunate, the suffering may get relief and strength, but
the giver gets the great uplift that comes from the consciousness of serv-
ing his fellow man. We read in the Bible, our great light, that if a man
compel us to go with him one mile, we should go with him two. The first
mile is our duty. The second is our privilege, our joyous service. Who
can estimate the pleasure of the sweet service of the second mile?

1904] Grand Lodge of Illinois. 83

The glorious privilege of doing for others is the sweet aroma of a
beautiful life. Masonry is the cream of unselfish devotion to our fellows.
There is in it no mercenary or selfish gain. No one can make money out
of it without abusing his professions. No ambition can be fostered with-
out going counter to Masonic teachings, for all stand on an absolute equal-
ity. Our fraternity constantly reminds us that the joy of life is not in get-
ting, but in serving. The compensation, therefore, comes in growth of
character and in the opportunity of doing to others as we would they
should do to us.

As the very essence of this spirit of altruism, this achievement we
celebrate today stands forth. The money which erected this building came
first of all from the treasury of the Grand Lodge. Yet it was placed there
by the hands of the members of a craft whose benevolence is as measure-
less as the space bounded by the east and west, the north and south, and
the earth to the highest heaven.

The individual Mason uses his lodge and Grand Lodge as the chan-
nels through which his voluntary and generous offerings may flow to the
great ocean of systematic beneficence. Through his representatives, he
has provided the safe and secure means by which greater things may be
done than could have been possible by the unorganized and scattered ef-
forts of the individual Mason.

Much labor, much annoyance have been the lot of those upon whom
the Grand Lodge placed the duty of launching this Home. The work is
not faultless for where can be found that which is human, that is? This
result as presented today is the best effort of the zealous and faithful
craftsmen who have rendered a cheerful service. Much remains to be
done, but with the momentum of a great brotherhood, loyal to their fel-
lows, difficulties will melt away and a most delightful consummation is in
prospect.

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A motion was made and carried, that the foregoing ad-
dress and accompanying papers be referred to the Committee on
Grand Master's Address.

REPORT- Of the R. W. Grand Treasurer.
The R. W. Grand Treasurer submitted the following re-
port, together with his books and vouchers, and asked that they
be referred to the Committee on Finance. It was so ordered :

Chicago, October i, 1904.
Leroy A. Goddard, Grand Treasurer.

In Account with M. W. Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. M., of Illinois.

General Fund.
1903.

Oct. 5. Balance on hand as per last report $44,544 01

Oct. 31. Received from J. H. C. -Dill, R. W. Grand

Secretary $ 131 50

Nov. 30. Received from J. H. C. Dill, R. W. Grand

Secretary 7 00

Dec. 31. Received from J. H. C. Dill, R. W. Grand

Secretary 424 75

1904.
Feb. 2. Received from J. H. C. Dill, R. W. Grand

Secretary 1,279 2S

Feb. 29. Received from J. H. C. Dill, R. W. Grand

Secretary 216 50

Mch. 31. Received from J. H. C. Dill, R. W. Grand

Secretary 148 50

May 31. Received from J. H. C. Dill, R. W. Grand

Secretary 421 75

June 30. Received from J. H. C. Dill, R. W. Grand

Secretary 23 25

July 30. Received from J. H. C. Dill, R. W. Grand

Secretary 25,5 10 90

Aug. 31. Received from J. H. C. Dill, R. W. Grand

Secretary 13,245 10

Sept. 27. Received from J. H..G Dill, R. W. Grand

Secretary 725 10

42,133 60

Total $86,677 61

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1904.

Oct. I. By mileage and per diem paid officers and
committees since last report, as per vouch-
ers returned herewith $ 3,124 80

Oct. 1. By mileage and per diem paid representa-
tives since last report as per vouchers re-
turned herewith 16,050 20

Oct. 1. By miscellaneous orders paid since last re-
port as per vouchers numbered 117 to 240
both inclusive, except vouchers enumer-
ated here following, paid Grand Officers
and Illinois Masonic Home 9,009 14

Oct. 1. By vouchers paid salaries Grand Officers,
Nos. 130, 131, 133, 134, 146, 147, 160, 161,
185, 186, 195, 196, 202, 203, 207, 208, 217,
218, 224, 225, 229, 230, 238, 239, 240 4,400 00

Oct. 1. By vouchers paid appropriations to Illinois

Masonic Home, Nos. 127, 132, 232 21,000 00

■ 53,584 14

Balance on hand 33,093 47

Total $86,677 61

Charity Fund,
debit.
1903.

Oct. 5. Balance on hand $23,520 09

Oct. 31. Received from J. H. C. Dill, R. W. Grand

Secretary $ 7 00

Nov. 30. Received from J. H. C. Dill, R. W. Grand

Secretary 1200

Dec. 31. Received from J. H. C. Dill, R. W. Grand

Secretary 22 00

1904
Feb. 2. Received from J. H. C. Dill, R. W. Grand

Secretary 40 70

Feb. 29. Received from J. H. C. Dill, R. W. Grand

Secretary . .• 48 50

Mch. 31. Received from J. H. C. Dill, R. W. Grand

Secretary 3§9 25

April 30. Received from J. H. C. Dill, R. W. Grand

Secretary 28 00

May 31. Received from J. H. C. Dill, R. W. Grand

Secretary 14 00

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June 30. Received from J. H. C. Dill, R. W. Grand

Secretary $ 39 00

July 30. Received from J. H. C. Dill, R. W. Grand

Secretary 16,188 40

Aug. 31. Received from J. H. C. Dill, R. W. Grand

Secretary : 8,280 80

Sept. 27. Received from J. H. C. Dill, R. W. Grand

Secretary 246 30

25.315 95

Total $48,836 04

CREDIT.
1904.

Oct. 1. By vouchers herewith paid since last report,

Nos. 1 to 21 both inclusive $17,434 00

17.434 00

Balance on hand 31.402 04

$48,836 04

orphans' home fund.

DEBIT.
1903.

Oct. 8. Received from J. H. C. Dill, R. W. Grand

Secretary $15-000 00

Oct. 31. Received from J. H. C. Dill, R. W. Grand

Secretary 23000

Dec. 31. Received from J. H. C. Dill, R. W. Grand

Secretary 200 00

1904.
Feb. 2. Received from J. H. C. Dill, R. W. Grand

Secretary 100 00

Mch. 31. Received from J. H. C. Dill, R. W. Grand

Secretary 28S 00

April 30. Received from J. H. C. Dill, R. W. Grand

Secretary 200 00

May 31. Received from J. H. C. Dill, R. W. Grand

Secretary 620 00

June 30. Received from J. H. C. Dill, R. W. Grand

Secretary 200 00

July 30. Received from J. H. C. Dill, R. W. Grand

Secretary 100 00

$16,938 00

1904] Grand Lodge of Illinois. 87

CREDIT.
1904.

Jan. 18. Paid for $15,000 Illinois Central R. R. Co.

4 per cent registered bonds $15,000 00

15,000 00
Balance on hand 1,938 00

$16,938 00

HOME FOR AGED FUND.
I904.

Feb. 2. Received from J. H. C. Dill, R. W. Grand

Secretary $ 186 00

Mch. 31. Received from J. H. C. Dill, R. W. Grand

Secretary .... 20 00

April 30. Received from J. H. C. Dill, R. W. Grand

Secretary 6 00

May 31. Received from J. H. C. Dill, R. W. Grand

Secretary 50 00

Jnnet 30. Received from J. H. C. Dill, R. W. Grand

Secretary 30 00

July 30. Received from J. H. C. Dill, R. W. Grand

Secretary 106 00

Sept. 27. Received from J. H. C. Dill, R. W. Grand

Secretary 20 00

Total amount on hand 418 00

Total cash, all funds $66,851 51

In addition to the cash balances reported above, the M. W. Grand
Lodge owns the following securities, all of which are now in my possession
as Grand Treasurer and deposited in safety vault specifically designated
as the property of the M. W. Grand Lodge :

GENERAL FUND.

Twenty U. S. 4 per cent coupon bonds, due 1925, numbered 19,-
451, 26718, 26719, 26721, 26722, 26723, 26724, 45245, 48931,
48933, 60099, 63033, 63034 63035, 63036, 63037, 65467, 65468,
75416, 76495 $20,000 00

Six City of Chicago 4 per cent coupon bonds, due 19 15, num-
bered 1064, 1065, 1066, 1067, 1068, 1069 6,000 00

$26,000 00

SS

Proceedings of the

[Oct. 4,

CHARITY FUND.

One City of Chicago 4 per cent bond, due 1915, No. 388 $ 1,000 00

Eight shares stock, Masonic Fraternity Temple Assn 800 00

$1,800 00
orphans' home fund.

Fifteen registered Illinois Central R. R. Co. 4 per cent gold
bonds, due 1953, numbered 7133, 7134, 7135, 7136, 7137, 7138,
7139, 7140, 7141, 7142, 7143, 7144, 13060, 13086, 13089 $15,000 00

Fifteen Sanitary District of Chicago 4 per cent bonds, due 1919,
numbered 18341, 18342, 18343, 1S344, 18345, 21856, 21857,
2185S, 21859, 21860, 21861, 21862, 21863, 21864, 21865 15,000 00

Five Sanitary District of Chicago 4 per cent bonds, due 1912,

numbered 18568, 18569, 18570, 18571, 18572 5,000 00

Five City of Chicago 4 per cent bonds, due 1912, numbered 66,

67, 68, 69, 70 5,000 00

Eight Mattoon, Illinois, 4 per cent bonds, due 1920, numbered

30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 8,000 00

One note and trust deed due November 1, 1904 1,000 00

$49,000 00

HOME FOR AGED FUND.

Four Lake St. Elevated Ry. 5 per cent bonds, due 1928, num-
bered 3271, 3272, 3273, 3274 $ 4,000 00

Two West Chicago St. Ry. Co. 5 per cent cons, gold bonds,

due 1936, numbered 6674, 7905 2,000 00

One West Chicago St. Ry. Co. 6 per cent debenture bond, due

1914, numbered B 193 1,000 00

One Wabash R. R. Co. 4 per cent bond, due 1941, numbered 1722,

3 per cent interest-bearing certificate 800 00

$8,800 00
Total bonds and securities, all funds $85,600 00

Fraternally submitted,

Leroy A. Goddard,

Grand Treasurer.

EEPOET— Of E. W. Grand Secretary.
The R. W. Grand Secretary submitted the following re-
port and his cash book and ledger, and asked that they be refer-
red to the Committee on Finance. It was so ordered :

1904] Grand Lodge of Illinois. 89

Most Worshipful Grand Master and Brethren of the Grand Lodge:

In accordance with the by-laws of the grand lodge, I herewith sub-
mit my annual report.

ORDERS DRAWN.

Orders have been drawn on the Grand Treasurer at and since the last
annual communication, for the following amounts :

GENERAL FUND.

To mileage and per diem of Officers, Representatives and Com-
mittees $19,175 30

Joseph Robbins, Committee on Correspondence 300 00

Wm. L. Orr, services as Grand Tyler 100 00

Wm. L. Orr, expenses Grand Lodge 67 40

Rent, Studebaker Hall 450 00

Geo. A. Stadler, services as assistant Grand Secretary 25 00

Z. T. Griff en, stenographer 50 00

Pantagraph Printing and Stationery Co., printing reports. . .. 604 00
W. G. Cochran, expense meeting Trustees Masonic Home. .. 24 40
C. F. Hitchcock, expense meeting Trustees Masonic Home. . , 27 98
W. J. Hemstreet & Co., insurance on Grand Lodge parapher-
nalia 815

Expenses Grand Master's office 433 30

Nimrod Mace, envelopes 33 00

Pantagraph Printing and Stationery Co., printing proceed-
ings, etc 2,110 95

Wm. Montgomery, visiting Woburn, relief case 5 25

N. W. Harris & Co., premium and interest on bonds 278 34

Expense Finance Committee, Chicago 27 60

Pantagraph Printing and Stationery Co., binding proceed-
ings, etc 475 32

Bond of Grand Treasurer 75 00

Farson, Leach & Co., Chicago city bonds 548 56

Samuel Charlton, repairs on Apple River Hall 15 00

Pettibone, Sawtell & Co., cash book 2 00

Taxes on Illinois Masonic Home farm 71 09

F. H. Stephens, services in Cleveland lodge case 72 12

J. B. Fithian, expenses in Cleveland lodge case 7 10

L. B. Thomas & Son, insurance on Grand Lodge property. .. 168 00

90 Proceedings of the [Oct. 4,

Expense Finance Committee, Bloomington $ 50 20

Lexington Quartet 96 80

Win. B. Wright, salary as Grand Master 1,500 00

Leroy A. Goddard, salary as Grand Treasurer 400 00

J. H. C. Dill, salary as Grand Secretary 2,500 00

Pantagraph Printing and Stationery Co., miscellaneous print-
ing 66540

Expense Grand Secretary's office, postage 295 00

Expense Grand Secretary's office, incidentals 174 44

W. H. Marquam, engrossing commissions 41 30

United States Express Co 261 03

American Express Co 354 76

Expense Grand Examiner's School at Metropolis 247 40

Expense Grand Examiner's School at Fairfield 214 90

Expense Grand Examiner's School at Springfield 188 85

Expense Grand Examiner's School at Danville 207 85

Expense Grand Examiner's School at Aurora 231 65

Illinois Masonic Home 1,000 00

Illinois Masonic Home 15,000 00

Illinois Masonic Home 5,000 00

Total $53,584.44

CHARITY FUND.

Charity, Mrs. Harrison Dills $ 60 00

Charity, Illinois Masonic Orphans Home 16,000 00

Farson, Leach & Co., for city bonds 500 00

Charity, Geo. W. Staley 509 00

Charity, U. M. Humble 65 00

Charity, Jesse Green 50 00

Charity, Edward A. Yeck 100 00

Charity, Chas. R. Grubaugh 100 00

Charity, W. D. Overholdt 50 00

Total $17,434.00

I herewith submit an itemized account of all moneys received by me
as Grand Secretary during the past year.

All of which is fraternally submitted.

J. H. C. DILL, Grand Secretary.

1P04J

Grand Lodge of Illinois.

91

J. H.

GRAND SECRETARY'S REPORT.
C. Dill, Grand Secretary, in account with
M. W. Grand Lodge of Illinois, A. F. and A.

TO LODGE DUES FOR THE YEAR 1904.

M., Dr.

LODGES.

NO.

DUES.

LODGES.

NO

DUES.

1

2
3

4
7
8
9
13
14
15
16
17
19
20
23
24
25
27
29
31
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
55
57
58
59
60
61
63
64
65
66
67
69
71
72
74

75

76

77
78
79

$ 166 50
23 40
142 20

156 60
16.! 90
396 00

76 50
89 10
37 81

383 40
• 57 60

157 50
126 00

98 10
101 40
109 80

68 40
126 00

86 40

85 50
361 )-0

91 80
111 60

46 80
119 70
261 00

51 30
170 10
274 50
197 10

80 10
54 00

608 40

25 20
66 60
63 00

1H 50

78 30
40 50
93 60
45 00

196 20

79 20
62 10

217 80

52 20

77 40
85 50
74 70
52 20
97 20

45 90

81 00

46 80
57 60
39 60
77 40

273 60
233 10

26 10

Whitehall

80

81

84

85

86

87

88

89

90

91

9i

93

95

96

97

98

99

100

102

103

104

105

106

108

109

110

111

112

113

114

115

116

117

118

119

122

123

124

125

126

127

128

129

130

131

132

133

134

135

136

137

138

139

140

141

142

143

144

145

146

$ 64 80

63 00

DeWitt

133 20

Mitchell

70 20

Friendship

31 50

Mt. Pulaski

57 60

77 40

Fellowship

75 60

156 60

73 80

Toulon

116 10

58 50

48 60

38 70

252 00

St. Clair

Taylor

69 30

Edwardsville

Astoria

80 10
51 30

254 70

49 50

66 60

55 80

80 10

Trenton

Lebanon

Jonesboro

56 70

39 60

38 70

55 80
59 40

Mt. Joliet

44 10

44 10

56 70

45 00

Temple

Elgin

217 80

Caledonia

Waverly

65 70

Unity

55 80

121 50

Mt. Moriah

Cedar

42 30
112 50

Benevolent

Empire

32 40

70 20

Washington

50 40

Trio

Raleigh

Greenfield

38 70

51 30

New Boston

Marion

Golconda

65 70
45 90

36 90

St. Marks

Marshall

Sycamore

64 80

132 30

Euclid

38 70

Hutsonville

Polk

20 70

Acacia

74 70

62 10

63 90

Chester

72 00

Garden City

Ames

Richmond

DeKalb

861 30

Roscoe

54 90

Mt. Nebo

53 10

128 70

59 40

Scott

37 80

92

Proceedings of the

[Oct. 4,

LODGE DUKS FOR the year 1904. — Continued.

Clayton

Bloomfield

Ettlngham

Vienna

Bunker Hill

Fidelity

Clay

Russell

Alpha

Delavan

Urbana

McHenr y

Kewanee

Waubansia

Virden

Hope

Edward Dobbins

Atlanta

Star in the East

Milford

Nunda

Evergreen

Girard

Wayne

Cherry Valley. . .

Lena

Matteson

Mendota

Staunton

Illinois Central.

"Wabash

Moweaqua

Germariia .

Meridian

Abingdon

Mystic Tie

Cyrus

Fulton City

Dundee

Farmington

Herrick

Freedom

La Harpe

Louisville

King Solomon's

Homer

Sheba

Centralia

Lavely

Flora

Corinthian

Fairfield

Tamaroa

Wilmington

Wm. B. Warren.

Logan

Cleveland

Shipman

Ipava

Gillespie

Newton

Mason

New Salem

Oakland

Mahomet

147

$ 50 40

148

109 SO

149

55 80

150

58 50

151

54 00

15a

37 80

153

35 10

154

51 00

155

165 60

156

60 SO

157

216 90

158

47 70

159

142 20

160

244 80

161

90 00

162

59 40

164

64 80

165

59 40

166

240 30

168

61 20

169

52 20

170

97 2d

171

68 40

172

45 90

173

55 80

174

55 80

175

270 90

176

79 20

177

67 50

178

84 60

179

37 80

180

54 00

182

211 50

183

40 50

185

72 90

187

61 20

188

69 30

189

60 30

190

90 90

192

94 50

193

27 9..

194

45 00

195

117 90

196

63 00

197

49 50

199

76 50

200

22 50

201

141 30

203

54 90

204

66 60

205

50 40

206

76 50

207

39 60

208

72 i 0

209

358 20

210

161 10

211

468 90

212

25 20

213

52 20

214

31 50

216

66 60

317

2"-. 20

218

33 30

219

73 80

220

32 40

Leroy

Geo. Washington.

Pana

Columbus

Lovington

Manchester

New Haven

Wyanet

Farmers

Blandinsville

DuQuoin

Dallas City

Charter Oak

Cairo.

Black Hawk.
Mt. Carmel.
Western Star.
Shekinah.
Galva..

Horicon

Greenville

IE1 Paso

Rob Morris

Golden Gate

iHibbard

Robinson

I Hey worth

Aledo

Avon Harmony.

Aurora

Donnelson

Warsaw

Mattoon

Amon

Channahon

Illinois

Franklin Grove.

Vermilion

Kingston

La Prairie

Paris

Wheaton.

Levi Lusk.

Blaney

Carmf.

Miners .

Byron.

Milton .

Elizabeth .

Accordia.

Jo Daviess.

Neoga.

Kansas.

Brooklyn.

Meteor.

Catlin.

Plymouth.

De Soto.

Genoa

Wataga.

Chenoa.

Prophetstown.

Pontiac.

Dills.

Quincy.

22l

$ 58 50

2.2

92 70

226

151 20

227

17 10

228

79 20

229

27 00

230

56 70

231

38 70

232

41 40

233

87 30

234

90 90

235

48 60

236

77 40

237

125 10

238

47 70

239

105 30

240

207 00

241

81 00

243

89 10

244

85 50

245

78 30

246

81 00

247

52 20

248

56 70

249

35 10

250

59 40

251

64 80

252

121 50

253

34 20

254

214 20

255

29 70

257

58 50

260

186 30

261

34 20

262

35 10

263

302 40

2-i4

21 60

265

45 00

266

38 70

267

36 90

268

150 30

269

84 60

270

24 30

271

145 80

272

61 20

273

108 90

274

41 -40

275

51 30

276

18 90

277

81 00

278

97 20

279

57 60

280

44 10

282

57 60

283

81 90

2S5

93 60

286

72 00

287

71 10

288

81 00

291

32 40

292

68 40

293

88 20

294

101 70

295

24 30

296

146 70

1904]

Grand Lodge or Illinois.

93

LODGE DUES FOR the year 1904.— Continued.

Benjamin

Wauconda

Hinckley

Durand

Raven

Onarga

W. C. Hobbs

T. J. Pickett

Ashlar ,

Harvard

Dearborn

Kilwinning

Ionic

York

Palatine

Abraham Jonas.
J. L. Anderson. .

Doric

Creston

Dunlap

Windsor

Orient

Harrisburg

Industry

Altona

Mt. Erie

Tuscola

Tyrian

Sumner

Schiller

New Columbia. .

Oneida

Saline

Kedron

Full Moon

Summerfield —

Wenona

Milledgeville

N. D. Morse

Sidney

Russellville

Sublette

Fairview

Tarbolton

Groveland

Kinderhook

Ark and Anchor

Marine

Hermitage

Orion

Blackberry

Prince ville

Douglas

Noble

Horeb

Tonica

Bement

Areola

Oxford

Jefferson

Newman

Livingston

Chambersburg. .

Shabbona

Aroma

237

$ 76 50

298

34 20

301

45 00

302

51 30

203

29 7U

305

59 40

306

67 50

307

82 80

308

452 70

309

103 50

310

560 70

311

477 90

312

184 50

313

45 0J

314

67 50

316

27 90

318

68 40

319

191 70

320

46 80

321

89 10

322

63 00

323

35 10

325

104 40

327

54 00

330

41 40

331

21 60

332

86 40

333

177 30

334

90 00

335

115 20

336

48 60

337

69 30

339

17 10

340

28 80

341

51 30

342

14 40

344

44 10

345

67 50

346

13 50

347

36 90

348

29 70

349

13 50

350

38 70

351

104 40

352

22 50

353

29 70

354

67 50

355

41 40

356

59 40

358

26 10

359

58 50

360

55 80

361

30 60

362

41 40

363

69 30

364

47 85

365

74 70

366

89 10

367

43 20

368

18 00

369

73 80

371

• 72 00

373

20 70

374

40 50

378

13 50

Payson

Liberty

Gill

LaMoille

Waltham

Mississippi

Bridgeport

El Dara

Kankakee

Ashmore

Tolono

Oconee

Blair

Jersey ville

Muddy Point...

Shiloh

Kinmundy

Buda

Odell

Kishwaukee . . .

Mason City

Batavia

Ramsey

Bethalto

Stratton

Thos. J. Turner

Mithra

Hesperia

Bollen

Evening Star..

Lawn Ridge

Paxton

Marseilles

Freeburg

Reynoldsburg. .

Oregon

Washburn

Landmark

Lanark

Exeter

Scottville

Red Bud

Sunbeam

Chebanse

Kendrick

Summit

Murray ville

Annawan

Makanda

Philo

Chicago

Camargo

Sparland

Casey

Hampshire

Cave-in-Rock..
Chesterfield....

Watseka

S. D. Monroe. ..

Yates City

Mendon

Loami

Bromwell

New Hartford. .
Maroa

379
380
382
383
384
385
386
388
389
390
391
392
393
394
396
397
398
399
401
402
403
404
405
406
408
409
410
411
412
414
415
416
417
418
419
420
421
422
423
424
426
427
428
429
430
431
432
433
434
436
437
440
441
442
443
444
445
446
447
448
449
450
451
453
454

$ 64 80
25 20

22 50

23 40
54 90

145 80
45 90
35 10

155 70

44 10
57 60

31 50
321 30

81 00

32 40

35 10

51 30
39 60
25 20
47 70
85 50

82 80
47 70
29 70

45 90
206 10

115 20
477 00

29 70
49 50

36 yo

90 90
88 20

29 70

30 60

116 10
39 60

291 60
60 30
29 70
54 90
25 20
72 00

45 90
34 20
28 80
21 60

46 80
60 30
57 60

367 20
54 90
42 30
54 90
69 30

27 00

47 70
122 40

18 90

46 80

47 70
45 00

52 20

28 80
88 M

94

Proceedings of the

[Oct. 4,

LODGE dues for the year 1904.— Continued.

Irving

Nokomis

Blazing Star

Jeffersonville

Plainview

Tremont

Palmyra

Denver

Huntsville

Cobden

South Macon

Cheney's Grove —

McLean

Rantoul

Kendall

Amity

Gordon

Columbia

Walsh ville

Manito

Rutland

Pleiades

Wyoming

Momence

Lexington

Edgewood

Xenia

Bowen

Andrew Jackson. .

Clay City

Cooper

Shannon

Martin

Liberty ville

Tower "Hill

Stone Fort

Colchester

Alma

Murphvsboro

St. Paul

Stark

Woodhull

Odin

East St. Louis

Meridian Sun. . . .

O. H. Miner

Home

Parkersburg

J. D. Moody

Wade-Barney

Bradford

Andalusia

Litchfield

Abraham Lincoln

Rose ville

Anna

Illiopolis

Monitor

Chatham

Evans

Delia

Covenant

Rossville

Minooka

Adams

455
456
458
460
461
462
463
464
465
466
467
468
469
470
471
472
473
474
475
476
477
478
479
481
482
484
485
486
487
488
489
490
491
492
493
495
496
497
498
500
501
502
503
504
505
506
508
509
510
512
514
516
517
518
519
520
521
522
523
524
525
526
527
52S
529

6 32 40
54 00
23 40

33 30
22 50

34 20
58 50
28 80
27 90

45 00

66 60
47 7.J
84 60
51 30

67 50
82 80
25 20
34 20

16 20
27 90

37 80
483 30

87 30

88 20
47 70
36 00

22 50

46 80
19 80

60 30
25 20
44 10

17 10
99 00
54 90
63 9P
84 60
31 50

121 50

159 30
36 90
40 50
36 90

186 30
73 80
63 90

450 00

23 40

18 90
147 60

39 60
31 50

40 50
34 20
44 10
78 30

61 20
281 70

56 70
277 20

18 90
730 80

98 10

40 50

38 70

Maquon

Ashton

Seneca

Altamont

Cuba

Sherman

Plainfield

J. R. Gorin

Lockport

Chatsworth . . .

Oak Park

Stewardson ...

Towanda

Cordova

Virginia

Valley

Sharon

Long Point. .. .

Plum River

Humboldt

Dawson

Lessing

Leland

Thomson

Madison

Trinity

Winslow

Pleasant Hill.

Albany

Frankfort. ...

Time

Jacksonville. .

Bardolph

Gardner

Pera

Capron

O'Fallon

Viola

Prairie City..
Hazel Dell....

Dongrola

Shirley

Highland

Vesper

Fisher

Princeton

Troy

Fairmount

Gilman

Fieldon

Miles Hart —
Cerro Gordo..

Farina

Watson

Clark

Hebron

Streator

Piper

Sheldon

Union Park ..
Lincoln Park.
Rock River. .

Patoka

Forrest

Wadley

5?0
531
532
533
534
535
536
537
538
539
540
541
542
543
544
547
550
552
554
555
556
557
558
559
560
562
564
565
566
567
569
570
572
573
574
575
576
577
578
580
581
582
583
584
585
587
588
590
591
592
595
600
601
602
603
604
607
608
609
610
611
612
613
614
616

$ 36 90

44 10
36 90

26 10
59 40
47 70
91 80
33 30
83 70
22 50

284 40

20 70
16 20

22 50
54 00

45 00
69 30

16 20
103 50

93 60

43 20
137 70

27 90

38 70

23 40
56 70

39 60

21 60
66 60
32 40
30 60

114 30
27 00
54 00
36 00
54 90
36 90

46 80

32 40
21 60

17 10
36 90

33 30
199 80

29 70
113 40
27 90

47 70

45 90

18 90

46 80
69 30
52 20
27 00
68 40

44 10
165 60

63 90
66 60
594 00
514 80
198 00
56 70
65 70

47 70

1904]

Grand Lodge of Illinois.

95

LODGE DUES FOR THE year 1904. — Continued.

Milan

Basco

Berwick

New Hope

Hopedale

Locust

Union

Tuscan

Norton

Ridge Farm

E. F. W. Ellis ...

Buckley

Rochester

Peotone

Keystone

Comet

Apollo

D. C. Cregier

Oblong City

San Jose

Somonauk

Blueville

Camden

Atwood

Greenview

Yorktown

Mozart

Lafayette

Rock" Island

Lambert

Grand Chain

South Park

Mayo

Beecher City

Crawford

Erie

Burnt Prairie...

Herder

Fillmore

Eddyville

Normal

Waldeck

Pawnee

A. O. Fay

Enfield

Illinois City

Clement

Morrisonville . . .

Blue Mound

Burnside

Gallatia

Rio

Garfield

Orangeville

Clifton

Englewood

Iola

Raymond

Herrin's Prairie

ShilohHill

Belle Rive

Richard Cole...

Hutton

Pleasant Plains.
Temple Hill

617
618
619
6-20
622
623
627
630
631
632
633
634
635
636
639
641
642
643
644
645
646
647
648
651
653
655
656
657
658
659
660
662
664
665
666
667
668
669
670
672
673
674
675
676
677
679
680
681
682
683
684
685
686
687
688
690
691
692
693
695
696
697
698
700
701

$ 54 00

18 00
12 60

17 10

53 10
29 70
22 50
33 30
44 10
73 80

110 70
24 30

28 80
*9 60

280 80

44 10
422 10
355 50

46 80

29 70
75 60

45 (0
61 20

44 10

54 00
69 30

68 4(1

19 80
142 20
175 50

29 70
157 50

35 10

18 00

20 70

52 20

40 50
189 90

59 40

28 80
71 10

189 00

69 30
90 90

45 90
42 30

41 40

55 80

66 60

67 50

36 90
67 50

512 10
41 40

41 40
587 70

29 70
49 50
44 10
36 90

18 00
328 50

42 30

53 10

19 80

Alexandria. ..
Braidwood . . .

Ewing

Joppa

Star

Farmer City..
Providence . .
Collinsville. ..
Johnsonville .

Newtown

Elvaston

Calumet

Arcana

May

Chapel Hill...

Rome

Walnut

Omaha

Chandlerville

Rankin

Golden Rule..

Raritan^

Waterman . . .
Lake Creek. ..

Eldorado

Harbor

Carman

Gibson

Morning Star

Sheridan

Arrowsmith. .

Saunemin

Lakeside

New Holland.

Danvers

Scott Land...

Goode

Winnebago .. .

Weldon

Centennial —

Alta

Akin

Lyndon

Lounsbury ...

Allendale

Ogden

Pre-emption.
Hardinsville..

Verona

Mvstic Star. . .

Orel

Sibley

Van Meter —

Crete

Sullivan

Palace

Littleton

Triluminar

Mizpah

St. Elmo

LaGrange

Bay City

New Burnside

Mansfield

Lake View

NO.

DUES.

702

$ 53 10

704

144 00

705

18 00

706

26 10

709

146 70

710

85 50

711

102 60

712

49 50

713

46 80

714

66 60

715

16 20

716

166 50

717

297 90

718

24 30

719

37 80

721

36 90

722

67 50

723

38 70

724

53 10

725

56 70

726

594 90

727

30 60

728

31 50

729

42 30

730

33 30

731

268 20

732

27 90

733

75 60

734

180 00

735

54 90

737

20 70

738

54 90

739

275 40

741

14 40

742

28 80

743

29 70

744

38 70

745

33 30

746

40 50

747

36 00

748

48 60

749

45 00

750

45 (0

751

52 20

752

21 60

754

94 50

755

62 10

756

22 50

757

45 90

758

313 20

759

47 70

761

20 70

762

37 80

763

48 60

764

97 20

765

230 40

766

18 90

767

198 90

768

409 50

769

58 50

770

137 70

771

19 80

772

22 50

773

36 00

774

276 30

96

Proceedings of the

[Oct. 4,

LODGE dues FOR the year 1904.— Continued.

780
782
783
784

Grand Crossing 776

Ravenswood [777

Gurney

Wright's Grove

Siloam

Potomac

Constantia

Beacon Light

Riverton Union 7

Morris

Lerna

Auburn Park

Pittstield

Broadlands

Calhoun

A. T. Darrah

Tadmor ,

Mvrtle

E. M. Husted

Normal Park

Sidell

Colfax 799

Kenwood 800

Sangamon 801

Williamson 803

Neponset 803

Kensington 804

S. M. Dalzell 805

Nebo 806

Royal 807

Cornland 808

Gillham 809

Tracy 810

Melvin 811

DeLand 812

Humboldt Park 813

Ohio 814

Lawn 815

Ridgwav 816

Creal Springs 817

Ben Hur 818

Columbian 819

Henderson 820

New Canton 821

Belknap 833

Pearl 823

$179 10
266 40

33 30
245 70
291 60

37 80
151 20
76 50
52 20
52 20
32 40
314 io
90 00
45 90
30 60

28 80
22 50

130 50

54 00

36S 10

32 40
45 00

448 20
30 60
52 20

34 20
171 00

89 10
36 00

17 10
30 60
30 60
92 70

33 30
26 10

228 60

18 00
88 20

29 70
28 80

171 00
179 10
39 60
36 90
36 00
57 60

Grove

Arthur

Mazon

Sequoit

Edgar

Rockport ,

Finlay

Magic City

Dean

Toledo

Triple

Windsor Park...

Hindsboro

Charity

Berwyh

Alto Pass

Woodlawn Park.

Fides ,

Park

Hopewell

Martinton

Bluffs

Stronghurst

London

Palestine

Austin

Chicago Heights.

Gothic

Latham

Brighton Park...

King Oscar

West Gate

Boyd D

Utica

Apple River ....

Metropolitan

Sorento

Riverside

St. Andrews

Olympia

St. Cecilia

West Salem

Chadwick

Cornell

May wood

Lostant

824

829
830
831
832
833
834
835
836
837
838
839
840
841
842
843
844
845
846
847
848
849
850
851
852
853
854
855
856
857
858
859
860
861
863
863
864
865
866
867

870

$81 00
39 60
54 00

51 30
38 Tl)
43 20
65 70
83 70

34 20

52 20
50 40

133 20
45 90

32 40
81 90
29 70

224 10
117 00
253 80

33 30

28 80

29 70
25 20
25 20
25 20

251 10
90 90
92 70

35 10
100 80
180 90

32 40
42 30
27 90
22 50
114 30
18 90
35 10
107 10
157 50
90 Oo
27 90
35 10
17 10
51 30
29 70

1904] Grand Lodge of Illinois. 97

DUES PRECEDING YEARS.

Olive Branch, 38 $ 90

Hardin. 44 180

Carrollton, 50 90

Marion, 130 90

Vienna, 150 1 50

Hope, 162 1 50

Illinois Central, 178 90

Dallas City, 235 90

Keyworth, 251 3 60

Vermilion, 265 1 50

Kansas, 280 1 50

Wataga, 291 90

Chenoa,292 90

Dills, 295 90

Wauconda, 298 90

Tyrian, 333 2 70

Bement, 365 90

Liberty, 380 90

Waltham, 384 90

Batava, 404 1 80

Amity. 472 90

Pleiades, 478 180

Liberty ville, 492 2 10

Home, 508 90

Lessing, 557 4 50

Watson, 602 2 85

Streator, 607 90

Rock River, 612 ... 7 20

Blueville, 647 90

Rankin, 725 7 20

Columbia, 819 90

Chicago Heights, 851 1 80

$58 65

DUES FROM LODGES U. D.

September 1, 1904, Argenta $31 50

September 1, 1904, Free Will 13 50

September 1, 1904, Standard 4140

September 1, 1904, Modesto 17 10

September 1, 1901, Corner-Stone 28 80

September 1, 1904, William McKinley 19 80

September 1, 1904, Granite City 25 20

$177 30

DISPENSATION FEES.

Free Will, U. D $100 00

Standard. U. D 100 00

Modesto, U. D 100 00

Corner-Stone, U. D 100 00

William McKinley, U. D 100 00

Granite Citv, U. D 100 00

Wheeler, U. D 100 00

Equity. U. D 100 00

$800 00

98 Procfi'dittf/s of the LOct. 4,

RECAPITULATION.

GENERAL FUND.

Dues collected previous to 1902 $12 45

Dues collected for 1902 8 40

Dues collected for 1903 2310

Dues collected for 1904 38.670 35

Dues collected from lodges U. D 177 30

Special dispensation by G.M. Geo. M. Moulton 12 00

Special dispensation by G.M. Wm. B. Wright 203 00

Dispensation fees for lodges U. D 800 00

Grand Lodge By laws sold 2375

Books of Ceremonials sold 9 25

Grand Lodge Proceedings sold 26 50

Interest on government bonds 800 00

Interest on city of Chicago bonds 230 00

Commission on purchase of bonds 37 50

Rent of Illinois Masonic Home farm 1,088 00

Duplicate charter Jackson Lodge No. 53 5 00

M. and P. D. returned by representative

LodgeNo.711 700

Total $42,133 60

CHARITY FUND.

Dues collected for 1903 $14 70

Dues collected for 1904 24,610 60

Unexpended balance voted Geo. W. Staley

returned 36525

Interest on city of Chicago bond 30 00

Du^s from defunct lodges 90 40

Certifying diplomas 192 00

Defunct lodge supplies sold 5 00

Dividend on Temple stock 8 00

Total $25,315 95

ILLINOIS MASONIC ORPHANS' HOME FUND.
Ludwig Wolff, President Illinois Masonic Or-
phans Home $15.000 00

Interest on drainage bonds 800 00

Interest on city of Chicago bonds 200 00

Interest on Mattoon township bonds 320 00

Interest on Illinois Central railroad bonds.. 300 00

Interest on M. & A. Wisemann note 30 00

Donation from Harbor Lodge No. 731 288 00

Total $16,938 00

HOME FOR AGED FUND.

Interest on street railroad bonds $360 00

Interest on Wabash railroad bonds 40 00

Interest on certificate of deposit 18 00

Total $418 00

Grand total $84,805 55

IRA A. W. BUCK

Elected M.W.Grand Master 1858—1859-1860

1904] Grand Lodge of Illinois. 99

COMMITTEES.
The M. W. Grand Master announced the appointment of
the following named brethren to serve on the various commit-
tees during the present session :

APPEALS AND GRIEVANCES.

Monroe C. Crawford, Joseph E. Dyas, Wm. S. Cantrell, Henry E. Hamil-
ilton, Herbert Preston.

CHARTERED LODGES.

James L. Scott, L. K. Byers, W. W. Watson, Thomas W. Wilson,
D. D. Darrah.

CORRESPONDENCE.

Joseph Robbins.

CREDENTIALS.

J. I. McClintock, P. W. Barclay, Geo. W. Cyrus.

FINANCE.

George M. Moulton, Gil. W. Barnard, Samuel W. Waddle.

GRAND MASTER'S ADDRESS.

William E. Ginther, J. H. Mitchell, C. H. Morrell.

LODGES UNDER DISPENSATION.

Daniel J. Avery, H. C. Mitchell, R. T. Spencer, John Johnston, I. H. Todd.

JURISPRUDENCE.

John M. Pearson, John C. Smith, Owen Scott, Edward Cook, Charles F.

Hitchcock.

MILEAGE AND PER DIEM.

John A. Ladd, W. F. Beck, George W. Tipsword.

OBITUARIES.

Elmer D. Brothers, Frank W. Havill, Sidney S. Breese.

PETITIONS.

C. M. Forman, Ben Hagle, Charles G. Young.

RAILROADS AND TRANSPORTATION.

J. O. Clifford, John Whitley.

TO EXAMINE VISITORS.

H. T. Burnap, Isaac Cutter, Hugh A. Snell, M. Bates Iott, Charles H.

Martin.

100 Proceedings of the [Oct. 4,

EEPOET-Committee on M. W. Grand Master's Address.
Bro. W. E. Ginther, chairman Committee on M. W.
Grand Master's Address, presented the following report. On
motion it was adopted :
To the M. IV. Grand Lodge of Illinois, A. F. and A. Masons:

Your committee have carefully examined and considered the M. W.
Grand Master's address and beg leave to report and recommend :

That all of "Necrology" be referred to the Committee on Obituaries.

To the Committee on Finance all relating to "Revenue" and to the
salaries of our unfortunate Brother Orr, the Bro. Grand Tyler, and of
Brother Gurney, the Bro. Grand Tyler pro tern.

To the Committee on Lodges U. D. all pertaining to these lodges and
their institution.

To the Committee on Appeals and Grievances the complaint of Water-
loo Lodge No. 63, of Wisconsin, against Mendon Lodge No. 449, of Illi-
nois, for alleged violation of its jurisdiction, and the case of Cleveland
Lodge No. 211 and its Worshipful Master.

To the Committee on Correspondence the requests for recognition
by the Grand Orient and Supreme Council of Brazil, and by the Grand
Lodge of Western Australia.

To the Committee on Masonic Jurisprudence the M. W. Grand Mas-
ter's decisions.

Inasmuch as the future safety, well-being and permanence of our Ma-
sonic Homes at Sullivan and in Chicago depend upon a practical and eco-
nomical management, which should be regulated and guarded by law ;
and as the Special Committee on Revision of the Grand Lodge By-Laws
as well as the Board of Trustees are fully alive to these necessities, and
the former have formulated a concordant code for your consideration and
final adoption, your Committee recommend that that part of the M. W.
Grand Master's address relating to these "Homes" be referred to said Spe-
cial Committee on Revision.

Your committee share the M. W. Grand Master's opinion that the
"impressive and eloquent address of M. W. Bro. Owen Scott," delivered
at the recent dedication of the Masonic Home at Sullivan, "should be pre-
served of record." It is instructive and will be of profit to the Craft and
withal to the cause of charity. We therefore recommend that it be printed
with the "Proceedings."

Your committee further recommend that the M. W. Grand Master's
action in deposing the Worshipful Master of Waldeck Lodge No. 674 from

190-4] Grand Lodge of Illinois. 101

office for causes confessed by him, and to the satisfaction of all parties,
be sustained, and that the deposition be made permanent.

Also, that his direction to Genoa Lodge No. 288 to adjust the alleged
violation of the jurisdiction of Samaritan Lodge No. 105, of Indiana, sat-
isfactory to the latter, be approved, together with his recommendation that
Hutton Lodge No. 698 be listed in the Twenty-fourth instead of in the
Seventeenth District, as heretofore ; and that the payments for the relief
of Mrs. Harrison Dills of five dollars each month out of the Charity Fund,
authorized by the M. W. Grand Lodge last year, be continued as long as
needed.

Your committee further recommend that all the other acts of the
M. W. Grand Master, in pursuance of his constitutional duties, be form-
ally approved. These are appointments and installations of M. W. Grand
Lodge Officers ; appointments of District Deputy Grand Masters and Dep-
uty Grand Lecturers; laying of corner-stones; dedications; constitution
of lodges; holding schools of instruction; issuing of charters; appoint-
ment of Grand Representatives ; fraternal assistance, by the Committee on
Charity; warning against clandestine Masonry, and sustaining the Masonic
Board of Relief for Cook county ; which, he says, is "in every way wor-
thy of our confidence and support."

In conclusion, your committee are mindful of their duty to call your
attention to the arduous labors performed by the M. W. Grand Master,
much of which, and also those of his predecessors, could have been avoided
had the officers and members of the lodges consulted the By-Laws instead
of taking his time and bothering him by asking questions unnecessarily.

Also, to the prevalence of universal peace and harmony throughout
this Grand Jurisdiction, owing in a great measure to the M. W. Grand
Master's happy way of smoothing the ruffles. He says that in "about sixty
other matters of complaint" an "amicable settlement was secured and where
that was not possible the decision of the M. W. Grand Master was in every
instance acquiesced in ;" which is positive proof that they were always
(W) right and that he is the (W) right man in the right place.

Your committee also desire to emphasize that the M. W. Grand Mas-
ter's praise of our R. W. Grand Secretary. That the latter "was able as
early as the ninth day of September to close his books and with pardon-
able pride record the fact that every lodge had made report and remitted
its M. W. Grand Lodge dues is unprecedented, and his vigorous and effect-
ive work in bringing the late, incompetent and careless secretaries of many
of the lodges to their present efficiency should not go unrewarded. But
as a M. W. Grand Lodge of A. F. and A. Masons has no degrees of sci-
ence and philosophy to confer by which a few more initials of honor might

102 Proceedings of the [Oct. 4,

be added to the few in his honored name your Committee recommend that
M. \Y. Brother Scott admit our R. W. Grand Secretary to his Association
of M. W. Graybeards.

All of which is fraternally submitted.

Wm. E. Ginther,
J. H. Mitchell,
C. H. Morrell.

Committee.

EEPOKT— Committee on Correspondence.

Bro. Joseph Robbins, P .G. M., Committee on Correspond-
ence, presented his report and asked that it be printed in the
Proceedings. It was so ordered. ( See Appendix, Part i . )

KEPOET— Special Committee on Grand Lodge By-Laws.

Bro. Edward Cook, P. G. M., from the Special Commit-
tee appointed to Revise Grand Lodge By-Laws, presented the
following report, and it being seconded by the representatives
of more than twenty lodges, lies over until next year :

To the M. W. Grand Lodge of Illinois, A. F. and A. Masons:

Brethren : — The Special Committee to revise the Grand Lodge By-
Laws would respectfully report that in order to embrace in the body of
the text the numerous approved decisions, to supply the new matter made
necessary by the recent establishment of Masonic Homes and to better
unify the whole, we were obliged to re-number many sections of the law,
to re-cast others and to formulate some new ones. This made it expedient
to present our report in the form of a complete revision, though it contains
comparatively little new matter, proposes only a few actual changes and
in the main conforms to the substance and order of the law as already
established. By the direction of the Most Worshipful Grand Master the
proposed new code has been put into print and will be distributed to the
representatives. We offer this revision as an amendment to or substitute
for our present code. Fraternally submitted,

Edward Cook,
Geo. M. Moulton,
Owen Scott,

Committee.
See Appendix, Part III.

1904] Grand Lodge of Illinois. 103

SPECIAL ORDER.
Bro. C. M. Forman moved that the special order of busi-
ness for Wednesday morning at 9 130 o'clock be the election of
officers. Carried.

ORATION.

Bro. Wm. A. Northcott, R .W. Grand Orator, delivered
the annual oration :

Most Worshipful Grand Master and Brethren :

I feel deeply the honor conferred on me by the M. W. Grand Master
and I thank him for this opportunity to meet the splendid representatives
from more than eight hundred constituent lodges throughout this grand
jurisdiction, comprising a membership of over seventy thousand of the
strong and brainy men of the great commonwealth of Illinois.

Down in "Egypt" where I live and where our most Worshipful Grand
Master lives, we know him well and have learned to love and honor him:

"He is a man whom the spoils of office cannot buy,
A man of honor, a man who will not lie."

The obedience rendered to the laws and mandates of our great Fra-
ternity and to its officers is of the strictest kind, but it is voluntary and
not compulsory; it comes from love and not from fear; it is not the
obedience of a slave to his master ; it is not the servile homage of a sub-
ject to a tyrant; but it is like the cheerful loyalty to the free republic
which we love.

Away off in the kingdom of Denmark is the beautiful city of Copenha-
gen, and there is a winding carriage way to a tower more than one hundred
and fifty feet high. Once the Czar of all the Russias visited the good old
King of Denmark and was driven to the top of this tower and shown the
beautiful country around and about the city of Copenhagen. While standing
there, the Czar drew himself up proudly and said : "I can do something
you can't do. I can command the haughtiest noble in all the Russias to
throw himself from this tower, and he would obey me instantly and dash
out his brains on the rocks beneath, and you can't do this."

"No," said the good old king, "I can't do that, but I will tell you what
I can do; I- can lay my head down in the lap of my humblest subject and
sleep in peace and security, and you can't do that."

I approach the task before me with some feeling of timidity when I
recall the long roll of illustrious statesmen and eloquent orators who have

104 Proceedings of the [Oct 4,

preceded me as R. W. Grand Orator of the state of Illinois. The first in
line was that great Commoner, Stephen A. Douglas, of whom it has been
said that his utterance of that one word "liberty" was more effective than
an hour's speech delivered by an ordinary man. Then there was Gen.
James Shields, the splendid soldier and statesman, who represented three
states of the republic in the United States Senate. Gen. John M. Palmer,
"The Old Man Eloquent," whose record helped to make Illinois great, a
successful lawyer, a brave soldier, the governor of his state and at one
time its representative in the United States Senate. Hon. Adlai E. Stev-
enson, at one time vice-president of the United States, and one of the
favorite sons of Illinois and of the republic. Upon this list are great
names like those of Gen. John C. Black, Congressman Walter Reeves,
Governor Richard Yates, Jr., and Hon. W. J. Calhoun. Contemporaneous
with us and upon this platform are Past Grand Orators Gen. John C.
Smith, Dr. Joseph Robbins and the Hon. Owen Scott. The oration last
year of Dr. James B. McFatrich was one of the brightest gems of elo-
quence it has ever been my pleasure to read.

Freemasonry has no boundary lines. It is as universal as humanity.
Its brotherhood reaches the most remote corners of the earth. Off in the
mountains of West Virginia rises the Monongahela river and it flows by
the grave of my mother, but as its waters wash its banks by the side of
that grave it sings me no requiem of West Virginia ; and as it flows on
into the Ohio past Illinois, my home and the home of my wife and chil-
dren, it sings me no song of Illinois ; and as it goes on to the Mississippi
toward the gulf, and from the gulf to the sea, it tells me no story of Ten-
nessee, the state of my nativity; but in that ceaseless murmur between the
two great oceans I hear a splendid anthem to that great spirit of brotherly
love which is so beautifully exemplified by our beloved Fraternity. The
ties of Masonry reach across boundaries of states, across oceans to the far-
off islands of the sea.

In many respects, it seems to me, we have the greatest civilization
here in the Mississippi valley in all the world's history. Other civiliza-
tions have had kings, palaces, armies, navies, institutions of learning and
great wealth. The few were rich and powerful, but the many were slaves.
The Mississippi river is greater than the Tigris, the Ganges or the Eu-
phrates. It is greater than the Nile that flows by the home of the ancient
Pharoahs, and upon whose banks sit grand, gloomy and peculiar the ever-
lasting pyramids. It is greater than the Tiber of imperial Rome from
whose banks the Cassers ruled the world. Greater than the beautiful
Rhine, in whose valleys contended the Gaul and the Teuton for the su-
premacy of Europe and the world. Greater than all these because it flows
by the homes of free men and free women. Greater than all these because
in its valleys are the churches and school houses and the lodges where all
the people gather in the spirit of universal equality under the law.

1904] Grand Lodge of Illinois. 105

God never made anything greater than the people. How wonderful
has been the evolution of the rights of men !

In liberty-loving Switzerland, where the snow-capped Alps echo to
the huntsman's horn, is found the great glacier. Long years in forming it
moves so slowly that only the nice ear of the man of snow and ice can
catch the music of its motion ; but in the fullness of time it becomes the
swiftly moving avalanche which, with terrible force, sweeps all before it.

For ages, the many suffered under the tyranny of the few. For ages
the rights of men were forgotten. Then nearly two thousand years ago a
Flower Divine closed its petals upon the cross of Calvary and today it bears
its ripened fruit in that great spirit of brotherly love which is so highly
exemplified by the Masonic Fraternity. And today we can look beyond
the avalanche of charity that has come to bless our time over the centuries
to the cross that was borne by the lowly Nazarene on the far-off shores
of Gallilee.

There is an inspiration in the Masonic lodge; the inspiration of hu-
man love, almost akin to the Divine ; there is the sanctity of all the ages,
going back in the musty centuries beyond the days of Solomon. Its ritual
and ceremonies outliving the ravages of the years. In the Masonic lodge
I feel that I am upon holy ground and that I must bare my feet. I hear
the beautiful strains of the "Holy City."

"The light of God was on the streets and the gates were opened wide,
And all who would might enter there, and no one was denied."

The Masonic Fraternity brings into action two of the greatest of the
world's forces : Organization and Human Love. How wonderful is the
strength of human love ! It is stronger than the steam that bears the
' mighty engine on its tracks of steel ; it is stronger than the cannon of
Napoleon Bonaparte upon the victorious field of Austerlitz ; it is stronger
than the Niagara that throws its floods upon the depths below ; it is
stronger than the lighting that executes the will of God.

Bro. LeRoy A. Goddard, P. G. M., moved that a vote of
thanks be tendered the R. W. Grand Orator and that his re-
marks be printed in the proceedings. Carried .

EES0LUTI0N.

Bro. Geo. M. Moulton, P. G. M., offered the following
resolution, and asked that it be referred to the Committee on
Jurisprudence. It was so ordered : •

106 Proceedings of the [Oct 4,

Resolved, It is the sense of this M .W. Grand Lodge that amendments
to the revised code of by-laws as presented by the committee may be re-
ceived, considered, and acted upon at the next annual communication of
the M. W. Grand Lodge, or simultaneously with action taken upon the said
revised code.

KEPORT— Board of Trustees Illinois Masonic Home.
Bro. Owen Scott, P. G. M., of the Board of Trustees of
the Illinois Masonic Home, at Sullivan, made the following re-
port. On motion the report of the committee was referred to
the Finance Committee :

To the M. W. Grand Lodge of Illinois, A. F. and A. Masons:

The Board of Trustees of the Illinois Masonic Home, located at Sulli-
van, makes the following report :

Meetings of the Board have been held during the year as follows : At
Chicago, October 5, 1903. Present, Brethren George M. Moulton, Owen
Scott, L. L. Munn, W. G. Cochran, A. H. Bell, C. E. Allen, C. F. Hitch-
cock, R. H. Wheeler, J. A. Steele, Win. B. Wright, L. A. Goddard, P. W.

Barclay. ,

At this meeting the Board organized by the election of the following
officers : President, Owen Scott ; Vice-President, Wm. B. Wright ; Treas-
urer, L. A. Goddard; Secretary, James A. Steele.

The second meeting was held at Chicago, May 24, and all the mem-
bers were present, except Brother Cochran, whose health did not permit his
attendance.

The third meeting was held at Sullivan, September 8, all members be-
ing present except Brother Moulton, who was absent attending the meeting
of the Knights Templar at San Francisco.

The fourth meeting was held in Chicago October 3. 1904, and all were
present except Judge Cochran, who, on account of poor health, was unable
to attend.

The building which has been under construction during the past year is
just about completed and ready for the furnishings. There have been many
and frequent delays in the work of the building from a variety of causes
more or less unavoidable. It was believed one year ago that the building
would be ready for occupancy as early as May or June of this year. This
proved to be based upon a false foundation. Every effort made by your
Board to expedite the work proved futile. On September 8, the structure
was in such condition that it yas deemed wise to dedicate it to the uses of

1904] Grand Lodge of Illinois. 107

the fraternity. Full report of the dedication is made by the Grand Master.
Since then the finishing has been going on until this time it is practically
ready for occupancy. As soon as the furniture and fixtures can be installed,
the doors will be opened to receive those dependent Masons, their wives,
widows and orphans who come with proper credentials from the lodges of
Illinois.

There are many waiting who have been properly endorsed, and who
will, within a brief time be notified of their admission. From present indi-
cations there will be no lack of members. Already twenty-one have been
accepted by the Board, and will be given accommodations as members of
the home. They are as follows :

Elisha L. Cunnigham, 88 years Louisville 196, Louisville, 111.

Milo B. Reed, 75 years Mystic Star 758, Chicago

Elias Lyon, 78 years Toulon 93, Toulon, 111.

Alexander Masters, 71 years Central 71, Springfield, 111.

Mrs. Mary J. Masters, 67 years Central 71, Springfield, 111.

Henry A. Fuller, 85 years Kishwaukee 402, Kingston, 111.

George Welsh, 86 years Winchester 105, Winchester, 111.

John W. Apperson, 82 years Bloomfield 148, Chrisman, 111.

Jacob Young, 76 years Home 508, Chicago

Geo. N. Van Houlton, 75 years Landmark 422, Chicago

Stephen L. Crapp, 10 years Mystic Star 758, Chicago

Robert Crapp, 5 years Mystic Star 758, Chicago

Lily C. Crapp, 14 years Mystic Star 758, Chicago

Laura M. Crapp, 9 years Mystic Star 758, Chicago

Phoebe Rose Crapp, 12 years Mystic Star 758, Chicago

Hiram H. Carpenter, 82 years Oriental 33, Chicago

Albertina J. Schmidt, 72 years Kilwinning 311, Chicago

A. W. Philhouer, 67 years Mattoon 260, Mattoon, 111.

Mrs. A. W. Philouer, 67 years Mattoon 260, Mattoon, 111.

John A. Wait, 74 years Kilwinning 311, Chicago

Lucinda H. Niccolls, 67 years Bloomington 43, Bloomington, 111.

L. N. Rowland, 79 years Virden 161, Virden, 111.

Of thse, sixteen are adults, five children, two husbands and wives,
twelve men and two widows.

The danger is that the building will soon prove inadequate to the de-
mands.

NON-AFFILIATES INELIGIBLE.

it is deemed wise to call attention at this time to certain restrictions
made absolutely necessary.

First. — Persons not affiliated with lodges in Illinois cannot be received.
Applications have come from a considerable number for admission who

108 I'roceedinr/fi of the [Oct 4,

are either not affiliated at all, or who belong to lodges in other states. The
following rule of admission has been adopted : "All applicants must be
Master Masons in good standing in a lodge in the State of Illinois for a
period of at least one year last ensuing; or the wife, widow or child of
such. A Master Mason who has been voluntarily unaffiliated one year or
more shall not be deemed eligible for admission until two years after his
restoration except by action of the entire Board of Trustees. The same
rule will apply to the wives, widows and children."

Lodges should bear this rule in mind and not embarrass the Board by
asking to have persons admitted who affiliate only for that purpose, or who
in other ways are ineligible. Unless this rule is strictly enforced, the home
established for the care and comfort of Illinois craftsmen and their de-
pendents will be crowded with those who are a proper charge on other
grand jurisdictions.

NOT A HOTEL.

One other question has arisen which has required a decision. Persons
who have partial or full means of support have asked to come to the home
to reside. Your Board has held that the intention is to care for those
wholly dependent. Persons who have some means will expect greater
privileges than those who have none, hence discord and dissatisfaction
would result. It has, therefore, been thought wise to restrict the admission
of members to those who are wholly dependent.

NOT A HOSPITAL.

One other class of applicants has also been deemed ineligible. These
are persons utterly helpless and who require the constant attention of a
nurse. They are subj ects for a hospital and should be cared for there. This
is a Masonic home and not a hotel or hospital. Necessarily for a time the
accommodations will be limited, and it is imperative to accept those only
who come within the scope of such an institution.

Bro. Charles L. Hovey, a Past Master of Macon Lodge No. 8, Decatur,
Illinois, has been employed as superintendent, and his wife as Matron, at
a rate of $75 per month for both. Brother Hovey entered upon his duties
September 19 and has been thoroughly occupied in bringing order out of
chaos.

Your Board has been of the opinion that its number is larger than is
necessary when the Home is completed and in running order. The many
important questions arising during the period of construction has made
more frequent meetings necessary than would be required hereafter. It
will be possible the coming year to dispense with all meetings, except pos-
sibly one. The work can be done by committees. This will be a consid-
erable saving in expense. We should have recommended the reduction in

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the number this year except for the fact that the Committee on Revision
of the Laws has considered and reported a plan which fixes a smaller
number.

After careful consideration of the various requirements we think the
maintenance and support of the home, together with the necessary work in
completing the building and its surroundings will require about $12,000 and
recommend that this sum be appropriated from the charity fund of the
M.W. Grand Lodge for the ensuing year.

REPORT OF THE CLERK OF THE BOARD.

The following are the receipts and expenditures for the year ending
September 30, 1904:

RECEIPTS.

M.W. Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. M., for Acct. Gen-
eral Fund $ 1,000 00 "•

M.W. Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. M., for Acct. Bldg.

Fund 15,000 00

M.W. Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. M., for Acct. fur-
nishings 5,000 00

Receipts $21,000 00

Balance October 1, 1903 18,524 50

Total receipts of the year $39,524 50

DISBURSEMENTS.

General Fund : —

Mileage and per diem $ 700 15

Fence 60 00

Treasurer's bond 62 50

Printing 54 00

Well 75 75

Typewriter 100 00

Salaries, clerk and watchman 136 50

Stationery 6 34

Superintendent's sundries 200 00

1.395 24

Construction account 26,863 J8

Furnishings 18 00

Total expenditures of the year $28,276 42

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[Oct. 4,

RECAPITULATION.

Total receipts $39,524 50

Total expenditures 28,276 42

Treasurer's balance, September 30, 1904 $11,248 08

Respectfully submitted,

C. S. GURNEY,

Approved : Clerk.

Jas. A. Steele,
Wm. B. Wright,
A. H. Bell,

Finance Committee.

SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF TREASURER, ILLINOIS,
MASONIC HOME.

Brethren : — Your Treasurer herewith submits his second annual re-
port as follows :

RECEIVED.

Oct. 5, 1903. Balance on hand $18,524 50

Oct. 31, 1903. From M. W. Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. M., of

Illinois 1,00000

Nov. 6, 1903. From M. W. Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. M., of

Illinois 15,000 00

Sept. 24, 1904. From M. W. Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. M., of

Illinois 5.000 00

$39,524 50

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PAID OUT.

Order No. 9 $ 1220

Order No. 10 60 00

Order No. 11 2,650 00

Order No. 12 1,875 00

Order No. 13 3,624 00

Order No. 14 62 50

Order No. 15 3 50

Order No. 16 75 75

Order No. 17 2,005 00

Order No. 18 17 08

Order No. 19 119 50

Order No. 20 1,068 00

Order No. 21 292 36

1904]

Grand Lodge of Illinois.

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10, 1904.

Order No. 22 $ 2,44400

Order No. 23 935 00

Order No. 24 24 90

Order No. 25 21 30

Order No. 26 27 40

Order No. 27 6 50

Order No. 28 22 00

Order No. 29 5 20

Order No. 30 41 50

Order No. 31 ' 20 00

Order No. 32 16 40

Order No. 33 22 60

Order No. 34 5 20

Order No. 35 5 20

Order No. 36 105 00

Order No. 37 4^50 00

Order No. 38 33 50

Order No. 39 17 00

Order No. 40 26 97

Order No. 41 2,040 00

Order No. 42 42 59

Order No. 43 33 85

Order No. 44 26 40

Order No. 45 1 50

Order No. 46 9 36

Order No. 47 1,615 00

Order No. 48 1,870 00

Order No. 49 100 00

Order No. 50 18 00

Order No. 51 73 54

Order No. 52 16 38

Order No. 53 913 00

Order No. 54 742 40

Order No. 55 126 34

Order No. 56 325 00

Order No. 57 12 47

Order No. 58 20 80

Order No. 59 14 50

Order No. 61 17 90

Order No. 62 24 60

Order No. 63 25 80

Order No. 64 25 50

Order No. 65 26 00

Order No. 66 5 00

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Order No. 67 $

Order No.
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Order No. 74.

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Total orders paid.

$28,233 92

5,233 92

Balance on hand $11,290 58

The canceled vouchers are herewith attached.
Fraternally submitted,

L.EROY A. GODDARD,

Approved : Treasurer.

Jas. A. Steele,
Wm. B. Wright,
A. H. Bell,

Finance Committee.

All of which is fraternally submitted.

Board of Trustees,
By Owen Scott, President.

RESOLUTION— By Brother Bobbins.
The following resolution was offered by Bro. Joseph Rob-
bins, P. G. M., and was referred to the Committee on Finance :

Whereas, M. W. Bro. John C. Smith has at his own expense, as a
labor of love, unearthed and published the history of the first M. W. Grand
Lodge of Illinois, which became defunct some thirteen years before the
organization of this M. W. Grand Lodge, and has achieved success in a
direction where others have made costly failures, therefore

Resolved, That the Committee on Finance be directed to consider the
expediency of appropriating a sum sufficient to purchase 500 copies of the
work for the use of the M. W. Grand Lodge.

REPORT— Lodges Under Dispensation.
Bro. Daniel J. Avery, from the Committee on Lodges Un-
der Dispensation, made the following report. On motion it
was adopted :

1904] Grand Lodge of Illinois. 113

To the M. W . Grand Lodge of Illinois, A. F. and A. M.:

Your Committee on Lodges Under Dispensation would respectfully
report that there have been presented to it, the dispensations and returns
of seven lodges, including Argenta Lodge which was before your com-
mittee last year, and which have been working under dispensation since
the last Annual Communication of the M. W. Grand Lodge.

Argenta Lodge, U. D., located at Argenta, Macon County, Illinois.

A dispensation was granted by the M. W. Grand Master, George M.
Moulton, on August 21, 1902, to the brethren of Argenta to form a new
lodge. The lodge was instituted on August 28, 1902, by the R. W. Bro.
Charles F. Tenney, D. D. G. M. of the Eighteenth District, but not having
been organized in time to secure a Charter at the session of the M. W.
Grand Lodge held at Chicago in October, 1902, the dispensation was con-
tinued in force by the M. W. Grand Master, by his endorsement thereon,
until the session of 1903. The records of the proceedings of the lodge were
presented to your committee at that session, but not being satisfactory, the
committee recommended that a charter be not granted, and that the lodge
be continued under dispensation until the next session of the M. W. Grand
Lodge. The report of the committee being adopted by the M. W. Grand
Lodge, the M. W. Grand Master, Wm. B. Wright, continued the dispen-
sation by his endorsement, dated November 27, 1903, at the same time
making changes in the corps of officers. The lodge held communications
regularly during the past year, and its transactions are now presented for
consideration. The code of by-laws adopted meets with the approbation of
your committee. Considerable care was evidently taken to keep a correct
account of their proceedings, but your committee regrets to notice that
although fifteen petitions for the degrees were received by the lodge, since
last November, there is no record in the minutes, of the lodge having bal-
loted on those petitions, nor is there any mention of the fact that the candi-
dates were either elected or rejected. In the returns, however, made by
the Worshipful Master, and attested by the Secretary, it is certified that on
certain dates all the candidates were either elected or rejected, and your
committee believes that this report required by the by-laws to be made to
the M. W. Grand Lodge, is correct and true, and that the Secretary merely
omitted making the proper entry in the records of balloting on petitions.

The record of work for the entire time since the lodge was instituted is
as follows :

Petitions received 47

Elected 39

Initiated 39

Passed 36

Raised 35

Rej ected 8

Number named in dispensation 10

114 Proceedings of the [Oct. 4,

Number named in dispensation not signing petition 4

Number petitioning for charter 41

Those applying for a charter are as follows :

Edward Harry Thomas, Joseph Wenzel Ripple, Chas. N. Denison,
Samuel Smetters, John Grass, William Marsh, Frank Rutherford Querrey,
Edward Reeser, James Edgar Bowman, William Martin Bowman, Wil-
liam Leon Beadleston, Mack Ashton, Bolser Nein, Horatio Miller Strever,
William Edwin Wallace, John Alonzo Eyman, John Henry Armstrong,
William Evey, Arthur Henry Costley, Arthur Wellington Wyckoff, George
W. Reynolds, Elmer Ellsworth Dallas, Walter S. Parish, William Warren
Parish, Samuel H. Dugan, Frederick E. Shaff, Carl P. Pierson, Cecil Rey-
nolds, Robert Francis Huston, Harry Casner Luckenbill, George Edgar
Harlan, Lewis Lawrence Kreker, Edward Ater, James Buchanan Green-
field, William Henry Kile, Frederick Heinle, Samuel Heinle, George Louis
Heinle, Peter Edward Gerber, Reverdy Joseph Miller, Edwin Franklin
Dunbar.

Your committee recommends that a charter be granted to this lodge
as ''Argenta Lodge No. 871," and be placed in the hands of the M. W.
Grand Master to be by him delivered, when he is satisfied that the errors
noted above, were the fault of the Secretary in not properly recording
the proceedings, and not a violation of law by the lodge, as the records
state.

We also recommend that the M. W. Grand Master issue his dispensa-
tion for having the records corrected to correspond with the facts.

Free Will Lodge, U. D., located at Oakwoods, in the county of Ver-
milion.

A dispensation for this lodge was granted on October 21, 1903. The
lodge was instituted November 7, 1903, by R. W. Bro. D. E. Bruffett,
D. D. G. M. of the Seventeenth District. The records of this lodge show
that immediately after the institution, a satisfactory code of by-laws was
adopted by the lodge, and a careful examination of the minutes show the
proceedings of the lodge to have been properly recorded in every particular,
and the work is regular, and is as follows :

Petitions received 6

Elected 4

Rejected 2

Initiated 3

Passed 3

Raised 4

Tlie minutes show that a brother F. C. of Newtown Lodge No. 714
desired to become a member of this lodge : that Newtown Lodge waived
jurisdiction over the brother, whereupon his petition was received, referred
to a committee, and pursued the usual course. After his election he was
admitted into a F. C. lodge, passed a satisfactory examination and was
subsequently raised to the sublime degree of M. M.

1904] Grand Lodge of Illinois. 115

Number named in dispensation 15

Number named in dispensation not signing charter 1

Number petitioning for charter 18

whose names are as follows :

G. C. Howard, J. W. Johnston, S. C. Sailor, Jesse Leeka, Oliver S.
Bell, J. W. Trimble, K. C. Trimmell, John Davidson, J. Smith Mason,
Chas. Hewitt, Z. S. Savior, Magnus Martinson, Henry Wright, Stephen
Moran, Charles Knox, C. A. Mayhew, Albert E. Doney, J. A. Saylor.

Your committee recommends that a charter be granted to this lodge
as "Free Will Lodge No. 872."

Standard Lodge, U. D., located at Chicago, Cook county.

A dispensation for this lodge was dated December II, 1903, and the
lodge was instituted December 19, 1903, by R. W. Bro. Henry McCall,
D. D. G. M. of the First District. Immediately after institution the lodge
adopted a code of by-laws which in all respects complies with the require-
ments of the by-laws of M. W. Grand Lodge. The records of this lodge
are kept in a most perfect and complete manner, and show great care and
thorough competency of the Secretary of the lodge. We find everything
regular and satisfactory. The work of said lodge is as follows :

The number of petitions received 40

Elected 38

Rej ected None

Initiated 33

Passed ,. 33

Raised 33

Number named in dispensation 44

Named in dispensation, but not signing petition for charter. ... 13
Number signing petition for charter 64

whose named are as follows :

Geo. M. Harmison, J. Lloyd Hammond, John Weatherson, Fidelio F.
Brown, Ezekiel Williams Clowes, C. S. Cornelius, John Wesley Johnson,
Charles R. Erwin, Ebenezer Charles Tillotson, Willis Rogers Adsit, Henry
A. Davidson, Harry Preston Bennett, Charles Olaf Hanson, Albert Orleans
Howe, F. B. Harmison, Alfred P. Knight, Arthur T. Fenton, Harry Wells
Modlin, Oliver Stangland, Robt. M. Hiner, F. C. Lockwood, C. A. Luse,
D. A. Smalley, H. T. Bond, F. B. Hormel, Benj. F. Tubergen, Reginald
Rosevear, Herman Henry Rohwedder, Robert Graves, George Frank-
lin Adams, Albert George Stoetzel, Charles Eldredge Buss, Charles
Newton Reese, George Whittington Wiedhofft, Thomas Francis Howe,
Frederick Charles Rosevear, James Stolp Hopkins, Clarence E. Shepard,
Edgar Harter Walker, Thomas Isaac Moffett, Charles Fredrick Grassle,
Arthur Burdette Morrill, William David Richards, Albert Fred Heorodt,
Walter Ellis Oliver, J. J. Daly, William Slack, Geo. Vincent Kenworthy,
George Henry Hanson, Edward Davieson, Jesse D. Stoddard, Anthony

116 Proceedings of the [Oct. 4.

Augustus O'Neill, Paul Charles Rohloff. Frank Alfred Silky, Burrell D.
Jones, John Thomas Evans, Eyan Albert Evans, Ernest Edgar De Vol,
Samuel E. Wheeler, Wm. Scott Robinson, Clarence Webb Smith, Frank P.
Keeny, Robert Ernest Kurth, John William Thorson.

Your committee recommends that a charter be granted to this lodge
as "Standard Lodge No. 873."

Modesto Lodge, U. D., located at Modesto, Macoupin county.

A dispensation was dated December 17, 1903. and the lodge was
instituted December 30, 1903, by R. W. Bro. Peter F. Clark, D. D. G. M.,
of the Twenty-second District. Immediately after the institution of the
lodge a code of by-laws that is entirely satisfactory to your committee
was adopted. The minutes show some slight discrepancies and errors, viz. :

Two brethren of the lodge were raised on March 5, 1903, and there is
no record that the brethren were examined as to proficiency in the F. C.
degree.

At the meeting of the lodge held March 9, one of the F. C. of the
lodge is recorded as acting as tyler. It is true the lodge opened only on
the first and second degrees at that meeting, but your committee is of the
opinion that no person should serve as an officer of a lodge on any degree
unless he be a M. M.

We also note that there is no record that a candidate, after being
examined for advancement, retired from the lodge before the lodge was
opened on a higher degree.

It appears by the records that action was taken on one petition where
the record does not state that the committee reported, or that the report
was announced by the W. M.

And that at the meeting held on August 24, the fact is recorded that
the committee reported favorably.

These several errors your committee attributes to the carelessness or
negligence of the Secretary in keeping and recording the minutes of the
lodge. The other work having been so reasonably satisfactory, your com-
mittee is inclined to look upon these as errors of omission and commission
which should be avoided in the future. The record also fails to show the
substance of the several petitions presented to the lodge.

The lodge having met with a misfortune in the death of Bro. L. M.
Nifong, who was named in the dispensation a? W. M., the surviving
members of the lodge have unanimously requested that the name of the
lodge be changed from Modesto to that of Nifong — which request your
committee recommends be complied with.

The work of the lodge is as follows :

1904] Grand Lodge of Illinois. 117

Petitions received 21

Elected 18

Rej ected 3

Initiated 18

Passed 18

Raised 18

Number named in dispensation 9

Number named in dispensation, not petitioning for charter 2

Number petitioning for charter 25

whose names are as follows :

J. H. Devine, Samuel A. Simmons, Harry R. Crane, David A. Sparks,
Phillip W. Sarius, Imri B. Vancil, James A. Fletcher, Hugh H. Drum,
Charles R. VanWinkle, Leonard G. Brown, James P. McCurley, Frank C.
Sarius, Isaah Riggins, Arthur Lobb, Chapman S. Lobb, Barton W. Turner,
George R. Bradley, Porter I. Turner, James T. Chowning, George H.
Nevius, Irwin M. Baptist, Charles Gordon, Samuel E. Jones, Ellsworth
Walkington, John W. Larimore.

Your committee recommends that a charter be granted to this lodge
as "Nifong Lodge No. 874."

Cornerstone Lodge, U. D., located at Chicago, Cook county.

A dispensation was issued for this lodge on the 29th day of February,
1904. The lodge was instituted March 10, 1904, by R. W. Bro. Robert R.
Jampolis, D. D. G. M., of the Second District, assisted by R. W. Bro. Elmer
E. Beach, D. D. G. M. of the Third District, and R. W. Bro. M. Bates Iott.
Immediately after the institution of the lodge, a code of by-laws, which
complies in all respects with the law of this M. W. Grand Lodge, was
adopted. The records of this lodge are complete, and in every respect
regular and satisfactory, and your committee commends the care and ac-
curacy of the Secretary in keeping the same.

The following is the returns of work :

Petitions received 49

Elected 36

Rej ected 10

Not acted on 3

Initiated 31

Passed 30

Raised 29

Number named in dispensation 84

Named in dispensation, not signing for charter 1

Number petitioning for charter 112

whose names are as follows :

Edgar Clinton Jackson, Clyde William Blakeslee, John William Low,
Maurice Adam Shenick, Frank Rayner, William John McKeen, William
Gibson, Theodore Hess, Albert Sloan, Adolph William Johnson, Anton
John Wallenta, Nelson Beecher Place, Ernst Johan Waldemar Larson,

118 Proceedings of the [Oct. 4,

Charles De Lee, Frank Wilson Cunningham, Mark Neuman, Henry Hogen-
sen, John McLary, Kmil Oscar Martin Lindow, Lucian Leeds Spellman,
Charles Emil Erickson, Ward Russell Scudder, John Jay Jones, Hamilton
Baile Snader, Charles Cunnard, Harry Blount, Edward Beecroft, Nils
Edward Gunderson, Augustus Christian Ilottmann, Lewis Scott Sitts,
George Williams, John McGowan, Charles Martin Stenerson. Albert St.
Clair Rennie, Arthur Malcom Cox, Joseph Miller Laughlin. Edwin Sey-
mour Lansing, Lewis Nelson Place, Harry Daniel Bermond, Marcus Adler,
Duroc Blevens, Edward Ralph Burton, William Charles Weinert, Abe
Jonas Korsoski, Reynold LaFayette Harrison Brown. Joseph Leonard
Undem. Willis C. Howell, Theodore Joseph Uselding, Frederick Christo-
pher Mayer, Alvin Urban Schneider, Harold Askew Tompkins, Frank
Erastus Sholes, Harry Edwin Kiley, George Harvey Farmer, Geo. Henry
Racine, Edward L. Fransted, David Kennedy, Charles Craft, John George
Harris. Leon Romanowski, Jr., Sam'l A. Swiggett, Peter Blakeslee, Henry
G. Lindow, August M. Strohm, Alfred John Foster, Louis Kogel, Anton
Matthew Wecket, Geo. Manning Embury, John Christian Sundeen, Frank
Anderson Mofhtt, Nathaniel Cliffton Pearce, Fred. Arthur VanArsdale,
George Ringler, Werner John Schaefer, William MacGoweu. William
Washington Sheppard, Louis Deloss Sheppard, M. D.. Adolph Richard
Kessler, Carl Wilhelm Albert Beckman, John Stewart Benedict, Nathan
Shure, George Edward Eaton, Frank Abbott Dwight, M. D., Herbert
Henry Low, Lawrence Raymond Jordan, William John Ferguson, Claude
Burns Roe, Anthony Johanson Wiborg, Arthur Henry Kott, Arthur
Edward Gorvett, Guy Bird Dickson, Herbert Earl Greer, Aaron Maurice
Bermond, Albert Erickson, Orlando A. Donnelly, Wilhelm Carolins Olson,
Charles C. Carnahan, Peter Johnson, Jr., Oscar A. Bentler, Edgar F. Kuhl-
mey, David W. Michael, Leslie E. Harris, Albert Christopher Glantz,
Henry Richard Conklin, Robert Tarrant, Jr., William Patterson, Robert
Hughes, Frank Hugo Perth Morris Rochells, William Henry Gross, George
Edward Hansen, Robert Allan Oakes.

Your committee recommends that a charter be granted to this lodge
as "Cornerstone Lodge No. 875."

William McKinley Lodge, U. D., located at Chicago, Cook county.

A dispensation for this lodge was granted April 12, 1904. The lodge
was instituted April 22, 1904, by R. W. Bro. Elmer E. Beach, D. D. G. M.,
of the Third District, and the lodge adopted a code of by-laws the same
evening and before proceedings to any other business. We have examined
the by-laws and find them to be in compliance with the laws of M. W.
Grand Lodge. The records and papers submitted to us are in every respect
regular and the committee commends the care and accuracy of the secre-
tary in discharging his duty in that behalf.

The work of this lodge is as follows :

1904 J Grand Lodge of Illinois. 119

Petitions received 23

Elected 16

Re j ected 1

Not acted on 6

Initiated 15

Passed 15

Raised 15

Number named in dispensation 42

Number petitioning for charter 57

whose names are as follows :

William Henry Constantine, William Roger Sprague, Thomas Alfred
Anderson, Clarence Delwyn Worthington, Edward Collins Robson, Henry
Heibel, Frederick Kiel, Frank Coffinberry, Harry Andrew Bowman, Adel-
bert Joseph Warner, Richard Edwin Kimball, Fred Dexter Fox, Ernst
Frederick Johanner Steinhoff, Latham Carr, Adolph J. Ohlson, Leopold
Swartz, Samuel Albert Swartz, Harry Allerton Gingery, William Francis
Armstrong, Peter Milton Gates, Arthur Gail Hollingshead, Edmund Ar-
thur Steinman, William Henry Wilson, Alfred Frederic Austrian, Henry
Spencer Smith, Henry Adam Allman, Joseph William Thayer, Louis Cohen,
Robert Earl Donaldson, Albert Wilber Constantine, Edward Ulysses
Constantine, Robert Francis Birkett, Joseph Smith Duncan, Frederick E.
Wadhams, Ignatius Bond, Herman Daniel Spielberger, James Grunfeld,
Robert John Nelson, Albert Edward Bruggemeyer, Robert Friedlander,
Howard E. Warner, George Washington Constantine, William John Peters,
Rezin Pritchard Johnson, Harold William Meinz, Harry Hurry, William
Bennett Moore, Leonard Blom, William Baldwin Huey, Alfred Gill Dupuis,
Charles Graham White, Alfred Jerome Dawson, Harry Vissering, Chaun-
cey Rutledge Hardy, Harry Joh*n Wolf, Robert Franklin Dalbey, Bernard
L. Shapiro.

Your committee recommends that a charter be granted to this lodge
as "William McKinley Lodge No. 876."

Granite City Lodge, U. D., located at Granite City, Madison county.

A dispensation for this lodge was granted May 5, 1904. The lodge
was instituted May 13, 1904, by R. W. Bro. William Montgomery, D. D.
G. M., of the Twenty-sixth District, and a code of by-laws which is in
entire compliance with the requirements of the by-laws of the M. W. Grand
Lodge, was adopted at that meeting. The records and returns of this lodge
are in every way complete and satisfactory, and show care and accuracy
upon the part of the Secretary in keeping the same.

The following is the work :

Petitions received 9

Elected 6

Rejected 2

Not acted on 1

Initiated 6

120 Proceedings of the [Oct. 4,

Passed 6

Raised 6

Number named in dispensation 42

Number in dispensation not applying for charter 1

Number signing petition for charter 47

■whose names are as follows :

James Whipple Mills, John W. Costley, Edward L. Fountain, George
E. Whitten, William Harris, W. W. Hanlon, W. J. Lynch, H. B. Schenck,
Wra. H. Auble, Jas. P. Ryan, Wm. M. Kendall, D. R. Thomas, Oscar Har-
rison, David James, Edwin Bynion, John Jenkins, Oliver H. Jones. Ben-
jamin Castle Lewis, Carl Kissell, Chas. Alexander Uzzell, P. H. Eisen-
mayer, J. E. Molthrop, Isaac Pick, A. W. Eisenmayer, Geo. F. Eisenmayer,
H. H. Miller, Geo. Champion, Wm. Champion, George W. Davis, Robt.
M. Kidd, C. F. Cobb, J. K. Marshall, Jas. W. Green, Dr. P. P. Howe, John
Eynon, Frank M. Cauger, W. P. Wilson, James T. McKelvey, Thos. Evans,
James E. West, Edwin Carter, Ed. Waldt, Geo. E. Williams, John Curtis,
J. M. Evans, J. D. Leonard, A. T. Cooley.

Your committee recommends that a charter be granted to this lodge as
"Granite City Lodge No. 877."

All of which is fraternally submitted,

Daniel J. Avery,
H. C. Mitchell,
Roswell T. Spencer,
John Johnston,
I. H. Todd,

Committee.

INVITATIONS.

Communications were received and read by the R. W.
Grand Secretary from the lodges mentioned below, inviting the
visiting brethren to attend the sessions of the different bodies :

Garfield Lodge No. 686.

St. Cecelia Lodge No. 865.

Garden City Lodge No. 141.

CALLED OPP.
At 1:15 p. m. the M. W. Grand Lodge was called from
labor to refreshment until 9 o'clock Wednesday morning.

1904] Grand Lodge of Illinois. 121

SECOND DAY.

Wednesday, Oct. 5, A. L. 5904. \
9:00 o'clock a. m. \

The M. W. Grand Lodge was called from refreshment to
labor by the M. W. Grand Master.

Grand Officers and Representatives were present same as
preceding day.

RULING— By the M. W. Grand Master.
Since referring the resolution offered yesterday by Bro.
Geo. M. Moulton, P. G. M., to the Committee on Jurispru-
dence, I have felt that the resolution, if adopted by this M. W.
Grand Lodge, as stated yesterday, could not control the action
of the M. W. Grand Lodge one year hence, and have instructed
the Committee on Jurisprudence that it would not be necessary
to report to the M. W. Grand Lodge upon that question.

REPORT— Committee on Petitions.
Bro. C. M. Forman presented the following report from
the Committee on Petitions. On motion it was adopted :

To the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. M.:

i. The petition of Wm. H. Gillette, who was indefinitely suspended
for non-payment of dues by Galesburg Lodge No. 372 (now defunct) about
July 17, 1879, now petitions the M. W. Grand Lodge for reinstatement;
he has paid into the hands of the R. W. Grand Secretary the amount of
dues for which he was suspended and is now clear on the books of said
defunct lodge as shown by the receipt of the R. W. Grand Secretary on
file with said petition. Your committee find that all requirements have
been complied with on the part of your petitioner and would respectfully
recommend that the prayer of said petition be granted.

2. The petition of Jacob J. White, who was indefinitely suspended
for non-payment of dues by Bigelow Lodge No. 438, (now defunct) about
August 6, 1873, now petitions the M. W. Grand Lodge for reinstatement ;
he has paid into the hands of the R. W. Grand Secretary the amount of

122 Proceedings of the [Oct. 5,

dues for which he was suspended and is now clear on the books of said
defunct lodge, as shown by the receipt of the R. W. Grand Secretary on
file with said petition. Your committee finds that all the M. W. Grand
Lodge By-Law requirements have been complied with by said petitioner,
and would respectfully recommend that said petitioner be reinstated to all
the rights and privileges of Masonry.

All of which is respectfully and fraternally submitted.

C. M. Forman,
Ben Hagle,
Charles G. Young,

Committee.

KEPOET- Committee on Appeals and Grievances.

Bro. Monroe C. Crawford, P. G. M., chairman of the
Committee on Appeals and Grievances, presented the following
report. On motion it was adopted :

To the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. M.:

Your Committee on Appeals and Grievances make the following re-
port :

No. i.
In the matter of the petition of —

}

We recommend that the petition be dismissed.

No. 2.
Golden Rule Lodge No. 726.

We recommend that the action of the lodge be sustained.

No. 3.

Cleveland Lodge No. 211

vs.

We recommend that the accused should be found guilty and expelled
from all the rights and privileges of Masonry.

190-iJ Grand Lodge of Illinois. 121

No. 4.

vs.
Cleveland Lodge No. 208 and

We recommend that' this question be remitted to Cleveland Lodge
No. 211 for such action as they see proper.

No. 5.
Wilmington Lodge No. 208 )

We recommend that the action of the lodge be set aside and that the
brother be restored to all the rights and privileges of Masonry.

No. 6.

St. Elmo Lodge No. 769
vs.

We recommend that the action of the lodge be sustained.

No. 7.

A. Lincoln Lodge No. 518
vs.

We recommend that the action of the lodge be sustained.

No. 8.

Bunker Hill Lodge No. 151
vs.

We recommend that the action of the lodge be sustained.

No. 9.

Normal Park Lodge No. 797
vs.

We recommend that the defendant be found guilty and that he be
indefinitely suspended.

124 Proceedings of the [Oct. 5,

No. 10.

Dills Lodge No. 295

vs.

We recommend that the defendant be found not guilty and be re-
stored to all the rights and benefits of Masonry.

All of which is fraternally submitted.

Monroe C. Crawford,
Joseph E. Dyas,
W. S. Cantrell,
Henry E. Hamilton,
Herbert Preston,

Committee.

KEPORT— Committee on Jurisprudence.

Bro. John M. Pearson presented the following report from
the Committee on Jurisprudence. On motion it was adopted :

To the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. M.:

Your Committee on Jurisprudence to whom was referred the follow-
ing decisions, to-wit :

"I have been asked if it were proper for Masons, individually or as a
lodge, to participate or aid in the conduct of a 'Fair' where books of
chance and drawings were features and I have decided that to do so was
a clear violation of Section 6, Article 32, Part 2, Grand Lodge By-Laws.

"While I do not think any argument necessary in support of the above
decision, I take this occasion to emphasize the position of this M. W. Grand
Lodge upon the subject of gambling in all its various forms.

"Lotteries and games of chance are prohibited by Acts of Congress and
by acts of the legislatures in nearly every state. The acts are held to be
constitutional and are enforced by the courts when they are invoked in
cases pending before them. And the Mason who aids or gives counte-
nance to lottery or gift enterprises in any form or under any pretext, not
only violates the plain provisions of the above section but transgresses the
law of the land which he is taught in his lodge to respect and obey."

Respectfully reports, that it gives them great pleasure to unanimously
recommend its approval by this M. W. Grand Lodge. Our law has pro-
hibited aid, in any form, to any "lottery, or gift enterprise" for more than
thirty years, and M. W. Grand Masters in former years have used their

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125

authority to prevent such unmasonic conduct. Your committee congratu-
lates this M. W. Grand Lodge in having an M. W. Grand Master to faith-
fully construe and execute our laws.

Jno. M. Pearson,
John C. Smith,
Owen Scott,
Edward Cook,
C. F. Hitchcock,

Committee.

KEPORT— Committee on Mileage and Per Diem,
Bro. John A. Ladd, from Committee on Mileage and Per
Diem, presented the following report, which was, on motion,
adopted :

GRAND OFFICERS.

William B. Wright

C. E. Allen

Alexander H. Bell .

A. B. Ashley

L. A. Goddard

J. H. C. Dill

Joseph Stolz

W. A. Northern ...
George A. Stadler.
Henry L. Whipple.

Louis Zineer

W. H. Peak

J. R. Ennis

Walter Watson

N. M. Mesnard

W. M. Burbank
Geo. W. Hamilton..

W. B. Grimes

C. Rohrbough

William L. Orr

Chas. Fisher

W. J. A. De ancev..

M. W. Grand Master. .
R.W. Dep. Gr. Master
R.W. Sr. Gr. Warden.
R.W. Jr. Gr. Warden.
R. W. Gr. Treasurer. .
R.W. Gr. Secretary..
R.W. Gr. Chaplain...
R.W. Grand Orator..
W. Dep. Gr. Sec'y....
W. Gr. Pursuivant...
W. Grand Marshal. . .
W. Gr. ^tand. Bearer
W. Gr. Sword Bearer
W. Sr. Gr. Deacon.
W. Jr. Gr. Deacon .
W. Grand Steward.
Vy. Grand Steward.
W. Grand Steward.
W. Grand Steward.
Bro. Grand Tyler..
P. R.W. 1). G. Master
P. R.W. D. G. Master

199

163

224

15

126

248
170
263
158
3*0
272
275
184

6
209
254
229

1
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22 40 6

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12 60

24 80

17 70

26 30
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33

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27 50

18 40
60

20 90

25 40
22 90

$19 90
22 30
28 40
7 50

12 60
4 00
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23 00
32 30
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39 00

33

20

33 50

24

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6

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26 90

31

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28

90

6

10

24

50

31

20

RESIDENCE.

Effingham.

Galesburg.

Carlinville.

LaGrange.

Chicago.

Bloomington

Chicago.

Greenvlle.

Decatur.

Quincy.

Pekin.

Jonesboro.

Burnt Priarie

Mt. Vernon.

Blue Mound.

Chicago.

Prairie City.

Pittstield.

Kinmundy.

Chicago.

Sprin £ field.

Centralia.

R. W. DISTRICT DEPUTY GRAND MASTERS.

Henry McCall...
R. R. Jampolis. .
Elmer E. Beach.
Jay L. Brewster.

DISTRICTS.

1st District.

2d

3d

4th

g

3

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$ 10

$ 6

$ 6 10

7

70

6

6 70

10

1 (0

6

7 00

35

3 50

6

9 50

RESIDENCE.

Chicago.
Chicago.
Chicago.
Waukegan.

126

Proceedings of the

[Oct. 5

R. W. DISTRICT DEPUTY GRAND MASTERS— Continued.

A. G. Everett

John W. Niles

D. D.Hunt

John B. Fithian.. .
VV. D. Fullerton. ..
T. Van Antwerp.. .

J. S. Burns

Emerson Clark ...
Chas. T. Holmes.. .

J. C. Weis

W. N. Ewing

W. H. McClain.. ..
David E. Bruffett.
Chas. F. Tenney. ..

Frank Hudson

D. B.Hutchison . ..
Chas. C. Marsh ...

P. F. Clark

John W. Rose

R. H. Smith

Anthony Doherty.
Wm. Montgomer}'
Geo. S. Caughlan..
J. M. Burkhart. ..
Henry T. Goddard
J. \V. Morris

DISTRICTS

5th
6th
7th
8th
9th
10th
11th
12th
13th
14th
15th
16th
17th
18th
19th
20th
21st
22d
23d
24th
25th
26th
27th
28th
29th
30th

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87

$ 8 70

m

$ 14 70

110

11 00

4

15 00

58

5 80

6

11 80

38

3 80

6

9 80

84

8 40

6

14 40

130

13 00

6

19 00

164

16 40

6

22 40

171

17 10

6

23 10

163

16 30

6

22 30

150

15 00

6

21 00

141

14 10

6

20 10

85

8 50

6

14 50

130

13 00

6

19 00

153

15 30

6

21 30

185

18 50

6

24 50

215

21 50

6

27 50

244

24 40

6

30 40

211

21 10

6

27 10

231

23 10

6

29 10

187

18 70

6

24 -.0

242

24 20

6

30 20

261

26 10

6

32 10

280

28 00

6

34 00

326

32 60

6

38 60

252

25 20

6

31 20

365

36 50

6

42 50

RESIDENCE.

Rockford.

Sterling.

DeKalb.

Joliet.

Ottawa.

Sparland.

Orion.

Farmington.

Galesburg.

Peoria.

McLean.

Onarga.

Urbana.

Bement.

Springfield.

Jacksonville.

Bowen.

Girard.

Litchfield.

Toledo.

Clay City.

Moro.

East St. Louis

Marion.

Mt. Carmel.

Cairo.

COMMITTEES.

APPEALS AND GRIEVANCES.

Monroe C. Crawford

J. E. Dyas

Wm. Scott Cantrell

H. E. Hamilton

Herbert Preston

CHARTERED LODGES

James L. Scott

L. K. Byers

W. W. Watson

Thos. W. Wilson

D. D. Darrah

CORRESPONDENCE.

Joseph Robbins

330
160
307

172
148
283
185
126

263

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16 00

30 70

20

60

17 20
14 80
26 30

18 50
12 60

26 30

20

63 00
46 00
60 70
30 20
30 60

37 20
34 80
46 30

38 50
32 60

46 30

RESIDENCE.

Jonesboro.

Paris.

Benton.

Chicago.

Chkago.

Mattoon.
Altona.
Barry .
Springfield.
Bloomington.

Quincy

1904]

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127

committees— Continued.

CREDENTIALS.

J. I. McClintock

P. W. Barclay

G.W.Cyrus

FINANCE.

Geo. M. Moulton

Gil. W. Barnard

Sam W. Waddle

GRAND MASTER'S ADDRESS.

Wm. E. Ginther

J. H. Mitchell

Chas. H. Morrell

LODGES UNDER DISPENSATION.

Daniel J. Avery

H. C. Mitchell

R. T. Spencer

John Johnston

I. H. Todd

MASONIC JURISPRUDENCE.

J. M. Pearson

J C. Smith

Owen Scott

Edward Cook

Chas. P. Hitchcock

MILEAGE AND PER DIEM.

John A. Ladd

W. F. Beck

G. W. Tipsw ord

OBITUARIES.

Elmer D. Brothers

Frank W. Havill

Sidney S. Breese

PETITIONS.

C. M. Forman

Ben Hagle

Charles G. Young

RAILROADS AND TRANPORTATIONS.

J. O. Clifford

John Whitley

TO EXAMINE VISITORS.

H. T. Burnap

Isaac Cutter

Hugh A. snell

M. Bates Iott

Chas. H. Martin

284
365
241

1

1

126

182

275

5

7

308

6

1

281

170

2

150

110
231
214

1

249
185

281
228
202

259
241
231
12
226

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10

10

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18 20

27 50

50

70

30 80

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20

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20

15

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11

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23

10

21

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10

24 90

18 50

28

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20

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2 50

60

25 90

24

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23

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1

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22

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35

35
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56 50
44 10

20 10
20 10
32 60

38 20
47 50
20 50

35 70
65 80
35 60

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63 10

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20 20
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20 20
35 00

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53 10
51 40

20 10
44 90
38 50

48 10
42 80
40 20

22 50
20 60

45 90
44 10
43 10
21 20
42 60

RESIDENCE

Carini.
Cairo.
Camp Point.

Chicago.
Chicago,
tslooinington.

Charleston.
Mi. Vernon.
Chicago.

Austin.
Carbondale.
Chicago.
Chicago.
E. St. Louis.

Godfrey.
Chicago.
Decatur.
Chicago.
Peoria.

Sterling.
Olney.
Beecher City

Chicago.
Mt. Carmel.
Springfield.

E. St. Louis.

Louisville.

Taylorville.

Wheaton.
Englewood.

Upper Alton.
Camp Point.
Litchfield.
Evanston.
Lawrenc'ville

128

Proce<<lin(/s of the

[Oct. 5,

REPRESENTATIVES.

Bodlev

Equality

Harmony

Springfield. .
Friendship. ..

Macon

Rushville

St. John's

Warren

Peoria

Temperance..

Macomb

Clinton

Hancock

Cass

St. Clair

Franklin

Piasa

Pekin

Mt. Vernon. . .

Oriental

Barry

Charleston. ..
Kavanaugh. .
Monmouth. .
Olive Branch.

Hermon

Occidental . .
Mt. Joliet. ...
Bloomington

Hardin

Griggsville. ..

Temple

Caledonia

Unitv

Cambridge.

Carrollton

Mt. Moriah. . .
Benevolent. ..

Jackson

Washington..

Trio..

Fraternal

New Boston..

Belvidere

Lacon

St. Marks

Benton

Euclid

Pacific

Acacia

Eureka

Central

Chester

Rockton

Roscoe

Mt. Nebo

13

14
15
16

17
19
20
23

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25
27
29
31
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
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42
43
44
45
46
47
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49
50
51
52
53
55
57
5S

59
60
61
63
64
65
66
67
69
71
72
74
75
76

KEPKESE>TATIVE.

Samuel Woods

M. R. Moore

Truman P. Carter

Abraham Traugott

Fred M. Smith

James S. Baldwin

Herman H. Brown

Harmon N. Hackmau .

263
307
215
185
98
173

100

Victor McMurchy | 310

Charles H. Brown

Eugene Stapp

Ferd A. Fisher

H. K. Rule

Wm. H. Bartells

J. 3. Roach

Henry Christopherson.

Enos Johnson

George T. Davis

A. D. Dancey.

150
230
203
188
238
225
295
259
257
158
I.G. Gee ! 274

Peter Seese

O. K. Ga'rett

Fred G. Hudson

J. C. McKenzie

D. Van Nuvs

C. L. Sandusky

Charles W. Sha^v....
Samuel B. Bradford

Nimrod Mace

S. A. Hubbard

T. H. Farrand

Al. L. Gregory

John M. Walker

John W. Raabee

John V. -treed

Stuart E. Pierson...

W. M. Neff

F. A. Neville

A. L.Ward

W. O. Weihe ,

Arthur P. Casper

L. B. Tinder

E. L. Willitts

Mathew F. Perlet...

R. H. Maxwell

Hiram J. Dygert

T. S. Browning

Alvin Scott, Jr

C. E. Epley

John. G. Haage

R. B. Little

George D. Parkin. . .
Stephen A. Douglas ,
J. W. Armstrong ..

E. H. Wilson

Jas. E. Wooters

1
263
182
144
179
124
263
84

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255
246
150
368
36
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249
239
238
195
277
164
146

128

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307

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168

99
170
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321
102

86
224

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23 80
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29 50
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27 40

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18 20
14 40
17 90
12 40
26 30

8 40

12 60
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24 60
15 00
36 80
3 60

15 40
24 90
23 90
23 80
19 50
27 70

16 40
14 60
18 90

7 80
12 80

5 10

30 70

2 90

16 80
9 90

17 00

18 50
32 10
10 20

8 60
22 40

$32 30

36 70

27 50
24 50

15 80

23 30

28 70

16 00

37 00
21 00

29 00
26 30

24 80

29 80
28 50

35 50
31 90

31 70
21 80
33 40

6 10

32 30

24 20

20 40

23 90
18 40
32 30

14 40

i8 60
31 50

30 60

21 00
42 80

9 60

21 40

28 90

29 90
29 80

25 50

31 70

22 40
20 60

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13 80
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22 80

15 90

23 00

24 50

38 10

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28 40

1904]

Grand Lodge of Illinois.

129

REPRESENTATIVES— Continued.

Prairie

Waukegan

Scott

Whitehall

Vitruvius

DeWitt

Mitchell

Kaskaskia

Mt. eulaski

Havana

Fellowship

Jerusalem Temple

Metropolis

Stewart

Toulon

Perry

Samuel H. Davis..

Excelsior

Taylor

Edwardsville

Astoria

Rockford

Magnolia

Lewistown

Winchester

Lancaster

Versailles

Trenton

Lebanon

Jonesboro

Bureau

Robert Burns

Marcelline

Rising Sun

Vermont

Elgin

Waverly

Henry

Mound

Oquawka

Cedar

Greenup

Empire

Antioch

Raleigh

Greenfield

Marion...

Golconda

Mackinaw

Marshall

Sycamore

Lima

Hutsonville

Polk

Marengo

Geneva

Olney

Garden City

Ames

Richmond

DeKalb

A. W. Rawson. ..

Lee Center

Clayton

Bloomfield

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REPKESENTATIVE.

W. H. Slanker

Alvah L. Rogers

T. E. Alsop

Charles W. Dossell..

Julius C. Hertel

E. B. Mitchell

P. A. Gruner

P. E. Sauer

R. D. Clark

George H. Schwing.
W. D. Abney

C. D. Mowry

J. A. Helm

Charles M. Morton ..

W. P. Hall

J. A. James

R. C. McCr. die

W. A. C. Dunham....

Elijah Mason

Charles H. Spillman

E. E. David

W. L. DeLany

Wm. E. Moffett

Nels Rasmussen. ..

R. M. Kiggs

G. M. Say lor'

Hugh T. Williams ..

Jas. M. Hill

J. H. Pulgham

D. W. Grear

N. W. Isaacson

E. J. Glansey

Elijatrshepherd

C. J. Wigh man

J. P. Marshall

Ole Hanson

C. F. Wemple

G. A. Deterding

W. S.Wilson

John Ray

L. F. Aldrich

E. G. Mulvey

Henry Patch

W. T Cable

T. G. Capps

J. M. Morrow

Ferd Salzmann

H W.Hilli

J. D. Shoemaker

A. C. Cliffe

J. W. Jacobs

J. B. Cato

S. M. Schoemann

Lester Barber

F. M. Maistiller

Wm. H. Rupe

Robert S. Daly

C. A. Simlngton

James V. Aldricn.. .
Frank E. Wright...

F. L. Babcock

Jas. E. Gray

Jas. L. Staker

John J. McKibbin . .

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22 90

24 80

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9 70

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21 90

20 40

31 20

13 60

17 40

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32 70
27 80

14 70

18 30

25 40

29 50

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33 80

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27 10

9 70
27 00

26 20
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11 50

36 40

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11 20
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25 70
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29 10
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Proceedings of the

[Oct. 5,

REPRESENTATIVES— Continued.

REPRESENTATIVE.

Effingham

Vienna

Bunker Hill

Fidelity

Clay

Russell

Alpha

Delavan

Utbana

McHenry

Kewanee

Waubansia

Virden

Hope

Edward Dobbins

Atlanta

Star in the East..

Milford

Nunda

Evergreen

Girard

Wavne

Cherry Valley.. . .

Lena

Matteson

Mendota

Staunton

Illinois Central...

Wabash

Moweaqua

Germania

Meridian

Abingdon

My.- tic Tie

Cyrus

Fulton City

Dundee

Farmington

Herrick

Freedom

La Harpe

Louisville

King Solomon's...

Homer

Sheba

Centralia

Lavely

Flora

Corinthian

P^airtield

T amaroa

Wilmington

Wm. B. Warren..

Logan

Cleveland

Shipman

Ipav.i

Gillespie

Newton

Mason

New Salem

Oakland

Mahomet

Leroy

Geo. Washington

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David L. Wright....

A. E. McKenzie

H. R. Budd

O. C. Carson

Fred Brown

Emberson Hill

John A. Burktialter
James D. Taylor. . . .
Frank A. Somers...

John Evanson

Julius Schoekel

R. F. Morrow

W. P. Askins

J. B. Stout

A. O. Haines

A. E. Elmore

E. W. Scott

Wm. W. Roberts...
John H. Bamberger

Poilip Flood

George W. Smith...

H. B Kezar

Wallace E. Tucker.
Frank W. Wheeler

W. P. Wall '..'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.
Frank N. Jewett. ..

W. M. Deckard

James C. Cooper. ...

F W. Thomson

A. J. Foot

W. M. Morse

H. L. Griffin

J. M. Landis

J. M. Eaton

George T. King

A. G. Morse

George F. Graff

Fred Wiley

James C. Mayor

Alsie N. Tolii ver...

Fred L. Dressel

Frank Brewer

T. W. Gibson

N. M. Rexford

Isaac Pane ike

H. V. Pisley

C. F. Preston

Henry Sessell

A. H. Evans

John Atkinson

O. B. Conklin

Charles E. Smith.. .

John McKean

L. I). Smith

I M. VanHorn

G. W. Schmidt

Ed Nigh

Wilson Turner

Sol. V. Cnanie

F. C. Winkler

F. O. Jahr

H. R. Ay ton

Harrison Reed

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24 00

26 70
13 50
16 30
15 70
13 00

4 60
13 10

20 70
29 90
22 50

14 60
8 70
8 80
4 30

11 40

21 10

15 20
8 40

12 60
3 70

24 50
9 50

18 00
18 60
20
7 20
17 30

11 00

12 80

13 60

4 80

16 90
22 40

7 50

21 60

22 80

25 70

14 30

26 60
25 20

17 30

23 60
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19 50

22 30
21 70
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10 60

19 10

26 70
35 90
28 50

20 60
14 70
14 80
10 30

17 40

27 10

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9 70

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18 80

19 60

10 80

22 90

28 40
13 50

27 60

28 80

31 70

20 30

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29 60

11 60
31 70
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11 30

6 10

21 60
6 10

29 80

26 30

30 00
28 30

27 10

31 10

22 60
20 10
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19 40

1 904]

Grand Lodge of Illinois.

131

REPRESENTATIVES— Continued.

Pana

Columbus

Lovington

Manchester

New Haven

Wyanet

Farmers

Blandinsville

DuQuoin

Dallas City

Charter Oak

Cairo

Black Hawk

Mt. Cirmel

Western btar. . .

Shekinah

Galva

Horicon

Greenville

El Paso

Rota Morris

Golden Gate

Hitabard

Robinson

Heyworth

Aledo

Avon Harmony . ,

Aurora

Donnelson

Warsaw ...

Mattoon

Amon

Channahon

Illinois

Franklin Grove

Vermilion ..

Kingston

La Prairie

Paris

Wheaton

Levi Lusk

Blanev

Carmi

Miners

Byron

Milton

Elizabeth

Accordia

Jo Daviess

Neoga

Kansas

Brooklyn

Meteor

Catlin

Plymouth

De Soto

Genoa

Wataga

Chenoa

Prophetstown...

Pontiac

Dills

Quincy

Benjamin

Wauconda

226

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REPRESENTATIVE.

Jesse E. Reese

George E. Mvers..

B. N. McMullin

L. C. Funk

I. A. Foster

H. D. Weaver

J. K. West

J. O. Oakman

W. Hemenway
Geo. M. Cummings.

T. F. Blankley

W. F. Gitason. ...

Ed. F. Tyrrell

J. G. Stanstieid

H. W. Berks

Jas. M Howell

V A. Wigren

H. D. Herbert

J H. McHenry

J. L. Boner

John Goodwin

H. C. Spurgeon

F. W. Froelich

J. S. Atabott

O J. Hougham

Charl. L. Gregory .

C.B. Warner

H. G. Logare

W.H. Young

Jno. W. Marsh

P. B. Linn

E. M. McPherson ..

Lew Gaskill

Peter A. Reinhard

F. M. Banker

John W. O-man

L. M Morrison

C. N. Vertrees

Thos. Moyer

A. Thies

S. P. Prescott

W. H. Halway

T.W.Hall

D. B.Blewett

John H.Helm

J. A. Miller

R. F.Taylor

Fred Lippert

Geo. E. Stickney

R. D. Marsh

W. E. Brown

A. E. Bennett

Frank C. Paust

A. Jones

Robt. L. Cloud

Marion Kellv

Cnas. E. Saul

J. M. Cooper

W. G. Abbott

Edgar Rodes

W. E. Herbert

I. P. Kilgore

Emmet Howard —

D. W. Crippen

Geo. Glynch

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250
168
232
297
111
373
210
288
222
231
365
243
249
128
308
139

75
248
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113
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246
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248
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165

83
259
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102
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23 20

29 70

11 10
37 30

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28 80

22 20

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24 30
24 90

12 SO

30 80

13 90

7 50
24 80
11 70

11 30
18 60
24 60
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17 60

18 30

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24 50

24 80

17 20

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15 00

8 80

14 20
26 50

23 60

16 00
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9 20
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16 50
8 30

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33 70

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18 40

17 40

8 20
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22 20
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15 50
10 20
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9 20

25 60

26 30

24 10

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22 80
29 20

35 70

17 10
43 30

27 00
34 80

28 20

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42 50

30 30
30 90

18 80

36 80

19 90

13 50
30 80
15 70

17 30
24 60
30 60
26 50
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23 60

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30 50

30 80

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11 50

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20 20
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29 60

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15 20

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39 70

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18 90
28 20

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11 90

21 50
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13 20

31 60

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J. H. Bander

E. A. Hills

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15 10

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27 30

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12 20

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14 90
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6 70
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$11 70

14 40

L. P. Vass

10 40

W. C. Hobbs

James Kewley

14 50

W. A. Davidson

19 10

T. .1. Pickett

George D. Bell

Peter C. Grav

A. L. Darling

25 20
6 10

12 20

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Kilwinning

York

Wm.K. Forsyth

C. M.Eddy

Charles U. Downey

T. W. Richards

6 30

4 10

23 30

25 50

C. D.Tavlor

8 60

Edwin Whorr all

15 90

George A. Miller

28 60

George E. Carlson

W. C. Kempson

22 40

13 00

Dunlap

18 40

Charles S. Moore

24 40

12 80

J. B. Lee

34 60

27 50

W.C. Stuckev

20 70

John Griefzu.

31 90

21 00

John P. Springer

C. H. Saxton

24 50

29 60

21 00

New Columbia

Thomas N. Cummin

A.F.Stewart

40 90
21 10

W.J. Hubbard

37 60

A. M. Bloxam

25 30

33 30

E.W.Oliver

14 80

18 20

V I. Ball

28 90

W. M. Hanson

19 70

J. H. Mickey

27 30

Sublette

E. T. Leith

C. V. Gilmore

15 30

25 30

A. H. Birch

15 80

G W. Moschel

20 60

G.W.Lawrence

33 0J

26 10

31 60

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D. A. Hewitt

12 20

Blackberry

H A. Dean

10 40

Sherman T. Henry

P. W. Lill

Joseph Palmer

2-1 90

34 20

Noble

29 90

J. D. Hawks

22 30

16 80

A. C. Stadler

21 30

O. H. Woodworth

21 80

22 00

Thomas E. Brown

34 90

B. W. Vandine

22 60

13 40

S. J Hobbs

30 60

12 70

J.T Corliss

12 10

S. F. McBride

33 80

34 30

1904]

Grand Lodge of Illinois.

133

REPRESENTATIVES— Continued.

REPHE-ENTATIVE.

Gill

La Moille

Waltham

Mississippi

Bridgeport

El Dara

Kankakee .

Ashmore

Tolono

Oconee

Blair

Jerseyville

Muddy Point... .

Shiloh

Kinmundy

Buda

Odell

Kishwaukee

Mason City

Batavia

Ramsey

Bethaito

Stratton

Thos. J. Turner.

Miihra

Hesperia

Bollen

Evening Star.. .

Lawn Ridge

Paxton

Marseilles

Freeburg

Reynoldsburg . .

Oregon

Washburn

Landmark

Lanark

Exeter

Scot! ville

Red Bud

Sunbeam

Chebanse

Kendrick

Summit

Murray ville

Annawan

Makanda

Pbil«.

Chicago

Camargo „.

Sparland

Casey

Hamshire

Cave-in-Rock . . .

Chesterfield

Watseka

S. D. Monroe. . . .

Yates City

Mention

Loami

Bromwell

New Hartford. .

Maroa

Irving

Nokomis

382
383
384
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390
391
392
393
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399
401
402
403
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414
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427
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432
433
434
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Richard Boston

Prank E. DaytoD ..

E.M.Cook

Harry R. Retmau..

C. E. Cullison

A. J. Brown

W.J. Martin

C. R.Mitchell

J. E. Hartleb

J. W. Heckethorn.

W. E. Anderson

Chas. E. Miner

A. N. Beals

Albert Krausse

W. W.Lowe

Jno. P. Taylor

E. M. Vaughan

H. G. Burgess

W. Y. McLemore..

Chas. R Briggs

Hiram Hennon

Jacob Prey

W. A. Tweedy

Henry Steinbock . . .

Ulys-ses J. Grim

Arthur Welding...

C. M. Briggs

L. W. Lamoree

J. P. Irwin

W. M Churchill....

L. J. Joseph

U. S. Cavitt

W. J. Emerson

S. H. Lesch

Alex. S. Irvine

E. M. Tallman

C. N. Priest

John Fanning

John J. Fox

Wallace Parker
Burt E. Burroughs

J. K. Wilson

Frank Howsman ..

John T. Warcup

Ed. Everett. Jr

Oliver McKenzie

Julius Lenke

Jacob M . Loeb

Prank Couch

T. E. Gapen . .

W. W. Bruce

Prank Chaiming . . .

Fred Schulze

John J. Leach

Ederar B. wider

N. F. Lindsay

M. W. Thorns >n

G. F. Warner

John Lowry

Geo. Hutchinson

Geo. H. Ellis

W. T. McLean

C. B. McKinney

D. H. Zepn..

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13 70

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27 70

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134

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Blazing Star

Jeffer onville

Plainview

Tremo t

Palmyra ,

Denver

Huntsville

Cobden

South Macon

Cheney's Grove —

McLean

Rantoul

Kendall

Amity

Gordon

( olumbia

Walshville ,

Manito

Rutland

Pleiades

Wyoming

Momence

Lexington

Edge wood

Xenia

Bowen

Andrew Jackson ..

Clay City

Cooper

Shannon

Martin

Libertvville

Tower'Hill

Stone hort ,

Colchester

Alma

Murphysboro

St. Paul

Stark

Woodhull

Odin

East St Louis

Meridian Sun

O. H. Miner

Home

Parkersburg

J. D. Moody ,

Wade-Barney

Bradford

Andalusia

Litchfield

Abraham Lincoln .

Roseviile

Anna ♦

Illiopolis

Monitor

Chatham

Evans

Delia

Covenant

Rossville

Minooka

Adams

Maquon

Ashton

458
4t0
461
462
463
464
465
466
467
468
469
470
471
472
473
474
475
476
477
478
479
481
482
484
485
486
487
488
489
490
491
492
493
495
496
497
498
500
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501
505
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509
510
512
514
516
517
518
519
520
521
522
523
524
525
526
527
528
529
530
531

KEPHESEVi'ATIVK.

H. J. Fuller

Wat Bestow

R. M. Taylor

C. S. Mahon

H. D. Seigfried

George burmood..

R. H. Lawrence

A. A. Ander.son

George L. Jackson

W. W. Harris

W. A. Pfeiffer

P. L. Hoadly

A. L. Hamilton

N. P. Nilson

H. Reichenbach . ..
S. Z. T. Ratcleff....
James A. McComas
William E. Jones.,
'l homas E. Koser..

A. J. Wrigley

Charles B. Astle . ..

A. H. Scroggin

Joseph Danks

T. W. Kepley

J. H. Cross

George W. Willard
W. P. Dransfield...

L. C. Stewart

H. K. Gemmill

George Fleishman.

J. L. Cannon

U. S. Spears

H. L. Burford

W.H. Stephen

Harris Levy

George Crocker

E. S. Leport

F. T. Pritchard....

F. T.Boring

J. L. Woodruff

C. E. Oakes

J. B. Salkeld

L. J. Frahm

F. M. Rash

J. A. Heindman

E. 1). Salisbury...

R, K. Deyo

Charles Wenks

John K. Milnor

A. E. Billings

W. A. Carr

W. Henderson

W. M. Close

D. W.R.id

P. W. Sabine

J. B. Bowdish

F. J. Davis

F. L. Gerwig

W. A. Thayer '.

J. P. Journey

G.G. Shearer

L. T. Moore

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318

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281

28 10

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29 40
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31 80
35 50

29 90
22 40
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1904]

Grand Lodge of Illinois.

135

REPRESENTAVIVES— Continued.

REPRESENTATIVE.

Seneca

Altamont

Cuba

Sherman ....

Plainfield

J. R. Gorin . .

Lockport

Chatsworth

Harlem

Sigel

Towanda

Cordova

Virginia

Valley

Sharon

Long Point. . .
Plum River ..

Humboldt

Dawson

Lessing

Leland

Thomson

Madison

Villa Ridge. . .

Winslow

Pleasant Hill

Albany

Frankfort . .

Time

Jacksonville .

Bardolph

Gardner

Pera

Capron

OFallon

Viola

Prairie City..
Hazel Dell....

Dongola

Shirley

Highland

Vesper

Fisher

Princeton ...

Troy

Fairmont

Gilnian

Fit-ldon

Miles Hart . ..
Cerro Gordo .

Farina

Watson

Clark

Hebron

Streator

Piper

Sheldon

Union Park .
Lincoln Park
Rock River. ..

Patoka

Forest

Wadley

Good Hope . ..
Basco

532
533
534
535
536
537
538
539
540
541
542
543
544
547
550
552
554
555
556
557
558
559
560
562
564
565
566
567
569
570
572
573
574
575
576
577
578
580
581
582
583
584
585
587
588
590
591
592
595
600
601
602
603
604
607
608
609
610
611
612
613
614
616
617
618

C. X. R. Tiomas.

F. Naumer

G. M. Heller

.S. H. Calaway . . .
A. E. Mottinger .

i£. E. Crow

F S. Hutton

Phil hampson ...

J. B. Singer

Sam. Marsh

Chas. Sallows

J. A. McGee

T. R. Lees

P. C. Bacon

W. S. Ramsay

P. M. Rinderbacher

F. A. Hathaway

John McGinnes

P. Maas

Wm. Julian

Roy I. Houghton

R. Alsop

H. Whiteaker

Saml. Sinclair

W. E. Bybee

Louis Hooblcr

D. B. Garland

C. E. Bagby

A. M. Hallowell

W. W. Hendricks ...

M. H. Shinker

W. R. Mariett

T. Schilling

G. Harrison

J. M.Hilton

M. Sturts

T. N. Henley

J. A. Hougham

L. Blattner

Geo. Sanderson

N. E. Porter

Fred Lehman

Fred Campbell

G. W. Shultz

G. L. Harris

E. F.Brown

D. W. Chamberlain.

J. M Harlan

J. W. Lackey

G. T. Austin

O. M. Mauk

W. M. Miller

C. G. Austin

J. F. Earl

G. S. Hummer

J. T. Randall

W. G. Nourse

W. P. Benson

J. M. Smith

J R. Ives

C. R. Wawne

G. A. Lackens

J. B. Elder

211
191
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48
142
33
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21 10
19 10
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14 20
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195
118
153
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176
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103
126

143
258
353
133
266
144
314
260
215
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108
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291

167

209

198

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132

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163

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137

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272

178

163

223

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91

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110
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13 30

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14 40
31 40
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19 70

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7 00
29 10
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20 90
19 80
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26 70

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7 40

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9 30
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14 10
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22 30
28 30

26 60

24 60
11 40

15 40
15 10

14 50
6 30
6 20

17 00
30 70

15 30
28 70
26 00
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Berwick

New Hope

Hopedale

Locust

Union

Tuscan

Norton

Ridge Farm

E. F. W. Ellis ...

Buckley

Rochester

Peotone

Keystone

Comet

Apollo

D. C Cregier

Oblong City

San Jose

Somonauk

Blueville

Camden

At wood

Greenview

Yorktown

Mozart

Laf yette

Rock Island

Lambert

Grand Chain

South Park

Mavo

Greenland

Crawford.

Erie

Burnt Prairie...

Herder

Fillmore

Eddyville

Normal

Waldeck

Pawnee

A. O. Fay

Enfield

Illinois City

Clement

Morrison ville —

Blue Mound

Burnside

Gallatia

Rio

Garfield

Orangeville

Clifton

Englewood

Iola

Raymond

Herrin s Prairie

Shiloh Hill

Belle Rive

Richard Cole

Hutton

Pleasant Plains.

Temple Hill

Alexandria

Braidwood

619
620
622
623
627
630
631
632
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634
635
636
639
641
642
643
644
645
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653
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656
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659
660
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664
665
666
667
668
669
670
672
673
674
675
676
677
679
680
681
682
683
684
685
686
687
688
690
691
692
693
695
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698
700
701
702
704

P. H. Shelton

James Snyder

J. Fishel

George Ritctie

A. H. Brooks

J. W. McGhee

D. B. Keighiti

C. M. Harrold

P. R. Copeland

E. Hull

J. M. Bell

J. Barnhart

L. A. Becker

M. H. Hand

B. M. Lovell

E. C. Uuensing

C. W. Griffy

J. W. Arington

C. suppes

C. A Prater

F. Hester

W. E. Carroll

J. O. McKee

W. C. Stilson

Jacob Winter

C. D. Gardiner

C. I. Tedersen

W. M. Coble

J. M. Jones

G. A. Larson

J. Gossman

B. Tipsword

J. T. Athey

W. Smith

G. E. Je^sup

John Bade

R. J. Wright

E. S. Bargn

R. G. Bright

M Wingerning

H. E. Farnam

M. T. Culver

J. N. Wilson

W. H. Elliott

C. E. Knorr

J. P. King

C. L. Montgomery.

M. C. Howd

T. M. Johnson

G. W. Ernst

O. H. Ahrens

A. C. Ebel

N. T. Stevens

A. Guthrie

M. H. Patrick

P. J. Hermon

D. D. Williams

H. Shaw

W. R. Ross

A. J. Kelso

Z. C Jones

W. H. Dorand

H. C. Green

F. H. Blavney

lA. H. Wheaton

$23 20

23 90
20 90
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39 90

36 50
14 00
20 00

14 70

15 30

25 30

10 00
6 20

20 40
6 30
6 20

27 50
22 30

11 90

26 20
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22 00

24 00
18 10

18 60

37 30

22 40

32 30

41 30
6 60

28 30

27 40
27 40

19 30

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23 10

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36 70

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6 70

28 10
28 00

38 10

37 10
35 30

4 40

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26 10

42 70

23 20

11 70

1904]

Grand Lodge of Illinois.

137

REPRESENTATIVES— Continued.

Ewing

Joppa

Star ■

Farmer City

Providence

Collinsville

Johnsonville

Newton

Elvaston

Calumet

Arcana

May

Chapel Hill

Rome

Walnut

Omaha

Chandlerville —

Rankin

Golden Rule

Raritan

Waterman

Lake Creek

Eldorado

Harbor

Carman

Gibson

Morning Star

Sheridan

Arrowsmith

Sauuemin

Lakeside

New Holland

Danvers

Scott Land

Goode

Winnebago

Weldon

Centennial

Alta

Akin

Lyndon

Loundsbury

Allendale

Ogden

Pre-emption

Hardinsville

Verona

Mystic Star

Orel

Siblev

Van Meter

Crete

Suliivan

Palace

Littleton

Triluminar

Mizpah

St. Elmo

LaGrange

Bay City

New Burnside . .

Mansfield

Lake View

Grand Crossing
Ravenswood

705

706
709
710
711
712
713
714
715
716
717
718
719
72 1

REPRESENTATIVE.

723
724
725
726

728
729
730
731
732
733
734
735
737
738
739
741
742
743
744
745
746
747
748
749
750
751
752
754
755
756
757
758
759
761
762
763
764
765
766
767
768
769
770
771

773

774
776

John W. Hill

F. L. Heath

C. R. Finley

W. H. Hutcnins....

H M. Hansen

W. E. Hadley

E. M.Turner

A. J. Davis

E. F. Jolidon

A. P. Peirce

B. E. McCloy

C. W. Hart

I. N. Lentz

R. P. Casey

A. E. Burress

M. S. Randolph

H. J. Anderson

B. R. Cole

W. J. Downey

W. Cavins

W. T. Wietberger.
R. S. Prick

D. L. Wood

L. M. Randolph...

J. Edmonds

W. A. Hoover

G. W. Br.int

W. H. Bernard ....

P. H. Lannon

E. J. Beach

James Peters

M. B. M unwell

J. F. Jennings

J. B. Marrin

C. P. Coolidge

V. C. Swigart

E. Wimmer

Jay Frye

George H. Flamnigan.
P. C. Riley

J. W. Smith.
James Scott.

Leon. Houston . . . .

Fred Harford

William Aschcroft.

W. W. Reid

W. W. Porter

O. Bigelow

F. E. Pifer

Frank J. Page

John W. Lambert..

A. F. Hanson

A. C. McKay

George W. Bledsoe.

Fred A. Crane

C. A. Golden

O. A. Wise

J. V. Champion

•lohn Nelson

C.M.White

P. L.Ford

298
308

99
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252
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29 70

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7 50
44 40
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19 10

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138

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REPRESENTATIVES- 6»/(ttwu<?d.

Gurney

Wright's Grove

Siloam

Potomac

Constamtia

Beacon Lieht.. .
Riverton Union

Morris

Ltrna

Auburn Park.. .

Pittstield

Broadlands

Calhoun

A. T. Darrah....

Tadmor

Mvrtle

E. M. Husted ...
Normal Park ..

Sidell

Colfax

Kenwood

Sangamon

Williamson

Neponset

Kensington

S. M. Dalzell ....

Nebo

Royal

Cornland ,

Gillham

Tracv

Melvin

De Land

Sigwalt

Ohio

Lawn

Ridgway

Creal Sprines ...

Ben Hur

Columbian

Henderson

New Canton

Belknap

Pearl

Grove

Arthur

Mazon

Sequoit

Edgar

Trinity

Rockport

Findlay

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E. J. Mosser .

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Chas. Unverzagt

Alfred Hall

Wm. T. Ham

C. W. Hartman..
W. H. Cassady. ..
Geo. G. Fisher...
Wm. I. Hesley ...

D. P. Mclntyre . .
Jas. H. DeLong. .
Clark Harrold. ..

P. C. Karber

D. A. Smith

P. P. Armstrong
Geo. H. Parker. .
W. G. Cathcart ..

Wm. Gaddis

J. H. Prothers....

W. H. Perry

C. M. Carpenter...

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W. A. Fowler

J. V. Pinkf-rton...

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C. F. Lanham

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C. D. Hiller

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J. H. Wood

J. C. Clemmensen.
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W. J. Blackard
J. W. Burnett..
W. H. Blencoe..

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M. D. M' ssic . . .
J. E. Holt

G. W. Dow

J. O. Olsen

A. J. Maxwell..

A. E. stiles

Joseph Turner

W. O. Wilson ...

W. D. Miller

S. B. Perry

L. A. Dolton

John Bennett...
G. D. Leach

F. Kohl

E. E. Buchan ...
C. L. Watson...
W. D. Holmes...

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H. A. Baldwin

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A. J. Pease

Thomas Rankin

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C. L. Wood

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H. B. Schreiner

A. E. Eisele

P. S. McClory

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J. H. Grace

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G. W. TlPSWORD,

Committee.

REPORT— -Committee on Chartered Lodges.
Bro. Thos. W. Wilson, from the Committee on Chartered
Lodges, presented the following report. On motion it was
adopted :
To the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. M.:

Your Committee on Chartered Lodges, having carefully examined the
returns of the constituent lodges for the year ending June 30, 1904, submit
the following summary of the tabulated statement :

INCREASE.

Number raised 5,662

Number reinstated 416

Number admitted 1,33 1

Number added for error 40

Total increase 7.455

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DECREASE.

Number suspended 722

Number expelled 18

Number dimitted 1.355

Number died 1,083

Number deducted for error 23

Total decrease 3,201

Net gain in membership 4,254

Total membership June 30, 1904 70,921

Number of Chartered Lodges 732

Members residing in Illinois 63,889

Non-resident members 7,032

Number initiated 6,207

Number passed 5707

Received from dues year ending June 30, 1904 $63,280 95

CONTRIBUTIONS FOR CHARITY.

Contributed to members, their widows and orphans $38,117 08

Contributed to those not members 3,217 60

Contributed to Illinois Masonic Orphans' Home 657 10

Total contributed by lodges to charity $41,991 78

We are again pleased to report that every constituent lodge in this
Grand Jurisdiction has reported promptly and that all M. \Y. Grand
Lodge dues have been paid.

We desire to thank the R. W. Grand Secretary for the neat and ac-
curate tables furnished by him, which . greatly lessened the work of the
committee.

The greatest increase ever reported in one year is shown both in
membership and in amount of dues collected, for general fund and for
charity, and the M. W. Grand Lodge is to be congratulated on the con-
tinued and increasing prosperity in this Grand Jurisdiction.

All of which is respectfully and fraternally submitted.

James L. Scott,
L. K. Byers,
W. W. Watson,
Delmar D. Darrah,
Thos. W. Wilson.

F . M . BLAIR

Elected M.W. Grand Master 1861—1862

1904] Grand Lodge of Illinois. 141

KEPOET— Committee on Obituaries.
Bro. E. D. Brothers presented the following report from
the Committee on Obituaries. On motion it was adopted unan-
imously by a rising vote :

To the M. IV. Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M. of the State of Illinois:

With bowed heads, moistened eyes and sorrowing hearts, again we
offer our tribute of praise at the sable bier of our fraternal dead. But
this praise is not for them; each has completed his record and gone to
his reward;

"Nor steel, nor poison,
Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing
Can touch him farther."

In thus honoring and respecting them, we magnify ourselves. Amidst the
ceaseless turmoil, the carking cares, the infinite exactions of business, we
pause a moment to review and study the lessons of hope and promise, en-
couragement and inspiration in the records of their lives, in order that,
by the measure of their intellectual, spiritual and moral excellence we
may see and determine how near we approach the exemplars of character.
The lessons to be learned, the precepts to be inferred are to be incorporated
into our lives and become potent factors in shaping our conduct.

We are the product of our ideals. We follow them as the stream fol-
lows its channel from mountain to sea, or as the bullet speeds on its
course true to the direction of the initial impulse. Given the youth's
ideals, you should be able to presage his future ; if there be added his
environments, you should be able to write his biography and if his capacity
be included, you should be able to read his destiny. Always and ever,
man has been a hero-worshiper. The exaltation of patriots, the enshrin-
ing in memory of the world's benefactors, the apotheosizing of rulers and
the deification of saints are alike the product and manifestation of that
eternally present, persisting, active aspiration of mind and heart to at-
tain the infinite :

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"Striving to aim at something higher,
Striving to win the heart's desire,
With noble zeal the soul to inspire."

And why should we not? Where has been established the limit of
human attainment? Who dares predict its boundaries? In the gate-way
of progress, stand no cherubim guarding with flaming swords the tree of
knowledge and understanding.

"Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell
Aspiring to be angels, men rebel,"

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conveys an immense falsehood under the guise of an innocent simile.
"Thus far canst thou go and no farther" is the language of defeated, im-
potent effort and although weird in its arrogance and magic in its impe-
riousness, was never spoken to aspiring genius by the Supernatural. Men
come and go as snow-flakes fill the air, as the great Olympiads of time
flow into the mighty cycles of eternity and in all ages and everywhere,
"kings would be angels and meaner creatures kings," while from the
deeps of the eternal there has never yet come a warning voice and over all
the arching heavens have ever smiled a silent benediction.

Knowledge of the external precedes knowledge of the internal. Ex-
trospection comes before introspection ; perception first, reflection after-
wards. The former is food for mental and spiritual growth, — the basis of
knowledge ; the latter, exercise for their development. The one suggests
big; the other, great. Instinctively, but unconsciously, the mind projects
and infuses itserf into the objects of nature within its ken, giving them
form, beauty, faculties and animation. We speak of the wailing winds,
the laughing waters, the babbling brook, the weeping willows, the sighing
boughs, the cruel cold, the tender zephyrs, the pitiless rain, the blushing
rose, the modest lily and so on throughout the entire category of human
attributes, faculties and emotions. To the ancient mind, to perceive was to
vivify and spiritualize. Earth and heaven, land and sea, mountain and
plain, forest and prairie, oasis and desert, river and lake, day and night,
heat and cold ; barren rock and fertile valley, dark chasm and lurid vol-
cano, soft flame and driving thunderbolt; times, seasons, motion, rest;
the source of life, the causes of death, — all the mysterious, active, potent
forces and phenomena of nature were infused and suffused with a life and
spirituality which made them kin to man. The earth, the sea, the air,
the silvery moon, the mighty orb of day, the twinkling stars, were teeming
with throbbing, tender, sympathic life. They regarded :

"All are but parts of one stupendous whole.
Whose body nature is and God the soul :
Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze,
Glows in the stars and blossoms in the trees.
Lives through all life, extends through all extent,
Spreads undivided, operates unspent."

But food is a burden if not assimilated. Lessons, to be useful, must be
applied. Worthless are the examples which we do not follow; meaningless
the maxims not incorporated into our lives. Hence, seeing the trend of
the intellectual and spiritual growth of his age, the great Law-giver,
Solon, caused to be inscribed over the entrance to the Parthenon, in let-
ters that all might read, those memorable words, gnothi scanton — KNOW
THYSELF. Pause and examine yourself. Shut your eyes and look
within. Employ your senses in the development of your own soul. Put
all nature under tribute to promote the upbuilding of a purer, nobler

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manhood. Dull and near the clay must be he who, in the solemn presence
of the dead, does not receive, from the record of their years, encourage-
ment and inspiration.

When the winds roar, the rains dash and the heavens flame, we know
that sooner or later the lightning will strike ; yet, after the bolt, we are
shocked and appalled in the presence of the ruin it has wrought. When,
on the shore of the ocean, we behold the leviathans of commerce and
travel plowing through its waves, we know that sooner or later the spirits
of the storm will lash it into fury and mingle with its roar the wail of
helpless mariners and creaking of grounded ship ; yet, after the conflict of
the elements, we stand aghast and impotent at sight of the silent forms
floating on the surface and the melancholy wreckage which strews the
shore. We view with complacency the somber, sullen mountain sleeping in
the distance, although we know that sooner or later its mighty crater will
belch forth a deluge of destruction; yet, after the eruption, we gaze with
horror and amazement at the havoc in its wake. We enjoy the hopes,
promises and inspirations of Spring, — the awakening of an innate world
into life and beauty, although we know that, in the fullness of time, the
fragrant flowers will fade, the green grass wither, the sun withdraw his
potent rays and the songster wing his way to hi" Southern home. We
know that sooner or later, whether during the joy of youth, the responsi-
bilities of manhood or the lethargy of age, but with the certainty of fate
and the remorseless advance of destiny, by slow degrees or sudden shocks,
there comes to each of the children of men that catastrophe called Death.
We see it with the first touch of light on our infant eyes and the last
flickering ray which penetrates our obscured vision; yet, after the lamp
of life has gone out, even

"Before decay's effacing fingers
Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,"

we are speechless, palsied, forlorn, in the presence of the lifeless clay of a
departed friend ; and with the first return of conscious meditation, comes
the reflection,

"We are such stuff
As dreams are made on and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep."

But we know, too, that ever is winter succeeded by spring; that the
' darkness of night only makes more brilliant the flush of morning ; that
death but moves aside the curtains between us and "the vast and opening
scenes of boundless eternity."

OTHER JURISDICTIONS.

The Pale Horse and his Rider have invaded many of our sister Grand
Lodges, and unhorsed and sent to their long homes many who had

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attained prominence not only within their jurisdictions, but also throughout
the country.

"I doubt not through the ages

One increasing purpose runs,
And the thoughts of men are widened
With the process of the suns."

Among the illustrious dead whom we should mention are the follow-
ing:

R. W. Bro. Charles Clarence Warner, Deputy Grand Master, 1898-9,
of the M. W. Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M., of Arizona. Born at Somo-
nauk, Illinois, August 19, 1850; killed in an accident in the Copper Queen
Mine, Bisbee, Arizona, June 13, 1904.

A good husband and loving father, a skillful craftsman, loyal friend,
respected citizen and a trusted employee has gone to receive the reward
that awaits the good man.

"The sun is but a speck of fire,

A transient meteor in the sky ;
The soul, immortal as its Sire.
Shall never, never die/'

ARKANSAS.

M. W. Bro. George E. Dodge, Past Grand Master of the M. W. Grand
Lodge A. F. and A. M., of Arkansas, 1881-2. Born at Little Rock, Arkan-
sas, July 6, 1845, died in the same city, February 6, 1904.

The sadness of this bereavement is intensified in contemplation of the
many virtues and the great personal worth of the departed brother. Wise
in counsel, modest and dignified in bearing, upright, capable and true in
every relation, his sudden going is the occasion of universal regret. Let
us emulate his virtues, that our last end may be like his.

R. W. Bro. George T. Cooper, Deputy Grand Master of the M. W.
Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. M., of Colorado. Born near Independence,
Jackson county, Missouri, April 15, 1845 ; died at Denver, Colorado, June
20, 1904.

Many honors came to Brother Cooper. He was devoted, loyal and
true in all his Masonic connections. His home life was beautiful ; tender
and regardful as a husband, kind and loving as a father. Such a life
lends a model and inspiration to youth, and at the same time gives strength
and assurance to all who come in touch therewith.

i 904] Grand Lodge of Illinois. 145

M. W. Bro. William Forsyth Bynum, Past Grand Master of the
M. W. Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. M., of Florida. Born in Mecklenburg
county, Virginia, — 1825 ; died at Live Oak, Florida, May 9, 1904.

He was honored and respected not only in the comjnunity where he
lived, but by a large circle of friends and acquaintances throughout the
State. He served as clerk to the House of Representatives of Flordia for
about forty years. The illustrious Brother was a skillful physician, a life-
long and consistent Christian, a loving husband, a kind father, a good
and true citizen ; faithful to his country, and kind and charitable to his
fellow-men.

R. W. Bro. Warren Tyler, Junior Grand Warden of the M. W.
Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. M., of Florida. Born in Connecticut, August
4, 1861 ; died at Bartow, Florida, December 21, 1903.

He filled many positions of honor and usefulness in the community
in which he lived. His proficiency in the ritualistic work was early recog-
nized and appreciated by his Fellow Craftsmen.

M. W. Bro. Joseph Alvah Locke, Past Grand Master of the M. W.
Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. M., of Maine. Born in Hollis, York county,
Maine, December 25, 1843 ; died at Portland, Maine, Thursday, April
21, 1904.

To most of our brethren it would be sufficient to say that he was a
life-long friend, intimate acquaintance and protege of the late M. W. Bro.
Josiah H. Drummond. M. W. Bro. Locke was a man of upright and
Christian character, loyal and true to his convictions, yet courteous and
considerate in all respects. Of clear thought, excellent judgment, he gave
grace and dignity to every position. He was a true friend and brother.

"Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime
And, departing, leave behind us
Foot-prints on the sands of time."

MICHIGAN.

M. W. Bro. Arthur M. Clark, Past Grand Master of the M. W.
Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. M., of Michigan. Born at Landaff, New
Hampshire, August 4, 1833; died October 26, 1903.

He served his lodge as W. M. for a period of nineteen years, and the
M. W. Grand Lodge of Michigan as Grand Lecturer for a period of twenty-
He served his lodge as W. M. for a period of nineteen years, and the
among other things : "Everywhere he has sought to impress upon the Craft,

146 Proceedings of the ' [Oct. 5,

the thought that Masonry does not consist of ceremony only. Always court-
eous, kind, patient, loving his fellow-men, considerate, charitable, infused
with the basic principles of Freemasonry, he has, by precept and example,
infused into the great body of Masonry in this jurisdiction those qualities of
mind and heart which now are and shall ever, we trust, remain our in-
heritance.

By his kindness of heart, his genial ways and his affable address, he
made himself the personal friend of every Mason in this jurisdiction.

MONTANA.

M. W. Bro. Samuel 'Word, Past Grand Master of the M. W. Grand
Lodge, A. F. and A. M., of Montana. Born in Barboursville, Kentucky,
January 19, 1837; died at Helena, Montana, September 24, 1903.

M. W. Bro. Word made a codification of the Constitution, By-Laws
and Regulations of his Grand Lodge, and his work was so skillfully and
prudently done that it was unanimously approved and adopted by that
body.

"Beyond these chilly winds and gloomy skies,
Beyond Death's cloudy portal,
There is a land where beauty never dies,
Where Love becomes immortal."

NEBRASKA.

M. W. Bro. Rolland Hector Oakley, Past Grand Master of the
M. W. Grand Lodge of A. F. and A. M., of Nebraska. Born at Glenhein,
Delevan county, New York, February 5, 1841 ; died at Denver, Colorado,
February 2, 1904.

As a citizen his individuality and force of character brought him prom-
inence. He was a consistent Christian gentleman.

NEW JERSEY.

M. W. Bro. Charles Belcher, Past Grand Master of the M. W. Grand
Lodge, A. F. and A. M., of New Jersey, born — . died in Newark, New
Jersey, February 20, 1904.

He was a man of culture and ability, one who gave much thought to all
Masonic affairs ; he will be missed in the counsels of his brethren.

NOVA SCOTIA.

M. W. Bro. Lieut. Colonel Charles John Macdonald, Past Grand
Master of the M. W. Grand Lodge of Nova Scotia. Born at Halifax,
N. S., April 4, 1841 ; died at Halifax, October 12, 1903.

1904] Grand Lodge of Illinois. 147

M. W. Brcx Macdonald took an active and prominent part in the for-
mation of the Grand Lodge of Nova Scotia in 1866, and was its first Grand
Secretary.

M. W. Bro. S. Stacker Williams, Past Grand Master of the M. W.
Grand Lodge of Ohio. Born at Dover, Stewart county, Tennessee, March
20, 1836; died at Washington C. H., Ohio, April 3, 1904.

"The silver cord is loosed,

The wheel of life and golden bowl are broken,
The sunny days return no more ;

There comes through every avenue the token
That Death is knocking at the door."

SOUTH DAKOTA.

R. W. Bro. Charles Albert Fisher, Senior Grand Warden of the
M. W. Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. M., of the State of South Dakota.
Born in Greencastle, Putnam county, Indiana, June 13, i860; died in
Aberdeen, South Dakota, July 9, 1904.

Masonry especially appealed to Brother Fisher; he gave a great deal
of his time and talents to promote the welfare of the order, and his
energy, faithfulness and intelligence won many friends for him in all the
relations of life.

M. W. Bro. A. J. Rose, Past Grand Master of the M. W. Grand Lodge,
A. F. and A. M., of the State of Texas. Born — , died at Salado, Texas,
December 13, 1903.

Seventy-three years of age, he has served his country and his state in
all the trying periods of the past, at all times measuring up to the full
standard of the man.

"Human life
Is but a loan to be paid back with use,
When He shall call his debtors to account,
From whom are all our blessings."

VERMONT.

R. W. Bro. Myron J. Horton, Grand Junior Warden of the M. W.
Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. M., of Vermont. Born in Mount Holly, Ver-
mont, August 13, 1841 ; died January 7, 1904.

He was called to nearly all the important positions in his adopted
town, Poultney; in all matters of a public nature he enjoyed the full
confidence of his fellow-citizens.

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WISCONSIN.

M. W. Bro. Gabriel Bouck, Past Grand Master of the M. W. Grand
Lodge, A. F. and A. M., of Wisconsin. Born — , 1828; died at Oshkosh,
February 21, 1904.

"With wise intent,
The hand of nature, on peculiar minds,
Imprints a different bias."

M. W. Bro. Bouck was of commanding presence, of great intellectual
ability, a leader among men, a pillar of wisdom and the father of the
present Constitution of the M. W. Grand Lodge of Wisconsin. While
his busy brain and courageous heart are at rest, the impress of his labors
remains as a lasting testimony of work well performed in behalf of sym-
bolic Masonry.

WEST VIRGINIA.

M. W. Bro. William H. H. Flick, Past Grand Master of the M. W.
Grand Lodge of the State of West Virginia. Born in the State of Ohio
in 1842; died at Martinsburg, West Virginia, June 7, 1904.

He lived an upright life and left his impress upon his associates and
fellows. He was an able lawyer, an upright citizen and an enthusiastic
Mason.

"The tissue of the life to be

We weave in colors our own
And in the fields of destiny,
We reap as we have sown."

Kissed by the hot blasts of the desert, the rose of Jericho, immature
and undeveloped, withers and curls itself up into compact form, it is said,
then, torn from its moorings by the winds, is tossed and blown and carried
over hill and valley, over mountain and plain, and finally dropped into the
sea, where by the refreshing touch of the waters, it again unfolds and
blooms and ripens. The waves carry the ripened, water-laden seeds to
the shore where, caught up by the winds, they are scattered over desert,
mountain and plain, again to germinate and bloom on the scorching bosom
of the hostile soil, and thus to repeat the precarious experience of their an-
cestors. Many seeds and many plants indeed must be lost that few may
accomplish the purpose of their Creator and produce after their kind.
"As snowflakes, which wander toward the earth from the clouds, and after
floating hither and thither aimlessly a little while, fall at last upon Earth's
bosom and melt, even so are the transitory lives of men." When we see
youth with its promise and manhood in its strength, by accident or disease,
carried down into the dark valley of the shadow of Death, we sometimes
feel that Nature is lavish and prodigal with her resources, and that an un-
reasoning, fickle Chance controls and governs in this mundane sphere.

1904] Grand Lodge oj Illinois. 149

But whether we study the history of nations or the lives of individuals,
we must conclude, from the continuity of cause and effect, the relation of
event to event, that a Divine and all-seeing Providence over-rules and
guides the affairs of men to some unforseen but beneficent end and purpose.
Life and Death are alike the unsolved problems of philosophy, the unan-
swered inquiry of the ages.

"Amidst the hush of outward strife,
We almost hear the stream of life
And seek, alas ! in vain assay,
Its hidden fountain far away."

THIS JURISDICTION.

Our own jurisdiction is not without its bereavements. Heavily has
the hand of Death rested upon our brethren during the last Masonic year.
Ninety and seven of those who served their respective lodges in the capac-
ity of Worshipful Master, for periods ranging from thirty-three years to
the fraction of a year, some illustrious and eminent Craftsmen, and many,
many of the rank and file, who, like

"Full many a flower, born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air,"

have passed to the great Beyond, there to receive, we hope, "our Supreme
Grand Master's approbation."

Bro. John H. Anthony, W. M. for four years (1852, 3, 4, 5) of Wil-
liam C. Hobbs Lodge No. 306, died November 20, 1903.

Bro. William Enoch Bacon, W. M. for six years (1875, 6, 8, 9, 80, 81)
of Litchfield Lodge No. 517, died September 20, 1903.

Bro. Charles Banzet, W. M. for two years (1886, 7) of Somonauk
Lodge No. 646, died January 7, 1904.

Bro. A. H. C. Barber, W. M. for two years (1868, 9) of DeWitt Lodge
No. 84, died March 5, 1904.

Bro. Esquire Barnes, W. M. for one year (1878) of Manchester Lodge
No. 229, died November 3, 1903.

Bro. William T. Barton, W. M. for two years (1898, 1901) of Rock-
port Lodge No. 830, died August 8, 1903.

Bro. Hiram W. Beckwith, W. M. for one year (1863) of Olive
Branch Lodge No. 38, died December 22, 1903.

Bro. Francis S. Belden, W. M. for one year (1885) of Evans Lodge
No. 524, died January 7, 1904.

Bro. Thomas B. Bent, W. M. for one year (1900) of Garden City
Lodge No. 141, died December 28, 1903.

Bro. Charles A. Besore, W. M. for one year (1897) of Urbana
Lodge No. 157, died January 17, 1904.

150 Proceedings of the [Oct. 5,

Bro. Wiley N. Biggs, W. M. for one year (1875) of Basco Lodge No.
618, died January 31, 1904.

Bro. Charles W. Bishop, W. M. for two years (1901, 2) of Calumet
Lodge No. 716, died January 11, 1904.

Bro. Samuel H. Blane, W. M. for three years (1882, 91, 2) of Clin-
ton Lodge No. 19, died June 17, 1904.

Bro. Charles H. Brandenrurg, W. M. for one year of Eureka Lodge
No. 69, died November 26, 1903.

Bro. Harry L. Bunnell, W. M. for one year (1894) of Aurora
Lodge No. 254, died November 6, 1903.

Bro. Hiram Campbell, W. M. for one year (1868) of Clay Lodge
No. 153, died May 24, 1904.

Bro. John Campbell, W. M. for one year (1894) of Kensington
Lodge No. 804, died January 5, 1904.

Bro. Henry Cole, W. M. for four years (1885, 9) of Crete Lodge No.
763, died December 24, 1903.

Bro. Edwin J. Congar, W. M. for one year (1879) of Dunlap Lodge
No. 321, died April 26, 1904.

Bro. George W. Culver, W. M. for four years (1861, 2, 3, 8) of Meteor
Lodge No. 283, died August 8, 1903.

Bro. Ebenezer R. Danforth, W. M. for one year (1892) of Olive
Branch Lodge No. 38, died August 1, 1903.

Bro. Martin Eshelman, W. M. for one year (1891) of Bridgeport
Lodge No. 386, died May 5, 1904.

Bro. Emil Espen, W. M. for one year (1903) of Chicago Lodge No.
437, came to his death in that terrible and indescribable catastrophe, the
Iroquois Theatre fire, December 30, 1903. He lost his life in company
with a sister whom he dearly loved, and probably because he tried to
rescue her from the awful fate which overtook them both. Brother Espen
was still Worshipful Master of his lodge, as his successor was not to be
installed until the 4th of January, 1904, for which event extensive prepara-
tions had been made by him. His lodge had prepared to present him
with a magnificent Past Master's jewel on that occasion; but Providence
decreed otherwise, and it was presented to his bereaved family, father,
mother and two sisters, as a memorial and a slight token of the everlast-
ing esteem and regard of the brethren of his lodge.

"None knew him but to love him,
Nor named him but to praise."

Bro. L W. Framhein, W. M. for one year (1888) of Waldeck Lodge
No. 674, died May 11, 1904.

Bro. George O. Friedrich, W. M. for six years of George Washington
Lodge No. 222. died February 3, 1904.

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Bro. Wm. Judah Frisbee, W. M. for twelve years of T. J. Pickett
Lodge No. 307, died September 26, 1903.

Bro. Frank A. Frost, W. M. for three years (1895, 8, 9) of Shabbona
Lodge No. 374, died July 4, 1903.

Bro. John Harper Fulton, W. M. for one year (1889) of Robinson
Lodge No. 250, died April 7, 1904.

Bro. B. F. Furlong, W. M. for one year (1865) of Blazing Star
Lodge No. 458, died April 25, 1904.

Bro. John A. Gaar, W. M. for three years of Thomson Lodge No.
559, died June 18, 1904.

Bro. S. M. Gentry, W. M. for one year (1869) of Farina Lodge No.
601, died July 28, 1903.

Bro. W. A. Goodrich, W. M. for — years of Mound Lodge No. 122,
died March 21, .

Bro. Miles Austin Grafton, W. M. for two years of Lewistown
Lodge No. 104, died November 8, 1903.

Bro. Richard Johnson Gregson, W. M. for one year (1878) of J. L
Anderson Lodge No. 318, died January 15, 1904.

Bro. James E. Hardy, W. M. for one year (1883) of Ashlar Lodge
No. 308, died November 18, 1903.

Bro. Wm. Hartzell, W. M. for fifteen years, at intervals between
1867 and 1902, of Chester Lodge No. 72, died August 14, 1903.

Bro. Uriah M. Humble, W. M. for nineteen years of John D. Moody
Lodge No. 510, died February 9, 1904.

Bro. David M. Houghtlin, W. M. for three years (1890, 1, 2) of Jer-
seyville Lodge No. 394, died April 23, 1904.

Bro. John Igon, W. M. for seven years of La Moille Lodge No. 383,
died May 9, 1904.

Bro. Seth L. Jenkins, W. M. for — years of Rockton Lodge No. 74,
died January 24, 1904.

Bro. Marvin Luther Jackson, W. M. for one year (1899) of Oak
Park Lodge No. 540, died April 18, 1904.

Bro. Samuel G Jarvis, W. M. for eleven year of A. T. Darrah Lodge
No. 793, died January 4, 1904.

Bro. Richard A. Jeffery, W. M. for one year (1887) of Golden Rule
Lodge No. 726, died June 29, 1904.

Bro. Coit H. Kendall, W. M. for two years (1896, 7) of Lounsbury
Lodge No. 751, died February 21, 1904.

Bro. Louis Kistler, W. M. for one year (1868) of Evans Lodge No.
524, died May 27, 1904.

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[Oct. 5,

Bro. Almekon K. Knapp, W. M. for — years of Minooka Lodge
No. 528, died March 5, 1904.

Bro. John Kummer, W. M. for one year (1884) of Herder Lodge
No. 669, died November 30, 190,3.

Bro. Wm. H. Lathrop, W. M. for ten years, at intervals between 1886
and 1903, of Newton Lodge No. 216, died December 7, 1903.

Bro. Wm. T. Lewis, W. M. for one month (December 1875) of Buda
Lodge No. 399, died September 20, 1903.

Bro. R. L. Lindley, W. M. for one year (1884) of Harbor Lodge
No. 731, died April 29, 1904.

Bro. Joseph S. Livell, W. M. for one year (1895) of Oquawka Lodge
No. 123, died February 27, 1904.

Bro. Henry M. Lovell, W. M. for six years of Onarga Lodge No. 305,
died September 18, 1903.

Bro. Loton S. Manville, W. M. for one year (1901) of Amity Lodge
No. 472, died July 7, 1903.

Bro. Wm. Mason, W. M. for one year (1883) of Cedar Lodge No. 124,
died December 17, 1903.

Bro. Stillman Ellison Massey, W. M. for one year (1895) of Cedar
Lodge No. 124, died April 3, 1904.

Bro. Samuel Marshal, W. M. for four years (1894, 6, 8, 9) of Iola
Lodge No. 691, died July 4, 1903.

Bro. James K. P. McCullough, W. M. for three years (1884-7) °f
Tower Hill Lodge No. 493, died July 18, 1903.

Bro. R. L. McReynolds, W. M. for two years, (1899, 1900) of Rose-
ville Lodge No. 519, died August 3, 1903.

Bro. Robert W. Melin, W. M. for three years (1889, 1891, 1901) of
Annawan Lodge No. 433, died August 2, 1903.

Bro. Wm. H. Meyers, W. M. for one year (1900) of Versailles Lodge
No. 108, died February 14, 1904.

Bro. Wm. H. Miller, W. M. for one year (1900) of Horeb Lodge
No. 363, died January 18, 1904.

Bro. Wm. C. Morris, W. M. for two years (1886-7) of Onarga Lodge
No. 305, died October 16, 1903.

Bro. Frederick Myers, W. M. for one year (1893) of Charter Oak
Lodge No. 236, died October 26, 1903.

Bro. James Musser, W. M. for two years of Orangeville Lodge No.
687, died November 23, 1903.

Bro. Richard L. Organ, W. M. of Carmi Lodge No. 272, from Janu-
ary 1903, to the time of his death, died July 24, 1903.

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Bro. Fred S. Orton, W. M. for one year (1890) of Elgin Lodge No.
117, died February 12, 1904.

Bro. Hy. C. Peeck, W. M. for one year (1894) of Clay Lodge No. 153,
died February 15, 1904.

Bro. Josephus Pirke, W. M. for one year (1895) of Chenoa Lodge
No. 292, died January 10, 1904.

Bro. Henry Reed, W. M. for one year (1894) of Pleiades Lodge
No. 478, died November 1, 1903.

Bro. L. W. Reed, W. M. for one year (1887) of Central Lodge No. 71,
died March 6, 1904.

Bro. Wm. H. Reid, W. M. for one year (1887) of Apollo Lodge
No. 642, died June 1, 1904. Brother Reid was also a charter member of
Dearborn Lodge No. 310, and its W. M. for three years (1864, 5, 8).

Bro. Charles S. Richards, W. M. for one year (1888) of Bunker Hill
Lodge No. 151, died March 2, 1904.

Bro. George H. Sands, W. M. for five years (1869-74) of Chebanse
Lodge No. 429, died June 17, 1904.

Bro. George R. Schamp, W. M. for thirteen years (1884, 1896) of
Raven Lodge No. 303, died July n, 1903.

Bro. Arthur E. Schaffer, W. M. for one year (1891) of Plymouth
Lodge No. 286, died May 2, 1904.

Bro. Franklin B. Simpson, W. M. for one year of Fidelity Lodge
No. 152, died January 25, 1904.

Bro. Wm. Skelly, W. M. for one year (1900) of Lexington Lodge
No. 482, died October 23, 1903.

Bro. Frank Huxley Smith, W. M. for one year (1871) of Sycamore
Lodge No. 134, died November 23, 1903.

Bro. M. H. Smith, W. M. for seven years, at intervals between 1872
and 1903, of Manchester Lodge No. 229, died October 8, 1903.

Bro. George W. Staley, W. M. for thirty-three years of Kaskaskia
Lodge No. 86, died January 16, 1904.

This venerable Brother and active worker in the Masonic vineyard
was initiated May 11, 1841, passed August 14, 1841, and raised to the
Sublime degree of Master Mason on the 17th day of January, 1842, in
Western Star Lodge No. 107. He was a charter member of Kaskaskia
Lodge No. 86, and its first Worshipful Master. He lacked but one day of
being a Master Mason for sixty-two years.

Bro. Frank Stewart, W. M. for one year of Hibbard Lodge No. 249,
died July 7, 1903.

Bro. Matthias B. Sweegle, W. M. for six years (1S86, 93) of Fair-
view Lodge No. 350, died March 11, 1904.

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Bro. Seigel Delano Talcott, W. M. for two years (1891, 2) of Wau-
kegan Lodge No. 78, died December 29, 1903.

Bro. Jesse Taylor, W. M. of Vermont Lodge No. 116, at the time of
his death, which occurred October 2, 1903.

Bro. Sampson Taylor, W. M. for five years of S. D. Monroe Lodge
No. 447, died August 2, 1903.

Bro. Wm. F. Tenges, W. M. for four years of Eureka Lodge No. 69,
died April 29, 1904.

Bro. Jonas Thon, W. M. for one year (1877) of Clay Lodge No. 153,
died October 10, 1903.

Bro. Thomas Foster Tipton. Although he never served as Worship-
ful Master of his lodge, yet he was such a prominent figure in the com-
munity in which he resided and such a useful citizen to the State,- that
special mention should be made of him in this record. He was born in
Franklin county, Ohio, August 29, 1833, and began the practice of law in
Lexington, Blinois, in 185 1. He moved to Bloomington in 1862, and was
appointed State's Attorney in 1866 by Governor Oglesby. He was elected
Circuit Judge in 1870, served a term in the Forty-fifth Congress of the
United States, being elected in 1876, and was re-elected Circuit Judge in
1891, serving until 1897. He became a member of Wade-Barney Lodge
No. 512, being initiated September 13, 1894, passed September 12, 1895, and
raised to the Sublime Degree of Master Mason, January 25, .1896. He
passed to his reward February 7, 1904.

Bro. Lewis L. Wadsworth, W. M. for one year (1882) of Garden
City Lodge No. 141, died January 26, 1904.

Bro. John S. Walker, W. M. for — years of Alpha Lodge No. 155,
died April 5, 1904.

Bro. Edward A. Ward, W. M. for five years (1895, 99) of Horicon
Lodge No. 244, died February 15, 1904.

Bro. Daniel Westervelt, charter member of Home Lodge No. 508,
and its Worshipful Master for the year 1872, died February 27, 1904, aged
eighty-three years, six months.

Bro. David Martin Wieder, W. M. fer nine years, at intervals be-
tween 1869 and 1887, of Paris Lodge No. 268, died September 22, 1903.

Bro. James B. White, W. M. for one year (1873) of Morrisonville
Lodge No. 681, died July 28, 1903. £

Bro. Josiah W. Willis, W. M. for fifteen years, of Woodhull Lodge
No. 502, died December 13, 1903.

Bro. John S. Wolfe, W. M. for three years (1894-6) of Western
Star Lodge No. 240, died June 23, 1904.

Bro. Philo H. Zeigler, W. M. for two years (1877, 1880) of Bureau
Lodge No. 112, died February 19, 1904.

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While meditating on the record of these lives that have gone into
Eternity, there comes to our minds that memorable sonnet of the late
Hon. John J. Ingalls on

OPPORTUNITY.

"Master of human destiny am I !
Fame, love and fortune on my footsteps wait.
Cities and field I walk. I penetrate
Deserts and seas remote, and passing by
Hovel and mart and palace, soon or late,
I knock, unbidden, once at every gate.
If sleeping, wake ; if feasting, rise before
I turn away. It is the hour of fate,
And they who follow me reach every state
Mortals desire, and conquer every foe
Save death ; but those who doubt or hesitate,
Condemned to failure, penury and woe
Seek me in vain and uselessly implore,
I answer not and I return no more."

To these beloved dead we owe a debt of everlasting gratitude for the
example of their noble, courageous, helpful and generous lives. They have
shown that not all the good, the true is buried in the tomb of the misty
past. Their lives prove that the living present has its duties and respon-
sibilities, its rewards and hopes, no less renowned than any that ever fell
to the lot of hero dead ; that after all, life is worth the living if only
worthily lived. They left the world better than they found it. It remains
for us to improve upon their worthy example, if mankind is ultimately to
attain perfection.

"We may cling to this world of time and sense ;

We may think of another rarely;
We may sigh, "Ah, whither?" and ask, "Ah, whence?"
And find life puzzling fairly;
Yet, life is sweet,
We still repeat,
On this dear old earth we were born in ;
Good bettered to best,
Best changed into blest,
When we wake to God's cloudless next morning."

Elmer D. Brothers;
Frank W. Havill,
Sidney S. Breese,

Committee.

EEPOET— Illinois Masonic Orphans' Home.
Bro. George M. Moulton, P. G. M., presented the follow-
ing report from the Committee on Illinois Masonic Orphans'

156 Proceedings of the [Oct. 5,

Home, and on motion it was referred to the Finance Com-
mittee :

To the M. IV. Grand Master, Wardens and Brethren, of the M. W. Grand

Lodge, A. F. and A. M., Illinois.:

Your special committee, appointed by the M. W. Grand Master at the
session of the M. W. Grand Lodge, held October, 1903, to administer the
affairs of the Illinois Masonic Orphans' Home, submit the following report:

No change has been made from the methods heretofore employed in
conducting the affairs of the institution, and the careful and conservative
policy that marked the administrations of our predecessors has been stead-
ily adhered to during the year past.

We are pleased to report that the finances are in good condition, with
a portion of the appropriation for the year still unexpended; the buildings
and grounds are in excellent shape : the health of the inmates good, and
the institution, taken as a whole, compares favorably with the best of its
kind located in Chicago.

There has been no serious illness among the children and no deaths
have occurred during the year, a circumstance that attests more than words
can express the sanitary arrangements of the institution and the hygenic
conditions that prevail. We regret to report, however, that Bro. Lewis
W. Framhein, one of your trustees, died on May 8, 1904. For many years
he was a devoted friend of the Home, and his loss is deeply deplored.

The reports of the Treasurer, Secretary and Superintendent, which are
hereto appended and made a part of this report — together with that of
Ernest Reckitt, public accountant — will inform you of the details of man-
agement, and to them we respectfully invite your attention.

All expenditures have been made under the direction and supervision
of special committees of the board and all items have been examined and
checked monthly by the finance committee and afterwards approved by the
board.

Regular meetings of the board have been held each month at which
times the affairs of the month preceding have passed in review.

The number of inmates has been about up to the general average of
previous years but with a slight increase which tends to grow still larger
as the years go by.

Your Trustees feel that the institution is one of which the Masons of
Illinois may well feel proud, and that its past history, no less than the
promise for the future, is one of the most significant of the influences that
have been exerted by the beneficent spirit of Freemasonry in the great state
of Illinois.

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A number of your Trustees have been continually associated with the
enterprise from the time of its inception, now about twenty years, and have
seen it grow under the fostering care of the Craft from very humble
beginnings until it has reached its present magnificent proportions. We all
have taken a direct and personal interest in its management, and we now
surrender our trust with the feelings that the work upon which we have so
long labored will be continued in the same spirit by equally worthy hands ;
and we recommend that the sum of fifteen thousand ($15,000.00) dollars,
in addition to the unexpended balance now in the hands of your Trustees,
be appropriated to defray the general expenses for the ensuing year.

Fraternally,

Ludwig Wolff, President,

Thos. E. Miller, Vice-Pres.,

Geo. M. Moulton,

Geo. W. Warvelle,

Henry McCall,

Henry J. Evans,

H. M. Hoelscher,

Jno. J. Badenoch,

William Johnston,

A. M. Eddy,

Jno. C. Leppert,

C. S. Gurney, Secretary.

SECRETARY'S REPORT.

Chicago, September 30, 1904.
To the President and Board of Trustees, Illinois Masonic Orphans' Home.
Brethren :— Your Secretary herewith submits the Twentieth Annual
Report for the year ending September 30, 1904.

RECEIPTS.

M. W. Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. M., Illinois'

appropriation $16,000 00

Membership account 10 00

General fund, sundry sources 208 00

Maintenance account 1,096 00

Interest on deposits, Treasurer 151 30

Refund on bill 7 10 $17472 40

Trust fund, summer outings for children $ 132 20

Amount remaining after charge to Grand Lodge. . . . 109 02 241 22

Total receipts of year $T7>7r3 62

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DISBURSEMENTS.

Furnishings $ 286 86

Clothing 1,686 78

Provisions 5J73 14

Fuel 2,109 32

Gas 391 80

Salaries —

Superintendent and matron $600 00

Physician 300 00

Secretary 300 00 1,200 00

LABOR.

Paid for nurses, cooks, laundresses and servants... 2,615 00

Repairs 455 06

Superintendents sundry expenditures, per vouchers 106 89

Printing, stationery and postage 12250

Medical account, medicines 53 26

Sundry supplies, not included in furnishings 450 43

Contingent expenditures 143 00

School account 143 42

Insurance account 144 00 15,081 46

Superintendent's balance, Oct. 1, 1903 $29414

Superintendent's balance, Oct. 1, 1904 22 53 271 61

Total expenditures $14,809 85

RECAPITULATION.

Total receipts $I77T3 62

Total expenditures 14,809 85

Treasurer's balance, September 30, 1904 2,903 77

C. S. Gurney,
Secretary.

REPORT OF THE TREASURER.

Chicago, October 1, 1904.

To tlic President and Board of Trustees, Illinois Masonic Orphans' Home,

Chicago, III.:

Gentlemen : — Your Treasurer begs leave to make his report for the
year ended September 30, 1904, as follows : —

receipts.

Cash on hand October 1, 1903 $ 241 22

Received from C. S. Gurney, Secretary, together with
interest on deposits in Illinois Trust & Savings
Bank 17472 40

$17,713 62

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Grand Lodge of Illinois.

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DISBURSEMENTS.

On Secretary's warrants Nos. 3295 to 3626, both in-
clusive $14,809 85

Balance on hand, Sept. 30, 1904 $2,903 77

Fraternally,

John C. Smith,

Treasurer.

REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT.

Chicago, III., October 1, 1904.
To the President and Board of Trustees of the Illinois Masonic Orphans

Home:

Gentlemen : — I herewith submit my Annual Report for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 1904. The Home contained the following :

NAME. ADMITTED. AGE,

Hanly, Clarence May 18,1892.... 3

Jamerson. Ivanhoe Aug. 23,1893 — 6

Albrecht, Hattie May 15,1894.... 8

Albrecht, Annie E " 15, " .... 6

Albrecht. Lillian E " 15, " ....4

Mackie, Jessie E Sept. 19, " — 6

Englehart, Emma April24, 1896.... 3

Pederson, Roy Feb. 27,1897.... 8

Pederson, William " 27, " — 6

Graham, Letitia Aug. 13, " — 7

Graham.ElvaJ " 13, •' ....6

Taggert, Margaret Oct. 15, " — 11

Taggert, Madge " 15, " — 8

Deuter, Arthur F Dec. 7, " .... 8

Deuter, Albert J " 7, " — 7

Deuter, Eva V " 7, " ....5

Mackie, Alexander " 16, " — 5

Fisher, Sarah M Mar. 10, 1898. ..11

French, Ralph April 6, " — 8

French, Adlai " 6, " .... 6

French Bell Mar. 12,1899.... 6

Conrey, Julius A Aug. 31, " — 11

Conrey, Juliett E " 31, " ....7

Conrey, Louisa A " 31, " — 5

Ledger, MaryC Mar. 5, 1900. ...11

Krohn, Leon J " 17, " — 12

Krohn, Bessie " 17, " — 10

Krohn, Loyal " 17, " ....7

Hayes. Harold L April 17, " ....10

French, Chester " 25, " 4

Spikings, Charles W May 1, " 10

Fou^t, Hazel V Aug. 27, " — 4

Forbes, Ethel L Sept. 3, " ....9

Olson, Norman A *■ 8, '• — 11

Olson, Herbert A " 8, " .... 5

Wells, Lola B Oct. 15, " ....13

Mackie, George Nov. 14, " — 5

Thompson, Clarence — Dec. 8, " 12

Konzouris, Penelope " 10, " — 12

Rave, ErwinT Jan. 15, 1901 — 9

Rave.JennieL " 15. " — 8

Rave, Lillian W " 15, " .... 6

Fulton, Emma P Mar. 18, " 12

Fulton. Earl A " 18. " ....10

Kernahan, George T.... May 10, " ....10

PRESENT

AGE. LODGE NO. LOCATION.

14 Cleveland 211, Chicago

16 Jeffersonville 460, Jeffersonville.

17 Waldeck 674, Chicago .
16 Waldeck 674, Chicago .
14 Waldeck 674, Chicago.

16 Arcana 717, Chicago.

11 Lake View 774, Chicago.
14 Dearborn 310, Chicago.

12 Dearborn 310, Chicago.

13 T. J. Turner 407, Chicago.

12 T. J. Turner 407. Chicago.

17 Temple 46, Peoria.

14 Temple 46, Peoria.

14 Englewood 690, Englewood.

13 Englewood 690, Englewood.
11 Englewood 690, Englewood.
11 Arcana 717, Chicago.

17 Lincoln Park 611, Chicago.

13 Blair 393. Chicago.

11 Blair 393, Chicago.
10 Blair 393, Chicago.

15 Springfield 4, Springfield.

12 Springfield 4, Springfield.

10 Springfield 4, Springfield.

14 Covenant 526, Chicago.

15 Excelsior 97, Freeport.

13 Excelsior 97, Freeport.

11 Excelsior 97, Freeport.
13 Covenant 526, Chicago.

7 Blair 393, Chicago.

13 Dearborn 310, Chicago.

7 Yorktown 655, Tampico.
11 Keystone 639, Chicago.

14 Covenant 526, Chicago.

8 Covenant 526, Chicago.

16 J. L. Anderson 318, Augusta.
Arcana 717, Chicago.
Park 843, Chicago.
Kilwinning 311, Chicago.
Humboldt Park 813, Chicago.
Humboldt Park 813, Chicago.
Humboldt Park 813, Chicago.
At wood 651, Atwood.
Atwood651, Atwood.
Ashlar 308, Chicago.

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NAME. ADMITT

Kernahan, Florence " 10,

Kernahan, Carolyn " 10,

Brimrick, Elsie Mann.. June 6,

(Ir.iham. James Sept. 23,

Kernahan, Wm John. ..Nov. 1,

Seabrook, Lucy B Dec. 21,

Seabrook, Arthur J " 21,

Seabrook, Helen L " 21,

Seabrook. Florence " 21,

Seabrook, Howard " 21,

Bruokman. Mary A Jan. 11,

Brooktnan, William R.. " 11,

Brookman, Lillian M " 11,

Brookman. Virginia A.. " 11,

Stramm, John Dec. 22,

Bensing, Frederick Nov. 22,

Bensing, Alice M " 22,

Mandelbaum, Irving W.Dec. 18,
Mandelbaum, Lester P. " 18,

Park* Gordon Jan. 29,

Parks, Grace " 29,

Parks, Hazel " 29,

O'Brien, James Feb. 14,

McDaniel, Amy E " 24,

McDaniel, Lee J " 24,

McDaniel, Elsie A " 24,

McDaniel. OrvalG Feb. 24,

Yager, Harry L Mar. 28,

Liridgren, Elmer April 1,

Lindgren. Chester July 29,

Lane, Brice A " 29,

Lane, Gladys B " 29,

Lane, James " 29,

Shaw, Prescott B Sept. 15,

Shaw, Robert E " 15,

Seabrook. Alice M " 15,

Colie. Earl " 21,

Follett, Sarah E " 23,

Follett, M. Hazel " 23,

Follett, Catherine " 23,

mo -i

1903

PRESENT

.GE. AGE. LODGE NO. LOCATION.

. 7 10 Ashlar 308, Chicago.

.6 9 Ashlar 308, Chicago.

.9 11 Cedar 124, Morris

.6 8 Thos. J. Turner 409, Chicago.

. 3 6 Ashlar 308, Chicago.

.11 13 Berwyn 839, Berwyn.

.10 12 Berwyn 839, Berwyn.

. 7 9 Rerwvn 839, lii-rwyn.

. 5 8 Berwyn 839, Berwyn.

. 4 6 Berwyn 839, Berwyn.

.10 11 Garfield 686, Chicago.

. 7 8 Garfield 686, Chicago.

. 4 6 Garfield 686. Chicago.

. 3 5 Garfield 686, Chicago.

.11 12 Arcana 717, Chicago.

.13 14 Ravenswood777, Ravenswood.

.12 13 Ravenswood 777, Ravenswood.

.11 12 Oriental 33, Chicago.

.9 10 Oriental 33, Chicago.

.13 14 Mizpah 768, Chicago.

.10 11 Mizpah 768, Chicago.

. 8 9 Mizpah 768, Ch cago.

.11 12 Golden Rule 762, Chicago.

14 15 Walnut 722, Walnut.

,10 11 Walnut 722, Walnut.

.11 12 Walnut 722, Walnut.

.6 7 Walnut 722, Walnut.

. 9 10 LaHarpe 195, LaHarpe.

.8 9 Mystic Star 778, Chicago.

. 6 7 Mystic Star 778, Chicago.

.10 11 E. F. W. Ellis 633, Rockford.

.5 6 E. F.W. Ellis 633, Rockford.

.7 8 E. F. W. Ellis 633, Rockford

. 2 10 Hesperia 411, Chicago.

. 5 6 Hesperia 411, Chicago.

. 3 4 Berwyn 839, Berwyn.

.13 14 Dundee 190, Dundee.

.12 13 Hesperia 411, Chicago.

.10 11 Hesperia 411, Chicago.

. 6 7 Hesperia 411, Chicago.

In addition to the foregoing there have been received during the year :

NAME. ADMITTED.

Gardner, Mamie Oct. 26, 1903

Brookman, John F.,. . .. Dec. 17, "

Kemp, Richard April 1, 1904

Kemp, Edward " 1. "

Colie, Catherine May 8, •'

Swinbank, M June 1, "

Swinbank, Eugene F '• 1, "

Jurgenson, Arthur E " 14, "

Jurgenson, Martin " 14, "

Olson. Charles F Aug. 12, "

Olson, Maud " 12, "

Olson, Loretta " 12, "

PRESENT
AGE. AGE

..13
■ • 2%

..10

. . 7
..11
..12
..11
.. 9
.. 8
..11
.. 9
.. 3

LODGE NO. LOCATION.

Dongola518, Dongola.
Garfield 686. Chicago.
Oak Park 45, Oak Park.
Oak Park 45, Oak Park.
Dundee 190, Dundee.
Matterson 175, Joliet.
Matterson 175. Joliet
Wright's Grove 779, Chicago.
Wright's Grove 779, Chicago.
Kenwood 800. Ken wood.
Kenwood 800, Kenwood.
Kenwood 800, Kenwood.

DISCHARGED.

During the year the following were discharged from the Home :

Mackie, Jessie E Age 16 Discharged December 17, 1903

January 6,1904-
January 26,
March 12,
April 4,

June 9,

9,c'
18,

Tagg'Tt, Margaret.
Thompson, Clare ce.
Spikiugs, Charles W.

Olson. Norman A

Conrey, Julius A

Albrecht. Hattie

Fisher, Sarah M

Pederson, Rov

Pederson, William. . .
Jamerson, Ivanhoe..
Forbes, Ethel L

25,
25!

28,
2,

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RECAPITULATION.

Beneficiaries in the Home October 1, 1903 83

Beneficiaries received during the year 12

Total 95

Beneficiaries discharged 13

Beneficiaries in the Home September 30, 1904 82

The year has rolled away so quickly, and the reasons are, we have all
enjoyed a happy year. The members of the Home family have generally
enjoyed the best of health, only Elizabeth Brimrick is under Dr. Sweet's
watchful care, and Lola Wells and Constance Ledger under Dr. Wallace
Blanchard's care, and they are doing well and are able to help themselves.

Dr. C. B. Plattenburg has attended to those who needed his care of the
teeth, and Dr. L. A. L. Day, to the eyes and ears.

All the children of school age have been regular attendants at the
Emerson school, and bring home excellent reports.

Ethel Forbes graduated June 29th, and received the first Foster dip-
loma. All the children attend the Ada street Methodist church and Sab-
bath school.

A large number went out to enjoy their vacation with relatives and
friends ; all came home in good health ; those that remained at home all
summer vacation have had a happy time also, going to the parks. Dear-
born Lodge No. 310 invited and entertained the children at their picnic
at Momence, 111. York Chapter No. 148 invited and entertained the
children at their picnic at Northwestern Park, Desplaines River. Queen
Esther Chapter No. 41, O. E. S., invited the children to their children's
party, and each one came home with a box of sweets. The children have
also enjoyed going on the steamer Eastland to South Haven, Michigan,
when they were entertained with a dinner and had the privilege of helping
themselves in the orchard, by Mr. and Mrs. Herbert N. Snell, and also a
picnic at Highland Park. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Smith remembered the
children and invited them to their reception to the Masonic Veterans, our
children taking part in the singing.

Christmas brought the happiest time of the year, with Old Santa
Claus loaded with gifts and good cheer for all.

We have been remembered with a few donations at the Home, as
follows :

Books and papers from Mrs. Dr. D. Seibert.

Magazines and illustrated papers from John H. Johnson.

Theodosia Chapter No. 182, $10 to be spent for Christmas.

Books and papers from Mrs. Farley.

Books and papers from Mr. C. Lichtenberger.

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One barrel of apples from E. Reub.
One box of oranges from Arnold Bros.
One crate of pineapples from a friend.
Books from Geo. W. Warvelle.
One Brussels rug from C. B. Plattenburg.

One picture of the Home children from York Chapter No. 148.
Seventy-five boxes of candy from Illinois Chapter No. 483, O. E. S.
Five dollars to be spent for the Conrey children from Springfield
Lodge No. 4.

One box oranges from Geo. Duddleston.

The Masonic Home Journal from Louisville, Ky. ; the Signet of the
Order of the Eastern Star; the Illinois Freemason.
Large box of cakes from Mrs. F. O. Christensen.
Baseball, bat and gloves from Dearborn Lodge No. 310.
Flowers from Mrs. J. Balz, of Waukegan.
Flowers from Mrs. May Englehart, of Irving Park.
Books and papers from Mrs. Deluce.
Books and papers from Mrs. Smith.

Thanking you for the courtesies extended to my wife and self during
the past year,

Most respectfully submitted,

John G. Stebbins,

Superintendent.

REPORT OF EXPERT ACCOUNTANTS.

Chicago., October 3, 1904.
To the President and Board of Trustees, Illinois Masonic Orphans' Home,
Chicago, III.:

Gentlemen : — Tn accordance with your instructions we have made a
thorough examination of the books of account and vouchers of the Home
for the year ending September 30, 1904, and herewith submit our report
thereon accompanied by the following schedules :

Schedule "A." Statement of cash receipts and disbursements for the
year ended September 30, 1904.

Schedule "B." Details of receipts for board.

Schedule "C." Details of pay roll account.

All cash receipts as shown by the Secretary's cash book and detailed
in Schedules "A" and "B" herewith were duly deposited to the credit of
the Treasurer's account. We found properly approved vouchers on file

1904 J Grand Lodge of Illinois. . 163

covering all disbursements as shown in Schedule "A" of this report, sup-
plemented by Schedule "C."

It gives us great pleasure to state that the main records were neatly
and accurately kept by the Secretary.

Respectfully submitted,

Wilkinson, Reckitt, Williams & Co.

SCHEDULE "A."

Statement of cash receipts and disbursements for the year ended Sep-
tember 30, 1904.

RECEIPTS.

Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. M. 111. appropriation. .. .$16,000 00

Maintenance account, (see Schedule "B") 1,096 00

General fund, sundry sources 208 00

Interest on bank deposits 151 30

Life memberships 10 00

Refund on bill 7 10

Total receipts $17,472 40

Balance, Oct. 1, 1903, with Treasurer 241 22

Balance, Oct. 1, 1903, with Superintendent, 294 14 535 36

$18,007 76

DISBURSEMENTS.

Provisions $5J73 14

Labor, (see Schedule "C") 2,615 00

Fuel 2,109 32

Clothing 1,686 78

Salaries : — 'Superintendent and matron, $600.00; physi-
cian, $300.00 ; secretary, $300.00 1,200 00

Repairs 45506

Sundry supplies 450 43

Gas 391 80

Furnishings 286 86

Insurance 144 00

School account 143 42

Contingent expenses 143 00

Printing, stationery and postage 122 50

Superintendent's sundries 106 89

Medical 53 26

$15,081 46

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Balance, Sept. 30, 1904, Treasurer $2,903 77

Balance, Sept. 30, 1904, Superintendent 22 53

■ 2,926 30

• $18,007 /6

The above Treasurer's balance agrees with the balance shown by the
statement rendered by the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank.

SCHEDULE "B."
DETAILS OF RECEIPTS FOR BOARD.

Krohn children $288 00

Olson children 210 00

Brookman children 150 00

Pederson children 144 00

Kent children 120 00

Gardner children 108 00

Denter children 36 00

Spiking children 30 00

Seabrook children 10 00

$1,096 00

SCHEDULE "C."
DETAILS OF PAY ROLL ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, I9O4.

Miss Inga Halvorsen, night watch $322 00

Miss Minnie Week, housework $189 00

Miss Idell M. Smith, housework 240 00 429 00

Miss Wilma Naden, laundress 197 00

Miss Nellie Stack, laundress 161 00

Miss Jennie Sorenson, laundress 140 00

Miss Jacobine Hansen, laundress 140 00

Miss Tekla Bengston, laundress 125 00

Miss Olga Stange, laundress 80 00

Miss Annie Sorgerson, laundress 43 50 886 50

Miss Florence L. Marks, seamstress 235 50

Miss Hattie Albrecht, seamstress 72 00

Mrs. J. Woodman, seamstress 129 00 436 50

Miss Rachel Anderson, cleaning 263 00

Miss Annie Hansen, cleaning 146 00 409 00

Miss Mabel Samson and Miss Florence Samson 100 00

Sundries, hauling ashes, etc 32 00

$2,615 00

THOMAS J. TURNER

Elected M.W. Grand Master 1863—1864

1904] Grand Lodge of Illinois. 165

AMENDMENT— To Grand Lodge By-Laws. Adopted.

Bro. R. T. Spencer called up the following amendment to

M. W. Grand Lodge By-Laws, proposed last year, and moved

its adoption. Carried.

Amend Sec. 4, Art. 23, of Part Second, of the M. W. Grand Lodge
By-Laws, by adding the following:

"Provided, That no lodge shall be named after any living person."

As amended the section reads as follows :

As amended the section reads as follows :

"Section 4. Every petition for a new lodge shall set forth the proposed
name thereof; the names of the brethren nominated for the first Master
and Wardens ; the name of the county and place of the proposed location ;
the population of such place ; the time of holding the meetings ; the num-
ber and location of the three nearest lodges, and the distance of each from
the location of the proposed new lodge : Provided, That no lodge shall be
named after any living person."

SPECIAL EEPOET— Committee on Lodges U. D.
Bro. Daniel J. Avery, from the Committee on Lodges
U. D., presented the following special report, and on motion it
was adopted :
M. W. Grand Master and Brethren of the M. W . Grand Lodge:

After listening to the reports of the Committee on Lodges U. D., you
are probably aware that there have been many imperfections in the work
and returns of some lodges working U. D. ; in order the better to inform
the brethren interested in the proposed new lodges, your committee
thought it advisable to prepare a new circular of instruction, and to call
the attention of the Worshipful Master of the newly instituted lodge to
his duties and responsibilities. With the sanction of the M. W. Grand
Master, your committee have prepared such, which we ask the M. W.
Grand Lodge to endorse that it may be printed by the R. W. Grand Secre-
tary and issued in that connection. The letter we propose to have sent to
the newly appointed W. M. reads as follows :

To appointed Worshipful Master of

Lodge, Under Dispensation :

Dear Sir and Brother: — You have been appointed by the M. W.
Grand Master to rule and govern this lodge while working under dispen-

166 Proceedings of the [Oct. 5,

iation, and in accepting the apointment you have assumed duties of great
responsibility. Your ability to open and close a lodge and to confer the
degrees of E. A., F. C. and M. M. has been satisfactorily proven to the
.M. W. Grand Master, and while these matters are very important there
are others equally so, and you, as Worshipful Master, are held directly
and primarily responsible, not only for the proper discharge of your own
duties but also for that of all the other officers of your lodge, especially
the Secretary, who, as in chartered lodges, should observe your will and
pleasure and you should see to it that he properly records the proceedings
of the lodge proper to be written.

You should study the constitution and by-laws of the M. W. Grand
Lodge and especially Articles 4, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18 and 23, part 2, of
said by-laws, which govern the general management of the business of
your lodge as well as in the reception of petitions, appointment and report
of committees thereon, and the matters pertaining thereto which must as
well as those which must not be made matters of record.

Immediately after your lodge is instituted and before any other busi-
ness, such as the reception of petitions, etc., is submitted or transacted,
you should see that your lodge adopts a code of by-laws, an outline of
which, approved by the M. W. Grand Lodge, is herewith furnished.

You are also furnished with a circular of instructions, which you
should carefully study and which you will find it convenient to have at
all times with you in the lodge. You should cause these to be frequently
read in open lodge that the brethren may be informed of the limited pow-
ers of a lodge under dispensation. Yours fraternally,

Committee on Lodges Under Dispensation.

circular of instruction.

To the Worshipful Master, Wardens and Brethren of Lodges Under Dis-
pensation:

Your attention is called to the following instruction for the govern-
ment of your lodge while working under dispensation, and should be read
in open lodge.

1. A lodge under dispensation is in fact but a committee appointed by
the M. W. Grand Master for the purposes set forth in his letter of dispen-
sation.

2. Membership in a lodge under dispensation can be acquired only by
being named in the dispensation, or by initiation, passing, and raising in
said lodge.

3. A lodge under dispensation cannot grant a dimit.

4. A lodge under dispensation can neither try nor discipline a brother.

1904] Grand Lodge of Illinois. 167

5. A lodge under dispensation cannot borrow money, or incur debts
on the faith of the lodge.

6. A lodge under dispensation cannot install officers.

7. A lodge under dispensation can have no seal.

8. The fees cannot be less than twenty-five dollars for the three de-
grees, which shall, by the By-Laws of the lodge, be apportioned to the
three degrees, as the lodge may determine (See Section No. 2, Article 5,
of proposed By-Laws of your lodge) and must in all cases be paid before
the degree is conferred ; provided that in lodges in the city of Chicago,
the minimum fee for the three degrees shall be fifty dollars.

9. Examination for advancement must be made in open lodge while at
labor on the degree in which the candidate is examined. After the exam-
ination the candidate who has been examined, and all others who have
not attained to a higher degree, must retire before the lodge is opened, or
has resumed labor on a higher degree, and the minutes of the lodge must
show these facts.

10. In the matter of territory, the jurisdiction of a lodge under dis-
pensation, is the same as that of a chartered lodge.

11. The records should be plainly written, and as briefly as a clear
and concise statement of the proceedings will permit. It is recommended
that no printed form of minutes be used by lodges working under dispen-
sation.

12. Returns must be sent to the R. W. Grand Secretary by September
1st, and no communication can legally be held or work done on or after
that date. The names of charter members should be written in full.

13. A competent and careful brother who writes a plain hand should
be elected secretary, as much depends upon the manner in which that offi-
cer performs his duty.

14. Read carefully the Grand Lodge By-Laws and be governed thereby.

15. The enclosed code of By-Laws, approved by the M. W. Grand
Lodge, is recommended for your adoption.

16. The By-Laws adopted by your lodge must be recorded in full in
the minutes of the meeting at which they are adopted.

17. No brother from another grand jurisdiction can sign a petition for
a charter for a new lodge, unless he accompanies said petition with his
dimit, or other evidence, that he has severed his connection with his lodge.

18. Every brother of a chartered lodge in Illinois, joining in a peti-
tion for a charter for a new lodge, shall file with the petition, a receipt in

168 Proceed in (/s of the [Oct. 5,

full for all dues to the lodge of which he is a member to the date when
the new charter is expected to be granted. A dimitted Mason joining in a
petition for a charter must file his dimit with the petition.

19. It is illegal to confer more than seven degrees on any one day.

20. Do not transact any business at a special communication, except
conferring degrees, and the examination of candidates.

21. Do not designate your communications as "Regular," but call
them "Stated" or "Special," as the case may be.

22. Do not fail to have all visiting brethren record their names, with
the name, number, and location of their respective lodges.

25. You must not receive petitions for affiliation from any member of
the fraternity.

24. In recording reports of committees on petitions for the degrees,
simply state that the Worshipful Master announced the nature of and
the degree of unanimity in the report of the committee, that the ballot was
spread, and the candidate "Elected" or "Rejected" — as the case may be.

25. When there are more candidates than one, state in your minutes
that they were "Separately prepared, introduced," and "initiated," "passed,"
or "raised," as the case may be.

26. The particulars of all bills allowed by the lodge should be re-
corded in the minutes, and the orders for the payment thereof must be
signed by the Master and Secretary.

27. All sums of money paid into the hands of the Secretary, either at
the time of a communication, or between communications, should be re-
corded by him with the proceedings at the close of the same, and read at
the time he reads the minutes.

28. A waiver of jurisdiction can be requested only by a vote of the
lodge at a stated communication.

29. When a petition for the degrees is received by the lodge, be par-
ticular to record it, giving the age, residence, and occupation of the peti-
tioner, the names of the brethren recommending it, and those appointed as
the investigating committee.

30. Do not attempt to confer more degrees than you can complete in
full the same day, including the lecture, and charge, bearing in mind that
the M. W. Grand Lodge does not permit any short form of work, or of
the opening and closing ceremonies.

31. Do not allow any person to sign your application for a charter
except those named in your dispensation, or Master Masons who have been
made in your lodge.

1904] Grand Lodge of Tllinois. 169

32. Remember that a strict compliance with the laws of the M. W.
Grand Lodge is necessary to insure your lodge receiving a charter.

Fraternally submitted,

Daniel J. Avery,
H. C. Mitchell,
John Johnston,
Roswell T. Spencer,
I. H. Todd.

ELECTION OP 0FFI0EKS.
The M. W. Grand Master announced that the R. W. Dis-
trict Deputy Grand Masters would act as distributing and col-
lecting tellers, and the following brethren as counting tellers :

C. M. Forman, W. H. Peak, Wm. S. Cantrell, C. W. Morrell, H. W.
Berks, Daniel J Avery.

The tellers having collected and counted the several ballots,

reported that the following named brethren had received a

majority of all the votes cast :

Wm. B. Wright, M. W. Grand Master.
Chester E. Allen, R. W. Deputy Grand Master.
Alexander H. Bell, R. W. Senior Grand Warden.
A. B. Ashley, R. W. Junior Grand Warden.
Leroy A. Goddard, R. W. Grand Treasurer.
J. H. C. Dill, R. W. Grand Secretary.

AMENDMENTS— To Grand Lodge By-Laws —Proposed.
The following amendments were offered to the Report of
the Committee on Revision of M. W. Grand Lodge By-laws,
and they being seconded by the representatives of twenty
lodges, lie over until next year.

By Bro. Ralph H. Wheeler :

Amend Section 1, Article 15, Part 1, by striking out the words
"five ex-ofhcio, and six" and inserting in lieu tviereof the word "nine," also
striking out the word "two" and inserting therefor "three" and striking
out the words "Deputy Grand Master, Grand Wardens and Grand Secre-
tary."

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When amended the same shall read as follow-:

"Sectiox i. The supervision and management of the Masonic Homes
established or controlled by the M. W. Grand Lodge shall be vested in a
Board of Trustees consisting of nine appointive members, each of whom
shall be a member of some constituent lodge in Illinois. The terms of
office of the members shall be for three years or until their successors have
been duly appointed and qualified. The M. W. Grand Master is empow-
ered to appoint as members of this board three Trustees each year, im-
mediately after his election and installation to ofhce. and the Grand Mas-
ter shall be ex-oMcio a member of the Board. The Board may effect its
own organization, and administer its affairs by such sub-commitees, and
by the adoption of such rules and regulations as are not inconsistent with
the M. W. Grand Lodge by-laws, subject at all times to the approval of
the M. W. Grand Master or M. W. Grand Lodge."

By Bro. C. M. Forman :

Amend Section 2, Article 8, Part I. of Grand Lodge by-laws by adding
thereto the following words :

"For actual expenses incurred in the performance of official duty
whether delegated to him by the M. W. Grand Master, or in response to
official invitations from lodges to visit the same, shall, upon the presenta-
tion of bills duly itemized and audited, be reimbursed from the treasury
of the M. W. Grand Lodge."

CALLED OFF.

At 1 1 :55 o'clock a. m. the M. \Y. Grand Lodge was called
from labor to refreshment until 9 o'clock Thursday morning

1904] Grand Lodge of Illinois. 171

THIRD DAY.

Thursday, October 6, A. L. 5904. )
9:30 o'clock, a. m. \

The M. W. Grand Lodge was called from refreshment to
labor by the M. W. Grand Master.

Grand Officers and Representatives same as yesterday.

KEPOKT— Committee on Finance.

Bro. George M. Moulton, chairman of the Committee on
Finance, presented the following report. On motion it was
adopted :

To the M. IV. Grand Lodge of Illinois, A. F. and A. Masons:

Your Committee on Finance respectfully report that they have exam-
ined the books and accounts of the R.W. Grand Treasurer, and the R.W.
Grand Secretary, also the returns from lodges for last fiscal year, and have
carefully compared same with reports of the officers as presented.

We find that all monies due the M.W. Grand Lodge have been re-
ceived by the R. W. Grand Secretary, properly entered of record and duly
paid over to the R. W. Grand Treasurer.

We find that the R. W. Grand Treasurer has duly received the afore-
said funds, accounted for same properly, and that he is in possession of
the cash funds and securities as enumerated in his report, of which the fol-
lowing is a synopsis :

GENERAL FUND.

Cash balance on hand last report, October 5, 1903 $44,544 01

Cash received during year from R. W. Grand Secretary 42>T33 60

Total cash in hand during year $86,677 61

From which was paid on lawful orders. $19,175 00

On account of mileage and per diem 344°9 J4

On account of miscellaneous items 33>°93 47

Leaving cash balance on hand $86,677 61

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CHARITY FUND.

Cash balance on hand last report, October 5, 1903 $25,520 09

Cash received during year from R. W. Grand Secretary 25,315 95

Total cash in hand during year $48,836 04

From which was paid on lawful orders $17,434 00

Leaving cash balance on hand 31,402 04

$48,836 04

ILLINOIS MASONIC ORPHANS* HOME FUND.

Cash received during year from R. W. Grand Secretary $16,938 00

Invested during year 15,000 00

Leaving cash balance on hand $ 1,938 00

HOME FOR THE AGED FUND.

Cash received during year from R. W. Grand Secretary $418 00

Leaving cash balance on hand 418 00

Making total cash in hand of the R. W. Grand Treasurer at this

date in all funds of $66,851 51

We have examined the bonds and securities held by the R. W. Grand
Treasurer as the property of the M. W. Grand Lodge which are fully listed
and described in his report, and find same correct in every particular. The
total amount of invested funds in the respective funds is summarized as
follows :

In General Fund $26,000

In Charity Fund 1,800

In Illinois Masonic Orphans' Home Fund 49,000

In Home for the Aged Fund 8,800

Total amount of invested funds $85,800

The report of the R. W. Grand Secretary shows the total cash receipts
from all sources to have been $84,805.55, apportioned to the respective funds
as follows :

General Fund $42,133 60

Charity Fund 25,315 95

Illinois Masonic Orphans' Home Fund 16,938 00

Home for the Aged Fund 418

$84,805 55

All of which has been paid to the R. W. Grand Treasurer promptly
each month as received.

1904] Grand Lodge of Illinois. 173

Your committee last June made the usual annual inspection of the
books and accounts of the R. W. Grand Secretary at his office in Bloom-
ington, and take pleasure in certifying to the thorough and accurate manner
in which the details of that office are conducted, and have no hesitancy in
stating that the official transactions and records of this officer and also
those of the R. W. Grand Treasurer merit the commendation, and will re-
ceive the approbation of the M. W. Grand Lodge.

Your committee recommend that additional investment of $2,000 be
made in interest bearing securities approved by the Finance Committee
from the cash on hand in the Illinois Masonic Orphans' Home Fund as
soon as the cash balance in that fund is sufficient for the purpose and that
$500 be similarly invested from the cash on hand in the Home for the Aged
Fund, when the cash balance in that fund is sufficient for the purpose.

Your committee recommend that the following appropriations be made
from the General Fund to defray the expenses of the M. W. Grand Lodge
for the ensuing year:
For mileage and per diem of officers, representatives and committees. $20,000

For printing and distributing proceedings 3,000

For miscellaneous printing 1,000

For salaries of Grand Officers 4,500

For Schools of Instruction 1,200

For miscellaneous contingent expenses 5,000

$34,700

Also the following appropriations to be made from the Charity Fund :
For support and maintenance of the Illinois Masonic Orphans'

Home at Chicago $15,000

For support and maintenance of Illinois Masonic Home at Sullivan. 12,000

The foregoing amounts to be in addition to the unexpended balances
now in the treasury of these respective institutions, and to be paid to the
treasurer of said institutions to be used as required, itemized report of
the disbursement thereof to be submitted to the M. W. Grand Lodge at its
next annual communication.

Your committee approve the resolution offered by Bro. Joseph Rob-
bins, P. G. M., the intent of which is to purchase 500 copies of the History
of the First Grand Lodge of Illinois, as compiled by Bro. John C. Smith,
P. G. M., and recommend that $500 be appropriated from the General Fund
for the purpose indicated by the resolution.

Your committee further recommend that orders be drawn upon the
General Fund for the following items :

Bro. Joseph Robbins, P. G. M., Committee on Correspondence $500 oc

Bro. Wm. L. Orr, Grand Tyler 100 00

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Bro. Chester S. Gurncy, Acting Grand Tyler ioo oo

Bro. Chester S. Gurney for expenses incurred for present communi-
cation of M. W. Grand Lodge 71 52

Rent of Studebaker Hall 450 oc

Bro. G. A. Stadler, Deputy Grand Secretary 25 00

Bro. Z. T. Griffin, stenographer 50 00

Bro. Owen Scott, P. G. M., for traveling expenses in attending spe-
cial committee on revision of by-laws 21 00

Your committee would further recommend that the members of the
several committees in attendance upon this communication of the M. YV.
Grand Lodge be paid three dollars for each day's service rendered in ad-
dition to the per diem compensation provided in the by-laws ; also that the
Trustees of the Illinois Masonic Orphans' Home in Chicago be allowed
and paid from the General Fund the same compensation for each called
meeting of the Board which they have attended since October 8, 1903, as
is paid to members of M. W. Grand Lodge committees.

Your committee have carefully considered the reports presented by
the Board of Trustees for Illinois Masonic Home and for the Illinois
Masonic Orphans' Home, and recommend their acceptance by the M. W.
Grand Lodge, said reports to be printed with the proceedings.

In conclusion your committee recommend that the bonds of the R. W.
Grand Treasurer and R. W. Grand Secretary for ensuing year be fixed at
$30,000 each, said bonds to be furnished by some surety company approved
by the M. W. Grand Master, and that the premiums on said bonds be paid
by the M. W. Grand Lodge on orders drawn against the General Fund.

Fraternally submitted,

Geo. M. Moultox,
S. W. Waddle,
Gil. W. Barxard,

Committee on Finance.

SPECIAL EEPOET— Committee on Correspondence.

Bro. Joseph Robbins, P. G. M., chairman Committee on
Correspondence, offered the following special report, and on
motion it was adopted :

To t!:e M. ]]'. Grand Lodge of Illinois, A. F. and A. Masons:

Your Committee on Masonic Correspondence has been charged with
the duty of reporting on applications for recognition as governing bodies
of Symbolic Masonry, from the following bodies, to-wit :

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Grand Lodge of the Argentine Republic.

Grand Orient Argentine del Rito Azul (self translated Argentine Grand
Orient of the Blue Rite).

Grand Orient and Supreme Council of Brazil.

United Grand Lodge of Mexico.

Grand Lodge of Porto Rico.

Grand Lodge of Costa Rica.

Grand Lodge of Western Australia.

Grand Lodge of Queensland.

Grand Lodge Valle de Mexico.

The last named body, the Grand Lodge of the Valley of Mexico, was
included in a group of some fifteen grand bodies which was the subject of
a special report of this committee in 1901, action whereon was still pend-
ing when application for its recognition was received. By the adoption of
that report at the annual communication of 1903, recognition was denied
to the Grand Lodge Valle de Mexico, as well as to the other bodies with
which it was grouped in the resolution proposing it. Nothing has since
occurred to warrant this committee in recommending a reversal of that
action.

With the exception of the Grand Lodges of Western Australia and
Queensland, all the bodies named in the list of applicants given above, were
either already known to be, or in their applications for recognition furnish
indubitable evidence that they are, composed of lodges of illegitimate par-
entage and hence incapable of forming a grand lodge recognizable as
possessing any authority in Symbolic or Ancient Craft Masonry.

The Grand Lodge of Western Australia was formed on the nth of
October, 1899, when Sir Gerald Smith was elected Grand Master by the
joint action of thirty- four out of sixty-four lodges then existing in the
autonomous territory whose name it bears. The proceedings of the con-
vention which met to form the grand lodge were regular, and your com-
mittee has only awaited the confirmation of its belief, entertained from the
first, that a majority of all the lodges (whose equal right it was to be
invited to participate in considering the expediency of its formation) had
taken part in its erection.

Your committee has in its possession the proceedings of a convention
held at Brisbane, Queensland, March 23, and April 25, 1904, to organize the
Grand Lodge of Queensland, and also of the proceedings of the grand
lodge then and there organized.

There were existing in the then open, autonomous territory of Queens-
land about 140 lodges, of which 58 were under the English, 40 under the
Irish, and the remainder under the Scottish constitutions. Of these, on the
25th of August, 1904, there were under the constitution of the Independent

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Grand Lodge of Queensland 43, it having been organized on April 25, 1904,
with 39.

The lodges under the Queensland constitution are mainly those who
composed the District Grand Lodge, Irish constitution, whose grand
master, after consulting his chief, the Duke of Abercorn, Grand Master of
Ireland, and finding him not opposed to the formation of an independent
and sovereign grand lodge in Queensland if done in conformity with the
laws governing such matters, consented to accept the headship of the new
body, and threw his great influence into the scale in its favor.

Not so with the district grand masters under the English and Scottish
constitutions, who placed every possible obstacle in the way of the move-
ment.

Your committee is in possession of circulars issued by those in author-
ity in the English district grand lodges forbidding participation in and
discussion of the project, not only in the lodges when open but even among
the brethren while at refreshment under pain of suspension. Your com-
mittee is informed that those in authority in the Scottish provincial or
district grand lodges resorted to even more violent repressive measures
to deter the brethren and lodges of their constitution from participating in
the movement, even to the seizure of charters, and of lodge property; and
that the authorities of both these constitutions resorted to attempted sum-
mary suspension of individual brethren from their Masonic rights.

The authorities of the Grand Lodge of Queensland claim that but
for this unlawful interference with the rights of brethren and lodges, it
would have commanded the allegiance at the time of its formation, of a
large majority of all lodges in the territory, and that even under these ad-
verse conditions, accessions are coming in at a rapid rate.

Although your committee feels reasonably assured that the claims of
the Grand Lodge of Queensland that almost all of the lodges in the terri-
tory look upon it with favor, and that a large majority of them would at
once acknowledge their allegiance to it but for a natural hesitation to call
down upon themselves the severe penalties threatened, are well grounded,
it is not recommended that formal recognition should be accorded at this
communication.

The hesitating lodges and brethren should realize that well settled
principles of Masonic law are at stake, whose maintenance at any cost
is essential to the future welfare and harmonious existence of the frater-
nity. It is far better for them that they should first achieve a position
where recognition shall come to them as a matter of right, than that it
should be tendered to them as a favor.

Meanwhile it is due to all parties concerned that the principles which

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must and should govern the formation of grand lodges should be clearly
and emphatically re-stated :

We hold it to be well settled, that when in open, autonomous territory a
sufficient number of lodges exist to organize a grand lodge, the right of
such lodges to discuss within themselves and to determine for themselves
the expediency of such action, and to confer with any and all other
lodges similarly situated, upon all questions growing out of such proposed
organization, without duress from any quarter, is indefeasible ; and we hold
it to be equally settled that when a majority of the lodges in such open
autonomous territory — not less than three lodges agreeing thereto — unite
to form a grand lodge (the proceedings attending its formation having been
regular and all the lodges interested having been invited to participate
therein,) such grand lodge becomes at once the ultimate source of Masonic
authority in such territory, and entitled to supreme and exclusive jurisdic-
tion coterminous with its political boundaries.

In conclusion your committee recommends the adoption of the follow-
ing resolutions :

Resolved, That this grand lodge is constrained by events to declare :
That when the number of lodges existing in territory not already occupied
by an independent and sovereign grand lodge becomes sufficient to warrant
the formation of a sovereign grand lodge, such lodges and the brethren
thereof are and of right ought to be free to discuss, canvass and determine
all questions incident to a proposed organization without duress from any
other Masonic power; and that the Grand Lodge of Illinois, will not
respect any attempted deprivation of the Masonic rights, either of lodges
or of individual Masons, sought to be imposed for no other offence than
participation in the formation of a grand lodge in conformity with the
Masonic law into which the numerous precedents furnished by the history
of the Fraternity have now crystallized.

Resolved, That the Grand Lodge of Illinois welcomes the Grand Lodge
of Western Australia, organized October II, 1899. with Sir Gerard Smith,
as Grand Master, into the sisterhood of grand lodges, which she enters of
right by virtue of the regularity of her formation, and will gladly culti-
vate closer relations with that body by an exchange of representatives.

INTRODUCTIONS OF VISITORS.

The M. W. Grand Master:

My Brethren, I am sure the M. W. Grand Lodge of Illinois agrees
with me in extending to you, and through you, to the M. W. Grand Lodge
of Wisconsin, our most fraternal greeting. We are so glad to have so
many distinguished brethren from Wisconsin that it almost overwhelms us.

Brethren, you will join with me in extending to the Past Grand Mas-
ters of Wisconsin, the Grand Honors of Masonry.

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I know, brethren, that the brethren of this M. W. Grand Lodge will
be pleased to hear from you, of course not all at once, but in the order
that you stand before us.

Bro. W. W. Terry, P. G. M., of Wisconsin :

Most Worshipful Grand Master, and Brethren of Illinois — This is in-
deed a great pleasure, this morning, to look into the faces of men who
stand for the best interests of society, who stand for the best interests of
everything that is good.

We came down yesterday afternoon expecting to visit you after one
o'clock, but we found that you had adjourned. Brother Jenks we left
here with you last night. Brother Rogers and I went home and came back
this morning.

Wisconsin and Illinois are very closely related. The distance is not
very far from the meeting place of this M. W. Grand Lodge, and the
meeting place of the M. W. Grand Lodge of Wisconsin. And how delighted
in Wisconsin we should be, did any of you think it worth while to come up
to Milwaukee, in June — the first Tuesday in June and stay with us during
what we call our Grand Communication.

There is so much that might be said this morning and will be said I
know by those who follows me, that I feel embarrassed at being called upon
first. How precious time may be of course I know that during this com-
munication you have much to do and it is really trespassing upon your
time.

However, it is not the fact of our names being enrolled upon the insti-
tution or in the books of our institution that makes us Masons. We are
not 'to be judged by that or the fact that we pay dues or display numerous
emblems upon us. But we are to be known as Masons by what de do; by
living the life. If there is anything that Masonry teaches, it teaches us we
should practice the principles out of the lodge that we are taught in it.
It is not all to stand at the street corners and say that we are Masons, but
by living that life that we may be of advantage to our fellows.

I wish this morning to extend to you and through your Most Wor-
shipful Grand Master the fraternal greetings of the M. W. Grand Lodge of
the State of Wisconsin and say to you that this is not the only M. W.
Grand Lodge that has a brother by the name of Wright at is head, for
the M. W. Grand Master of the State of Wisconsin is David H. Wright, a
brother who is eighty-four years old and in possession of all his faculties
and the M. W. Grand Lodge of Wisconsin has been delighted to honor
this brother ; and so this morning, to each and every one of you I desire to
extend the fraternal greetings of 20,571 Masons in the State of Wisconsin.
I thank vou.

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The M. W. Grand Master: M. W. Bro. Jenks.

Bro. Aldro Jenks, P. G. M., of Wisconsin :

M. IV. Grand Master and brothers of the M. W . Grand Lodge of the
State of Illinois — I am pleased indeed this morning with having the
privilege of addressing this M. W. Grand Lodge. I have been acquainted
for some years with a member of a committee of the M. W. Grand Lodge
of the State of Illinois. Some years ago it was my good pleasure to meet
with your R. W. Grand Secretary, Brother Munn, of Freeport.

Some years ago the little sleepy town in which I have the pleasure of
residing was awakened to the fact that it had been connected by railroad
with the city of Freeport and we proceeded to cultivate friendly relations
with that city. It was my pleasure then to make the acquaintence of
Brother Munn and shortly afterwards he came in company with a number
of loyal Masons of the city of Freeport, visited our little city and there
participated in the work of Masonry.

Later, I was appointed to the very pleasant task of writing for the
State of Wisconsin its Foreign Correspondence Report and I awoke then
to the fact that you had some bright Masons in the State of Illinois and
among other things I was pleased to read the Foreign Correspondence
Report, prepared by my dear friend, Dr. Robbins. As the years went by I
continued to sit at his feet, as one of the oldest and one of the ablest writers
of the guild. I became possessed with the great desire to meet with him
in the flesh, and converse with him around — across the Round Table. And
so I planned this little excursion to the M. W. Grand Lodge of Illinois, very
largely, that I might have the opportunity of meeting this gentleman in
person. I have been received very cordially. The pleasant impressions
that I formed of your M. W. Grand Lodge, have been strengthened by the
cordial nature of our reception since we have come to your city. I think
perhaps, you in Illinois meeting Brother Robbins on terms of familiarity,
as you do, do not perhaps fully recognize his importance to the Craft.

For a long time there was a great strife between Brother Robbins,
and our lamented Brother Drummond, of Maine, as to who should be
the head of the Correspondence Guild of the world. But since the death
of Brother Drummond, I think there is no question from the consensus
of opinion that Brother Robbins is the Premier Correspondent of the world.

Every Grand Lodge needs a balance wheel. Now what happens to
machinery if they have not got a good balance wheel? Some people don't
know anything about machinery so that they are apt to overlook the
excentric, or the brake of the balance wheel. But you in Illinois know a
balance wheel when you see it, and you have got it in Brother Robbins.

Now I don't propose to detain you. I am to be followed by Brother
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say, in a particular place and manner, we always call upon Brother Rogers
to say it. In addition to that, he has the honor of representing this M. W.
Grand Lodge near the M. W. Grand Lodge of Wisconsin. It is very
proper that he should speak to you. I am pleased to have the opportunity
of coming here and rubbing elbows with these distinguished brethren, and
of looking into your faces, and thank you for the hearty welcome you have
given us.

The M. W. Grand Master:

Brethren of the M. W. Grand Lodge, Brother Rogers is the repre-
sentative of our M. W. Grand Lodge in Wisconsin. I know you will be
delighted to hear from him.

Bro. Charles C. Rogers :

M. W . Grand Master, and brethren of the M. W . Grand Lodge of the
State of Illinois — The M. W. Grand Lodge of Wisconsin is honored, and
I am indeed complimented in being for so many years named as your
embassador, as has been so pleasingly stated by Past Grand Master Jenks,
and your Most Worthy Grand Master.

Brethren of the M. W. Grand Lodge, every flower in the realm of
Masonic thought, I bring to you today that would either interest or
instruct you. We come from the sister jurisdiction of Wisconsin, as has
been said, to exchange salutations with you, to exchange greetings and to
look into the faces, and to touch elbows with the brotherhood of men,
whom I believe represents the best men, splendid citizenship of this
great commonwealth, and who as Masons represent the most exalted pos-
sibilities of friendship, and as a craft, today and in the past, have been
and are doing as much for the amelioration and for the unfolding of
humanity as any institution since the dawn of civilization.

M. W. Grand Master, we recall with indubitable pride and grati-
tude, that to the M. W. Grand Lodge of Illinois we owe very, very much,
for during the territorial days of Wisconsin, at the time when our fathers
were pioneers upon the borders of Wisconsin, you were their godfather
And it was from the M. W. Grand Lodge of Illinois '•and Missouri that
we came for our first dispensation for a new lodge, and new charter. You
will agree with me that those were days of trial and hardship. So they
were days that produced wonderful minds and great men, many of whom
bore the banner of Masonry and were a tower of strength in the up-build-
ing and the progressive development of Masonry.

The history in the state of Illinois is coupled with these strong manly
men who have held high places in your state and in the nation.

M. W. Grand Master, I recall at this moment the name of him
who was wise in statesmenship, he who ofttimes met the good martyred

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Lincoln in forensic debate — Stephen A. Dougles, of Illinois — was a great
man and a good Mason. I recall two courageous men — Brothers McDougal
and Shields. I also recall the names James H. Walker, of Parker, and of
Logan. They gave stability to Masonry and were an honor to the State
of Illinois.

M. W. Grand Master, I am not sufficiently acquainted, or familiar,
and it would be ungracious, perhaps, for me to do so — to make any com-
parisons of the noble and honored names of the living Grand Masters, and
others, who in the recent past are today the holders and living exponents
of the best thought of Masonry in Illinois, but I do know that their name
is legion. And, if you will permit me in this connection, inasmuch as
allusion has been made by the Past Grand Master who preceded me, to
Brother Robbins here, to let you into a little Masonic secret at this time
— permit me to say that it is not too much to say, and with modesty, that
we up in Wisconsin, have some bright, brainy men, Master Masons, great
Masons, and a couple of these Masons have already spoken. Just prior
to our coming, Brother Jenks wrote a letter to Brother Byers in which
he stated he had long contemplated this visit to this M. W. Grand Lodge,
and was told that Brother Perry and myself might accompany him. Now,
Brother Jenks, as he stated, has occupied for many years the office of
chairman of the Committee on Foreign Correspondence. He wields, as you
know, a trenchant pen, and he is a keen intellectual gladiator, as many
chairmen of Foreign Sister Jurisdictions have had occasion to know. But.
he is hot headed and has had a burning desire for many years to come to
the M. VV. Grand Lodge of Illinois and meet face to face this other
gladiator of thought, your own Dr. Robbins, and I will state, brethren, that
a committee has assigned a place for these two brethren, where they may
mingle together, so that these two gladiators may fight over the little
differences that they had years and years ago, which are now happily
settled.

Brethren, I know that we ought not longer to tax you, nor take up the
attention of this M. W. Grand Lodge. Permit me to say that I am
delighted to be here today and look into the faces of the mem who represent
the democracy, and the stability and the courage of this commonwealth of
the Masonry of this state. I think one of the grandest things of Masonry
are these enduring friendships, and the thoughts of benevolence and charity
that you assisted in doing today. And I think you will agree with me that
it is an inspiration and an honor to be a Mason and to live under its
fraternal skies. Brethren, I thank you.

Bro. Edward Cook, P. G. M.

Most Worshipful Grand Master — In company with all my brethren of
Illinois, I have long felt a kindly, fraternal interest in our good neighbors
of Illinois, just a little further towards the North Star. But my expecta-

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tions, my admiration, and my love for these brethren has been greatly in-
creased by what has occurred here this morning. I am glad to know and
have this practical demonstration of the fact that in spite of the opinions
that may be maintained to the contrary, there is a great deal of solid,
savory and live meat in Badgers. Most Worshipful Grand Master, I now
move that the thanks of this Most Worshipful Grand Lodge be extended
to these good brethren, for their visit to us, and for the very kind friend-
ship and complimentary words they have said of this M. W. Grand Lodge,
and some of its members, and particularly for the appreciation which they
justly have for our Committee on Correspondence.

Motion carried.

Bro. Owen Scott, P. G. M.

In the absence of our distinguished brother, the representative of the
M. W. Grand Lodge of New Jersey, near this M. W. Grand Lodge, I
have a pleasing duty. We have listened with much pleasure to the re-
marks of the distinguished brethren form our sister state, and we are
convinced that there has been a good selection from this state of Wis-
consin, and that is not what is commonly referred to that made Milwaukee
famous at all (laughter) but we find that it is the band of Past Grand
Masters of that city.

Now we desire to cultivate fraternal relations with all the nations of
the world, and we have in our midst today, a distinguished brother who
is a Past Grand Master of one of the foreign countries of the world — the
state of New Jersey, and I have the great pleasure, therefore, to present
to you, Past Grand Master Bro. Charles H. Mann, of New Jersey.

The M. W. Grand Master:

Brethren of the Grand Lodge — It affords me great pleasure to in-
troduce to you, Bro. Charles H. Mann, Past Grand Master of New Jer-
sey, and request you to join with me in extending to him the Grand Honors
of Masonry.

Bro. Mann :

M. W. Grand Master, and brethren of the Grand Jurisdiction of
Illinois — It is purely by accident that I have the pleasure of being with you
this morning for a few minutes. I am in Chicago on business, and last
night by accident, I heard that the M. W. Grand Lodge was in session,
and I expressed to the brother a wish to make a short visit to you, and he
very kindly brought me here, and I thank you for this kind reception.

I am not prepared, Most Worshipful Grand Master, to make any ex-
tended address, or remarks to you this morning. But I can only bring
to you from that "foreign" state, of Spain, as it is sometimes called, the

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state of sand lice and mosquitos, the hearty welcome and greetings of
the Masons there to the Masons of this Grand Jurisdiction.

We are all of one family, whether from the East or West, or the
North or South, and when a brother gets in a strange city, he is always
glad to know that he has some place to go in a Masonic gathering where
he will feel at home, and be sure of that greeting, that friendly and bro-
therly greeting, which every Mason in this Grand Jurisdiction has for
him. I thank you, Most Worshipful Grand Master for the opportunity
to say these few words, and I thank the brethren for their kindly listening.

Presentation of Credentials.
Brother Robbins, P. G. M. :

M. IV. Grand Master — I have the pleasure of presenting to you my
credentials as the Representative of the M. W. Grand Lodge of Wash-
ington.

The M. W. Grand Master :

Worshipful Brother Robbins, the M. W. Grand Lodge of Illinois will
be delighted to receive the Representative of the M. W. Grand Lodge of
Washington.

Brethren, the Representative of the State of Washington is before you.
You recognize him. You will join with me in extending to him, and
through him to the M. W. Grand Lodge of Washington, the Grand Honors
of Masonry.

Brother Robbins :

M. IV. Grand Master — I shall not trespass upon the time of the M. W.
Grand Lodge, longer than to say that I thank you most heartily for this
evidence of your good will to the M. W. Grand Lodge which I have the
honor to represent, and I consider it a great honor to represent that live,
young jurisdiction, now not fifty years of age, which has produced, and
which numbers among its grand officers, one man that stands, in my estima-
tion, as the noblest Roman of them all — Thomas Marshell Reed,— than
whom I think there is no higher name in the Masonry of this country.

AMENDMENTS— To Grand Lodge By-Laws— Proposed.
The following amendments were offered to the Report of
the Committee on Revision of Grand Lodge By-laws, and being
seconded by the representatives of twenty lodges, lie over
until next year.

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By Bro. Louis Zinger:

Amend Part I, Article 15, Section 4, so as to read as follows:
"Section 4. The members of the Board of Trustees shall receive from
the appropriations made for the Home the same mileage and per diem for
attending meetings of the Board as is allowed by the M. W. Grand Lodge
to the members of its Standing Committees.

By Bro. E. E. Brothers :

Amend Section 1, Article 15, Part 1, by striking out "six" in the
third and fifth lines thereof and inserting "three," and by striking out the
words "two trustees" in the seventh line and inserting the words "one
trustee," so that the section will read, when amended :

"The supervision and management of the Masonic Homes established
or controlled by the M. W. Grand Lodge shall be vested in a Board of
Trustees consisting of five ex-oMcio and three appointive members, each
of whom shall be members of some constituent lodge of Illinois. The terms
of office of the three appointive members shall be for three years, or until
their successors have been duly appointed and qualified. The M. W. Grand
Master is empowered to appoint as members of this Board one Trustee
each year, immediately after his election and installation to office, and the
M. W. Grand Master, R. W. Deputy Grand Master, R. W. Grand Wardens,
and R. W. Grand Secretary shall be ex-oMcio members of the Board. The
Board may effect its own organization, and administer its affairs by such
sub-committees, and by the adoption of such rules and regulations as are
not inconsistent with Grand Lodge By-Laws, subject at all-times to the
approval of the M. W. Grand Master or M. W. Grand Lodge."

By Bro. Owen Scott :

Amend Sections 17, 18, and 19, Article 9, Part 1, M. W. Grand
Lodge By-Laws by striking out the word "or" and inserting in place
thereof the word "and" in the first lines of each of said sections and
in the fifth line of section 17, and by striking out the word "deputy"
before Grand Lecturers whenever it occurs in said sections ; also by
striking out the words "or Deputy Grand" in first line of Section 1, Article
32, Part 2."

By Bro. John C. Weis :

Amend Part 1, Article 19, Section 17, by striking out in the second
line the words "without fee," and by striking out all after the word
"direct" in the eighth line.

Section 17, as amended, will read as follows: "It shall be the duty
of the Grand Lecturers or Examiners who may be appointed by the M. W.

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Grand Master to examine all applicants for commissions as Deputy Grand
Lecturers, who may present themselves for that purpose, and report to
the M. W. Grand Master upon the qualfkations of such applicants ; and said
Grand Lecturers or Examiners may hold Schools of Instruction, at such
time and place as the M. W. Grand Master may order, and perform such
other duties incident to their position as he may direct."

By Bro. J. R. Ennis:

Amend Section I, Article 13, Part 2, Grand Lodge By-laws as pro-
posed by the committee, by striking out "other" before lodge in the fourth
line and inserting "previously" before "made," in the same line, so that the
section will read :

"All petitions for the degrees or for membership shall be made in writ-
ing, and signed by the applicant with his full name ; shall state his age,
occupation, and place of residence, and, in case of a petitioner for the
degrees, whether he has previously made application to any lodge ; and
shall be accompanied by the fee which the by-laws of the lodge require
with the petition. Every petition shall be recommended in writing by
three members of the lodge, and be read at a stated meeting, and entered
in substance upon the records. After it has been read it is received by the
voice of the lodge, either tacitly or formally given ; or, at its pleasure, the
lodge may refuse to receive it.

By Bro. Elmer E. Beach :
Add the following, to be known as Section 20, Article 9, Part 1,
Grand Lodge By-Laws :

"Each Deputy Grand Lecturer who shall attend any one of the Schools
of Instruction, shall be allowed and paid, upon bills properly audited and
approved, two dollars per day for the time actually spent in attendance at
such school and six cents per mile for the distance from his home to the
nearest School of Instruction.

By Bro. Jos. Robbins :

Amend Article 21, Part 2, Grand Lodge By-Laws, by striking out
all after the caption and inserting in lieu thereof the following words :

"Affiliation — Every brother ought to belong to some lodge, and be
subject to its by-laws, as well as to the general regulations.

EESOLUTION-By K. W. Bro. L. L. Munn.

R. W. Bro. L. L. Munn offered a resolution that fraternal greetings be
sent by the M. W. Grand Lodge to Bro. Henry L. Palmer, P. G. M., of
Wisconsin. Adopted.

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REPORT— Committee on Railroads and Transportation.
The R. W. Grand Secretary read the following report
from the Committee on Railroads and Transportation, and, on
motion, it was adopted.

To the M. 11'. Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. Masons, of Illinois:

Brethren — Your Committee on Railroads and Transportation re-
spectfully report, that they arranged for a rate of one and one-third fare
for the round trip, with both the Western and Central Passenger Associa-
tions, covering the State of Illinois.

We have received, certified and turned over to the join agent 610 certi-
ficates which have been duly executed and are now ready for delivery in
the lobby of the adjoining hall.

Respectfully and fraternally submitted,

J. O. Clifford,
Jno. Whitley,

Committee.
Chicago, October 6, 1904.

REPORT— Committee to Examine Visitors.

The R. \V. Grand Secretary read the following report
from the Committee to Examine Visitors, and on motion it
was approved.

Chicago, III., September 6, 1904.
To the M. W . Grand Lodge of Illinois, A. F. and A. Masons:

Your committee appointed to examine visitors at this session of the
Grand Lodge respectfully report, that we have examined all who have pre-
sented themselves and vouched for them to the Grand Tyler.
Fraternally submitted,

H. T. Burnap,
Isaac Cutter,
H. A. Snell,
M. B. Iott,
Charles H. Martin,

Committee.

GRAND OPFICERS-Appointed.

The R. W. Grand Secretary read the following list of
Grand Officers appointed by the M. W. Grand Master :

190-i] Grand Lodge of Illinois. 187

J. W. VanCleve R.IV. Grand Chaplain Decatur

Herbert Preston R.IV. Grand Orator Chicago

Geo. A. Stadler W. Deputy Grand Secretary. .Decatur

Henry L. Whipple W. Grand Pursuivant Quincy

Louis Zinger IV. Grand Marshal Pekin

W. H. Peak W. Grand Standard Bearer. . . Jonesboro

J. R. Ennis IV. Grand Sword Bearer Burnt Prairie

Walter Watson W. Senior Grand Deacon Mt. Vernon

Norman Mesnard IV. Junior Grand Deacon Blue Mound

W. M. Burbank W. Grand Steward Chicago

Geo. W. Hamilton IV. Grand Steward Prairie City

W. B. Grimes IV. Grand Stezvard Pittsfield

C. Rohrbough W. Grand Stezvard Kinmundy

C. S. Gurney Bro. Grand Tyler Chicago

INSTALLATION-Of Grand Officers.

Bro. Monroe C. Crawford, assisted by Bro. George M.
Moulton as Grand Marshal, installed the following officers :

Wm. B. Wright M.W. Grand Master Effingham

Chester E. Allen R.IV. Deputy Grand Master. .Galesburg

Alexander H. Bell R.IV. Senior Grand Warden. . Carlinville

A. B. Ashley R.IV. Junior Grand Warden. .La Grange

L. A. Goddard R.W. Grand Treasurer Chicago

J. H. C. Dill R.W. Grand Secretary Bloomington

Herbert Preston R.W. Grand Orator Chicago

Geo. A. Stadler W. Deputy Grand Secretary. . Decatur

Henry L. Whipple W . Grand Pursuivant Quincy

Louis Zinger W . Grand Marshal Pekin

W. H. Peak IV. Grand Standard Bearer. . .Jonesboro

J. R. Ennis W. Grand Szvord Bearer Burnt Prairie

Walter Watson W. Senior Grand Deacon Mt. Vernon

Norman Mesnard IV. Junior Grand Deacon Blue Mound

W. M. Burbank IV. Grand Steward Chicago

Geo. W. Hamilton W. Grand Steward Prairie City

W. B. Grimes W. Grand Stezvard Pittsfield

C. Rohrbough W. Grand Stezvard Kinmundy

C. S. Gurney Bro. Grand Tyler Chicago

188 Proceedings of the [Oct. G,

STANDING COMMITTEES.

The M. W. Grand Master appointed the following stand-
ing committees :

JURISPRUDENCE.

John M. Pearson, John C. Smith, Owen Scott, Edward Cook, Chas. F.

Hitchcock.

APPEALS AND GRIEVANCES.

Monroe C. Crawford, Joseph E. Dyas, Wm. S. Cantrell, Henry E. Ham-
ilton, David L. Wright.

LODGES UNDER DISPENSATION.

Daniel J. Avery, H. C. Mitchell, John Johnson, I. H. Todd, M. Bates Iott.

CHARTERED LODGES.

James L. Scott, L. K. Byers, W. W. Watson, Thos. W. Wilson, D. D.

Darrah.

MILEAGE AND PER DIEM.

John A. Ladd, W. F. Beck, George W. Tipsword.

FINANCE.

George M. Moulton, Gil. W. Barnard, Samuel W. Waddle.

CORRESPONDENCE.

Joseph Robbins.

GRAND LECTURERS.

H. T. Bnrnap, Isaac Cutter, Hugh A. Snell, Charles H. Martin, S. S.

Borden.

TRUSTEES OF HOME.

Leroy A. Goddard, P. W. Barclay, Owen Scott.
Special Committee on Revision of By-Laws is continued.

The minutes of the Sixty-fifth Annual Communication
were then read and approved.

1904]

Grand Lodge of Illinois.

189

CLOSED.
At ii 145 a. m., no further business appearing, the M. W.
Grand Master proceeded to close the M. W. Grand Lodge in

AMPLE FORM.

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GRAND MASTER.

Attest:

GRAND SECRETARY.

M.W. Grand Master's Address —

EFFINGHAM, ILLINOIS

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190

Proceedings of the

[Oct. 6,

Districts and District Deputy Grand Masters
For the Years 1902-3.

Henry McCall.

Robert R. Jampolis

Elmer E. Beach.

Jay L. Brewster.
A. G. Everett

WillC. Stillson....

Daniel D. Hunt

John B. Fithian...
W. D. Fullerton...
T. Van Antwerp . .

J. S. Burns

Emerson Clark...
Chas. T. Holmes...
G. O. Friedrich ..

Wm. N. Ewing

W. H. McClain

David E. Bruffett.

Chas. F. Tenney
Froud Hudson...

20 D. B.Hutchison...

21 C. C. Marsh

22 Peter F.Clark

POSTOBTICE ADDRESS.

30

John W. Rose

Rufus H. Smith

Ant'ny Doherty

Wm. Montgomery.
Geo. S Caughlan..
J. M. Burkhart

Henry T. Goddard.
J. W. Morris

335 Wabash Ave., Chicago.

1 60 W'shingt'n St., Chicago

1501 Ashland Blk, Chicago.

Waukegan, Lake Co

Rockford, Winnebago Co

Tampico, Whiteside Co...
DeKalb, DeKalb county ..

Joliet, Will county

Ottawa, La Salle county..
Sparland, Marshall Co

Orion, Henry Co

Farmington, Fulton Co. .
Galesburg, Knox county.

Chillicothe, Peoria Co

McLean, McLean Co

Onarga, Iroquois county.
Urbana, Champaign Co.

Bement, Piatt county

Springfield, Sangamon Co.

Jacksonville, Morgan Co..
Bowen, Hancock county ..
Girard, Macoupin Co

Litchfield, Montgomery Co.
Toledo, Cumberland Co. ..

Clay City, Clay Co

COUNTIES COMPOSING DISTRICT.

Moro, Madison Co

E. St. Louis St. Clair Co
Marion, Williamson Co...

Mt. Carmel, Wabash Co.

Cairo, Alexander Co

Lodges Nos. 33, 160, 211, 308, 314, 410,
•137, 524, 557, 639. 662. 686, 711, 726, 751,

767, 774, 779, 784, 797, 810. 818, 836, 842,
851, 860, 864, Equity. U. D., Stand-
ard, U. D., in Cook Co.

Lodges Nos. 81, 182. 271, 310. 393, 411,
478, 526,610,642, 669, 690, 716, 731, 758,

768, 776, 780,789, 800, 813, 819, 839, 843,

854. 862. 865, Cornerstone, U.D., in
Cook Co.

Lodges Nos. 141, 209, 277, 311, 409, 422,
508, 540, 611.643, 674, 697, 717, 739, 765,
770, 777. 783, 795, 804, 815, 832, 841. 850,

855, 863, 869, Wm. McKinley, U.D.,
in Cook Co.

Kane, McBenry, and Lake.

Boone, Winnebago, and Stephen-
son.

Jo Daviess, Carroll, and Whiteside.

Ogle, Lee. and DeKalb.

Kendall, DuPage. Will. and Grundy

La Salle and Livingston.

Bureau, Putnam, Marshall, and
Stark.

Henry, Rock Island, and Mercer.

McDonough, Fulton, and Schuyler

Knox. Warren, and Henderson.

Peoria. Woodford, and Tazewell.

McLean, DeWitt, and Ford.

Kankakee, Iroquois. and Vermilion.

Champaign, Douglas, Edgar, and
Coles.

Piatt, Moultrie. Macon, and Logan.

Mason, Menard, Sangamon, and
Cass.

Brown, Morgan. Scott, and Pike.

Adams and Hancock.

Calhoun, Greene, Jersey, and Ma-
coupin.

Montgomery, Christian, and Shelby

Cumberland, Clark, Crawford, Jas-
per, Richland, and Lawrence.

Clay, Effingham, Fayette, and Ma-
rion.

Bond, Clinton, and Madison.

St. Clair, Monroe, and Randolph.

Washington, Jefferson, Franklin,
Perry, Jackson, and Williamson.

Wayne, Edwards, Wabash, White,
Hamilton, Saline, and Gallatin.

Hardin, Pope, Massac, Johnson,
Union, Pulaski, and Alexander.

1904]

Grand Lodge of Illinois.

197

DEPUTY GRAND LECTURERS.

For the Year 1903-4.

Two Edward Cook. ..Chicago

Twenty W.B. Grimes. ..Pit tsttt.-ld

Twenty-seven. .Jas. D >uglas Chester

Eighteen Chas.F.Tenney, Bement

Three A.B.Ashley. ..LaGrange

Three James John Chicago

Twenty-three. .Jno. W. Rose.. Litchfield

Three H. S. Hurd Chicago

Twentv-nine. .. J.R.Ennis. Burnt Prairie

Fifteen J H.C Dill, Bloomington

Eighteen G. A. Stadler. .. .Decatur

Twenty John E. Morton.. . Perry

Twenty-one W. O. Butler LaHarpe

Seventeen William E. Ginther,

Charleston

Eighteen Owen Scott Decatur

Twenty-eight. .T.H Humphr'ys D'Quoin

Twenty-five C.Rohrbough.Kinm'ndy

Fourteen G. O. Friedrich,

Chillicothe
Twenty-seven. I. II. Todd. .E. St. Louis

Six C. E. Grove.. Mt. Carroll

Twenty D. B. Hutchison,

Jacksonville

Thirteen C. E. Allen Galesburg

Fifteen D. D. Darrah, Blo'm'gton

Two H. S. Albin Chicago

Three Arthur G. Goorlridge,

Irving Park
Twenty-nine.. .S. M. Schoemann,

McLeansboro

Twenty-two W. K. Bowling.. .Virden

Twenty-t* o R. F. Morrow Virden

Twenty-six J. G. Sietz.. Upper Alton

Tweity Chas.G.YouLg.Taylorv'l

Twelve Em'rs'n Clark. Far m'gtn

Three W. M. Bur bank, Chicago

Thirteen Sam'l G. Jarvis, Victoria

Nine Jas. McCredie, Earlville

-One S. S. Borden Chicago

Thirty W. H Peak.. .Jonesboro

Twenty-two . , .P. F. Clark Girard

Thirteen J B.Randl'sn.E.Gales'bg

One Herb't Preston, Chicago

Twenty-six En's Johnson, Up'r Alton

Twenty-nine... C. N. Hambleton,

Jeffersonville

Thirteen H. C. Yetter. .Galesburg

Fifteen Carl Swigart .... Weldon

Twelve G.A.Lackens,Go<>d H >pe

One A. O. Novander. Chicago

Twenty-one C. C. Marsh B>wen

Nineteen j B. Roach, Beardstown

Eleven J. S. Burns Orion

Twenty-six W.F Sinclair. Up'r A'ton

DISTRICT.

Thirty T.N.Cum'ins, Reevesv'le

Three Louis Picket', Pullman

Twenty-five .... Anth. Doherty, Clay City

Thirteen Chas.T Holmes.Gales'bg

Twelve Geo. D. B 11.. Bushnell

Twelve Geo.S. Doughty, Bushn'll

Twenty C. P. Ross.. Jacksonville

Eleven Lawrence C. Johnson,

Galva

Three Archib'ld Birse, Chicago

Three Edgr Bogardus, Chicago

Twenty-one — F. M. Pendleton, Quincy

Three R. H Wheeler.. Chicago

Three L. J. Amsden Chicago

One ..R. W. King Chicago

Two E. E Beach Chicago

Two W. H. Robson... Chicago

Thirteen Louis Becker, Knoxv'lle

Thirteen R. L. Evarts..Knoxville

Twenty-six E. E. Wise. ...Greenville

Two H. W. Harvey. .Chicago

One J.H.M.rrow Chicago

Three F.H.Morehouse, Chicago

One F. J. Burton Chicago

Twenty-nine.. . I. A. Poster, New Haven

Three CM. Babbitt . . . .Chicago

One S.M. Frankland, Chicago

Seventeen . .. .D. E. Bruffett .. .Urbana

Eleven C. B. Ward, Rock Island

Eleven J. G. Huntoon. Rocklsl'd

Pifteen A. H. Scrogin, Lexingt'n

Fifteen G. R. Smith, Bloom'gton

Eight JohnH Griffiths. Chicago

Two A. Jampolis Chicago

Eighteen Jas. M. Willard, Decatur

Eighteen Wm. A. Dixon ..Decatur

Two Geo. M. Abbott, Chicago

One Edw.W. Peterson, Chi'go

Three Albert Davis... .Chicago

Two Albert Roullier.Chicago

Twenty E. C. Rohrer . . . Waverly

Two E. D. Brothers. Chicago

Two Louis Ladewich.Chic'go

Two L B.Dyer Chicago

Eighteen N. M. Mesnard.... Boody

Thirteen A. Wm. West. Abingdon

Fourteen John C. Weis Peoria

Three Adam Schmidt, Chicago

One R. H. Gulley ...Chicago

Nineteen Frank Hud son.Sp'gfield

Two Wm.Balhatchet Chic go

One H. E. VanL'on, Chicago

Twentv-one. ...Wm M. Cable . ..Quincy

Thirteen Chas E.Slagle. Abingd'n

Twenrv-seven . E.W Egem'n E ^t.l.ouis

198

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[Oct. 6,

REPRESENTATIVES

OF THE M. W. GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS NEAR OTHER GRAND LODGES.

GRAND LODGE.

Alabama

Arizona

Arkansas

British Columbia

California

Canada

Colorado

Connecticut

Cuba

Delaware

District of Columbia

England

Florida

Georgia

Idaho

Indiana

Indian Territory

Ireland

K ansas

Louisiana

Manitoba

Maine

Maryland

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska —

Nevada

New Brunswick

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

New Zealand

North Carolina

North Dakota

Nova Scotia

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Prince Edward Island

Quebec

Rhode Island

Scotland —

South Australia

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee :

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

"West Virginia

Wisconsin

United Grand Lodge of Victoria.

United Grand Lodge of New

South Wales

REPRESENTATIVE.

W. W. Damn

Artemus Louden Grow

Geo. B Norton

W. W. Northcott

John McMurry

Abraham bhaw ...

Henry M. Teller

Geo. E. Parsons

Juan B. Hernandez Barreiro.

Geo. M. Jones

L. Cabel Williamson

Walter Henry Harris

James C. Craver

James Whitehead

Stephen Dempsey

B. M. Wiloughby

Silas Armstrong

Obadiah Ternan

Matthew M. Miller —

Chas. F. Buck

John Leslie

William R. G.Estes

David C.Avery

Arthur M. Hume

A. T. Stebbins

Frederic Speed

Martin Collins

Cornelius Hedges

George H. Thummel

Charles E. Mack

William A.Dougherty

SewellW. Abbott

Jos. A. Gaskill

John W. Poe

William H. Mayer

Murdoch McLean

Leo D. Heartt

E. George Guthrie

Theo. A. Cossman

O. P. Sperra ». .

Selwyn Douglas

W. T. Wright

Henry M. Aitkin

E. C. Rothwell

Newton D. Arnold

Miles Mclnnes

John Trail McLean

John F. Ficken

Oscar S. Giff ord

A. V. Warr

A. Scott Chapman

Delos M. Bacon

Beverly R. Wellford, jr.

Louis Ziegler

Hiram R. Howard

Charles C. Rogers

Edward Edwards

W. Beavis.

RESIDENCE.

Grove Hill.

Tombstone.

Newport.

Victoria.

Weaverville.

Kingston, Ont.

Central City.

Norwich.

Havana.

Dover.

Washington.

London.

Sutherland.

Warrenton.

Nampa.

Vincennes.

Wyandotte.

Enniskillen.

Topeka.

New Orleans.

Winnipeg.

Skowhegan.

Baltimore.

Owosso.

RochesU r.

Vicksburg.

St. Louis.

Helena.

Omaha.

Virginia.

Saint John.

Wolfboro.

Mount Holly.

Roswell.

New York.

Auckland

Asheville.

Casselton.

Halifax.

Ravenna.

Oklahoma City

Union.

Charlottetown.

Montreal.

Providence.

Dumfries.

Adelaide.

Charleston.

Canton.

Rossville.

Salt Lake City.'

St. Johnsbury.

Richmond.

Spokane.

Point Pleasant.

Milwaukee.

Melbourne.

Sydney.

1904]

Grand Lodge of Illinois.

199

REPRESENTATIVES

OF OTHER GRAND LODGES NEAR THE GRAND LODGE OP ILLINOIS

GRAND LODGE.

REPRESENTATIVE.

RESIDENCE.

Alabama

Arizona

Arkansas

British Columbia

California

Canada

Colorado

Connecticut

Cuba

Delaware

District of Columbia

England

Florida

Georgia

Idaho

Indiana

Indian Territory

Ireland

Kansas

Louisiana

Maine

Manitoba

Maryland

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

New Brunswick

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

New Zealand

North Carolina

North D -kota

Nova Scotia

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Prince Edward Island

Quebec

Rhode Island

Scotland

South Carolina

South Australia

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

"Washington

"West Virginia ,

"Wisconsin

United Grand Lodge of South

"Wales

United Grand Lodge of Victoria.

Chester E. Allen

Monroe C. Crawford.. .

R. T. Spencer

Loyal L. Munn

John McLaren

Sylvester O. Spring

Albert Roullier

Chas. F. Hitchcock

George M. Moulton

William S. Cantrell

Philander W. Barclay.

JohnC. Smith

John C. Smith

W. J. A. DeLancey

W. M. Burbank

"W. B. Wright

Delmar D. Darrah

Thomas E. Miller

George M. Moulton

Ler oy A. Goddard

Charles H. Brenan

Hugh R. Stewart

M. B. Iott

Joseph E. Dy as

William Johnston

John C. Smith

George A. Stadler

A. B. Ashley

C. M. Forman

JohnC. Smith

Robert F. Thorogood . .

Henry E. Hamilton

W. B. Grimes

Henry E. Hamilton

Walter A. Stevens

John M. Pearson

Jam es B. McFatrich

Geo. W. Warvelle

L. B. Dixon

S. S. Chance

J H C. Dill

Frank W. Havill

E. T. E. Becker

John Johnston

Albert B. Wicker

Joseph Robbins

Elmer E. Beach

William L. Milligan

Robert L. McKinlay

Alexander H. Bell

Edward Cook

Owen Scott .

Hugh D. Hunter

Amos Pettibone

Joseph Robbins

Charles Reifsnider

Gil. W. Barnard

R. T. Spencer.
R. T. Spencer

Galesburg.

Jonesboro.

Chicago.

Freeport

Chicago.

Peoria.

Chicago.

Peoria.

Chicago.

Benton.

Cairo.

Chicago.

Chicago.

Centralia.

Chicago.

Effingham.

Bloomington.

Chicago.

Chicago.

Chicago.

Chicago.

Chicago.

Evanston.

Paris.

Chicago.

Chicago.

Decatur.

LaGrange.

East St. Louis.

Chicago.

Rogers Park.

Chicago.

Pittsfield.

Chicago.

Chicago.

Godfrey.

Chicago.

Chicago.

Chicago.

Salem.

Bloomington.

Mt. Carmel.

Mt. Carroll.

Chicago.

Franklin Gr've

Quincy.

Chicago.

Ottawa.

Paris.

Carlinville.

Chicago.

Decatur.

Chicago.

Chicago.

Quincy.

Chicago.

Chicago.

Chicago.
Chicago.

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[Oct. 6,

LIST OF GRAND LODGES

Recognized by the Grand Lodge of Illinois, together with Names an
Addresses of Grand Secretaries.

GRAND LODGE.

Alabama

Arizona

Arkansas

British Columbia

California

Canada

Colorado

Connecticut

Cuba

Delaware

District of Columbia. .

Kngland

Florida

Georgia

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Indian Territory

Iowa

Ireland

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

Manitoba

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

New Brunswick

New Hamp-hire

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

New Zealand

North Carolina

NorthDikota

Nova Scotia

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Prince Edward Island.

Quebec

Rhode Island

Scotland

South Australia

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tasmania

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

United Grand Lodge of

Victoria

United Grand Lodge of

New South Wales..

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

GRAND SECRETARY.

Geo. A. Beauchamp

George J. Roskruge

Fay Hem pstead

R E. Brett

George Johnson

Hugh Murray

Wm. D. Toda

John H. Barlow

Aurelio Miranda

Benj. F. Bartram

A. W. Johnston

Edward Letch worth

W. P. Webster

W. A. Wolihin

Theo. W. Randall

J. H. C. Dill

Calvi . W Prather

Joseph S. Murrow

Newton R. Parvin

Arch.St.Geoige, D.G.Sec

Albert K. Wilson

Henry B. Grant

Richard Lambert

Stephen Berry

James A. Ovas

William M. Isaac

Sercno D. Nickerson . .

Lou B. Winsor

Thomas Montgomery. .

Frederic Speed

John D Vincil

Cornelius Hedges

Francis E . White

Chauncey N. Noteware

J. Twining Hartt

Frank D. Woodbury

Thos. H. R. Red way

Alpheus A . Keane

Edward M. L. Ehlers ..

Malcolm Niccol

John C. Drury

Frank J. Thompson —

Thomas Mowbray

J . H . Brom well

Jas. S. Hunt

James F. Robinson

Wm. A. Sinn

Neil Mac Kelvie

Will H. Whyte

S. Penrose Williams ...

David Reid

J H.Cunningham

Charles Inglesby

George A Peltigrew...

John Hamilton

John B. Garrett

John Watson

Christopher Diehl

John Braim.

Arthur H. Bray

Henry H. Ross

Geo. W. Carrington .

Thomas M. Reed

G^o. W. Atkinson

Wm. W. Perry

Wm. M. Kuykendall.

ADDRESS.

Montgomery.

Tucson.

Little Rock.

Victoria.

San Francisco.

Hamilton, Ontario

Denver.

Hartford.

Hav na.

Wilmington.

Washington.

London.

Jacksonville.

Macon.

Boise.

Bloomington.

Indianapolis.

Atoka.

Cedar Rapids.

Dublin.

Topeka.

Louisville.

New Orleans.

Portland.

Winnipeg.

Baltimore.

Boston.

Reed City.

St. Paul.

Vicksburg.

St. Louis.

Helena.

Omaha.

Carson City.

St. John.

Concord.

Trenton.

Albuquerque.

New York.

Wellington.

Raleigh.

Fargo.

Halifax.

Cincinnati.

Stillwater.

Eugene.

Philadelphia.

Summt-rside.

Montreal.

Providence.

Edmburg.

Adelaide.

Charleston.

Sioux Falls.

Hobart.

Nashville.

Waco.

Salt Lake City.

Melbourne.

Svdney.

Burlington.

Richmond.

Olvmpia.

Charleston.

Milwaukee.

Saratoga.

1904] Grand Lodge of Illinois. 201

MASONIC LITERATURE.

The Grand Secretary desires to thank the editors of the following
magazines and papers for kindly supplying his office with their publica-
tions during the past year, in exchange for our proceedings. We shall
be happy to exchange with all Masonic publications and papers having
a Masonic department.

The Illinois Freemason — Bloomington, Illinois.

Masonic Advocate— Indianapolis, Indiana.

The Masonic Chronicler —Chicago , Illinois.

The Australasian Keystone, Melbourne, Victoria.

Masonic Tidings — Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The Trestle Board— 408 California street, San Francisco, California.

Masonic News — Peoria, Illinois.

Masonic Journal— Portland, Maine.

The Masonic Constellation — St. Louis, Missouri.

The New Zealand Craftsman — Dunedin.

Square and Compass — Denver, Colorado.

The Texas Freemason— i^an Antonio, Texas.

The American Tyler — Ann Arbor, Michigan.

The Freemason and Fezz— Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Masonic Token — Portland, Maine.

The Masonic Review — Tacoma, Washington.

Square and Compass — New Orleans, Louisiana.

The Tennessee Mason — Nashville, Tennessee.

Masonic Standard— New York, New York.

Masonic Voice and Review — Chicago, Illinois.

The Pacific Mason — Seattle, Washington.

The Signet — Decatur, Illinois.

The Masonic Observer — Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Southern Freemason —Atlanta, Georgia.

Our Fraternal Dead

ILLINOIS

BRO. JOHN H. ANTHONY
Wm. C. Hobbs No. 306. Died November 20, 1903

BRO. WILLIAM ENOCH BACON
Litchfield No. 517. Died September 20, 1903

BRO. CHARLES BANZET
Somonauk No. 646. Died January 7, 1894

BRO. A. H. C. BARBER
DeWitt No. 84. Died March — , 1904

BRO. ESQUIRE BARNES
Manchester No. 229. Died November 3, 1903

BRO. WILLIAM T. BARTON
Rockport No. 830. Died August 8, 1903

BRO. HIRAM W. BECKWITH
Olive Branch No. 38. Died December 22, 1903

BRO. FRANCIS S. BELDEN
Evans No. 524. Died January 7, 1904

BRO. THOMAS B. BENT
Garden City No. 141. Died December 28, 1903

BRO. CHARLES A. BESORE
Urbana No. 157. Died January 17, 1904

BRO. WILEY N. BIGGS
Basco No. 618. Died January 31, 1904

BRO. CHARLES W. BISHOP
Calumet No. 716. Died January II, 1904

Our Fraternal Dead

ILLINOIS

BRO. SAMUEL H. BLANE
Clinton No. 19. Died June 17, 19^4

BRO. CHARLES H. BRANDENBURG
Eureka No. 69. Died November 26, 1903

BRO. HARRY L. BUNNELL
Aurora No. 254. Died November 6, 1903

BRO. HIRAM CAMPBELL
Clay No. 153. Died May 24, 1904

BRO. JOHN CAMPBELL
Kensington No. 804. Died January 5, 1904

BRO. HENRY COLE
Crete No. 763. Died December 24, 1903

BRO. EDWIN J. CONGAR
Dunlap No. 321. Died April 26, 1904

BRO. GEORGE W. CULVER
Meteor No. 283. Died August 8, 1903

BRO. EBENEZER R. DANFORTH
Olive Branch No. 38. Died August 1, 1903

BRO. MARTIN ESHELMAN
Bridgeport No. 386. Died May 5, 1004

BRO. EMIL ESPEN
Chicago No. 437. Died December 30, 1903

BRO. L. W. FRAMHEIN
Waldeck No. 674. Died May 11, 1904

Our Fraternal Dead

ILLINOIS

BRO. GEORGE O. FRIEDRICH
George Washington No. 222. Died February 3, 1904

BRO. WILLIAM JUDAH FRISBEE
T. J. Pickett No. 307. Died September 26, 1903

BRO. FRANK A. FROST
Shabbona No. 374. Died July 4, 1903

BRO. JOHN HARPER FULTON
Robinson No. 250. Died April 7, 1904

BRO. B. F. FURLONG
Blazing Star No. 458. Died April 25, 1904

BRO. JOHN A. GAAR
Thomson No. 559. Died June 18, 1904

BRO. S. M. GENTRY
Farina No. 601. Died July 28, 1903

BRO. W. A. GOODRICH

Mound No. 122. Died March 21, 1903

BRO. MILES AUSTIN GRAFTON
Lewistown No. 104. Died November 8, 1903

BRO. RICHARD JOHNSON GREGSON
J. L. Anderson No. 318. Died January 15, 1904

BRO. JAMES E. HARDY
Ashlar No. 308. Died November 18, 1903

BRO. WM. HARTZELL
Chester No. 72. Died August 14, 1903

Our Fraternal Dead

ILLINOIS

BRO. URIAH M. HUMBLE
John D. Moody No. 510. Died February 9, 1904

BRO. DAVID M. HOUGHTLIN
Jerseyville No. 394. Died April 23, 1904

BRO. JOHN IGOU
La Moille No. 383. Died May 9, 1904

BRO. SETH L. JENKINS
Rockton No. 74. Died January 24, 1904

BRO. MARVIN LUTHER JACKSON
Oak Park No. 540. Died April 18, 1904

BRO. SAMUEL G. JARVIS
A. T. Darrah No. 793. Died January 4, 1904

BRO. RICHARD A. JEFFERY
Golden Rule No. 726. Died June 29, 1904

BRO. COIT H. KENDALL
Lounsbury No. 751. Died February 21, 1904

BRO. LOUIS KISTLER
Evans No. 524. Died May 27, 1904

BRO. ALMERON K. KNAPP
Minooka No. 528. Died March 5, 1904

BRO. JOHN KUMMER
Herder No. 669. Died November 30, 1903

BRO. WM. H. LATHROP
Newton No. 216. Died December 7, 1903

ii

Our Fraternal Dead

ILLINOIS

BRO. WILLIAM T. LEWIS
Buda No. 399. Died September 20, 1903

BRO. R. L. LINDLEY
Harbor No. 731. Died April 29, 1904

BRO. JOSEPH S. LIVELL
Oquawka No. 123. Died February 27, 1904

BRO. HENRY M. LOVELL
Onarga No. 305. Died September 18, 1903

BRO. LOTON S. MANVILLE
Amity No. 472. Died July 7, 1903

BRO. WILLIAM MASON
Cedar No. 124. Died December 17, 1903

BRO. STILLMAN ELLISON MASSEY
Cedar No. 124. Died April 3, 1904

BRO. SAMUEL MARSHAL
lola No. 691. Died July 4, 1903

BRO. JAMES K. P. M'CULLOUGH
Tower Hill No. 493. Died July 18, 1903

BRO. R. L. M'REYNOLDS
Roseville No. 519. Died August 3, 1903

BRO. ROBERT W. MELIN
Annawan No. 433. Died August 2, 1903

BRO. WILLIAM H. MEYERS
Versailles No. 108. Died February 14, 1904

[

Our Fraternal Dead

ILLINOIS

BRO. WILLIAM H. MILLER
Horeb No. 363. Died January 18, 1904

BRO. WILLIAM C. MORRIS
Onarga No. 305. Died October 16, 1903

BRO. FREDERICK MYERS
Charter Oak No. 236. Died October 26, 1903

BRO. JAMES MUSSER
Orangeville No. 687. Died November 23, 1903

BRO. RICHARD L. ORGAN
Carmi No. 272. Died July 24, 1903

BRO. FRED S. ORTON
Elgin No. 117. Died February 12, 1904

BRO. HY. C. PEECK
Clay No. 153. Died February 15, 1904

BRO. JOSEPHUS PIRKE
Chenoa No. 292. Died January 10, 1904

BRO. HENRY REED
Pleiades No. 478. Died November 1, 1903

BRO. L. W. REED
Central No 71. Died March 6, 1904

BRO. WILLIAM REID
Apollo No. 642. Died June I, 1904

BRO. CHARLES S. RICHARDS
Bunker Hill No. 151. Died March 2, 1904

Our Fraternal Dead

ILLINOIS

BRO. GEORGE H. SANDS
Chebanse No. 429. Died June 17, 1904

BRO. GEORGE R. SCHAMP
Raven No. 303. Died July 11, 1903

BRO. ARTHUR E. SCHAFFER
Plymouth No. 286. Died May 2, 1904

BRO. FRANKLIN B. SIMPSON
Fidelity No. 152. Died January 25. 1904

BRO. WILLIAM SKELLY
Lexington No. 482. Died October 23, 1903

BRO. FRANK HUXLEY SMITH
Sycamore No. 134. Died November 23, 1903

BRO. M. H. SMITH
Manchester No. 229. Died October 8, 1903

BRO. GEORGE W. STALEY
Kaskaskia No. 86. Died January 16, 1904

BRO. FRANK STEWART
Hibbard No. 249. Died July 7, 1903

BRO. MATTHIAS B. SWEEGLE
Fairview No. 350. Died March 11, 1904

BRO. SEIGEL DELANO TALCOTT
Waukegan No. 78. Died December 29, 1903

BRO. JESSE TAYLOR
Vermont No. 116. Died October 2, 1903

Our Fraternal Dead

ILLINOIS

BRO. SAMPSON TAYLOR
S. D. Monroe No. 447. Died August 2, 1903

BRO. WILLIAM F. TENGES
Eureka No. 69. Died April 29, 1904

BRO. JONAS THON
Clay No. 153. Died October 10, 1903

BRO. THOMAS FOSTER TIPTON
Bloomington No. 43. Died February 7, 1904

BRO. LEWIS L. WADSWORTH
Garden City No. 141. Died January 26, 1904

BRO. JOHN S. WALKER
Alpha No. 155. Died April 5, 1904

BRO. EDWARD A. WARD
Horicon No. 244. Died February 15, 1904

BRO. DANIEL WESTERVELT
Home No. 508. Died February 27, 1904

BRO. DAVID MARTIN WIEDER
Paris No. 268. Died September 22, 1903

BRO. JAMES B. WHITE
Morrisonville No. 681. Died July 28, 1903

BRO. JOSIAH W. WILLIS
Woodhull No. 502. Died December 13, 1903

BRO. JOHN S. WOLFE
Western Star No. 240. Died June 23, 1904

BRO. PHILO H. ZIEGLER
Bureau No. 112. Died February 19, 1904

Our Fraternal Dead

OTHER GRAND JURISDICTIONS

BRO. CHARLES CLARENCE WARNER

k.W. Deputy Grand Master, Arizona. Died June 13, 1904

BRO. GEORGE E. DODGE

Past M.W. Grand Master, Arkansas. Died February 6,

1904

BRO. GEORGE T. COOPER

R.W. Deputy Grand Master, Colorado. Died June 20,

1904

BRO. WILLIAM FORSYTH BYNUM

Past M.W. Grand Master, Florida. Died May 9,

1904

BRO. WARREN TYLER

R.W. Junior Grand Warden, Florida. Died December 21,

1903

BRO. JOSEPH ALVAH LOCKE

Past M.W. Grand Master, Maine. Died April 21,

1904

BRO. ARTHUR M. CLARK

Past M.W. Grand Master, Michigan. Died October 26,

1903

BRO. SAMUEL WORD

Past M.W. Grand Master, Montana. Died September 24,

1903

BRO. ROLLAND HECTOR OAKLEY

Past M. W. Grand Master, Nebraska. Died February 2,

1904

BRO. CHARLES BELCHER

Past M.W. Grand Master, New Jersey. Died February 20,

1904

BRO. LIEUT. COL. CHARLES J. MACDONALD

Past M.W. Grand Master, Nova Scotia. Died October 12, .1903

BRO. S. STACKER WILLIAMS

Past M.W. Grand Master, Ohio. Died April 3,

1904

BRO. CHARLES ALBERT FISHER

M.W. Senior Grand Warden, South Dakota. Died July 9,

1904

BRO. A. J. ROSE

Past M.W. Grand Master, Texas. Died December 13,

1903

BRO. MYRON J. HORTON

R.W. Junior Grand Warden, Vermont. Died January 7,

1904

BRO. GABRIEL BOUCK

Past M.W. Grand Master, Wisconsin. Died February 21,

1904

BRO. WILLIAM H. H. FLICK

Past M.W. Grand Master, West Virginia. Died June 7,

1904

APPENDIX.

PART 1.

Report of the Committee on
Masonic Correspondence

1904

INDEX.

PAGE

Alabama 17

Arizona 26

Argentine Republic 62, 75, 89

Assessments? 84

Against Masonic policy 95

A new liquor problem 93

Argentina G. Or. (Blue Rite) 114,

180, 223
Additional clandestine lodges .... 130

Another point of contact 147

A serious inquiry 154

A "frost" 155

A perfect plan with an if 158

An impression — "Ancients" 159

A recoil 159

Australasian grand lodges 166

"Affirm" or "declare" insufficient. . 177

A reformation 179

A nullity — stuff's off 183

An "Encyclical" 190, 192

A graye question 192

A new method 193

American Masons abroad 202

Attending church service 207, zyy

Asylum per capita 218

Alpina Gr. Lodge 225

African Lodge 232

Anderson's Constitutions (1723) ... .236

A survival 251

Ancient history 273

A close shave 292

"A strange decision" 293

A slump in the market 301

A live bishop 305

A note of warning 308

Avouchment 322

A Bedouin ? 336

Ante-election offences 17-19

British Columbia 31

Brotherly supervision 33

Blood-letting process 37

Bad law 42

Bromwell, tribute to 44

Brazil, Gr. Or. of 67, 138, 240, 271

page

Belgium 81, 132, 317

Blackballs and paper ballots 117

Ballot in Great Britain 103

Belgium, Gr. Or. — Kruger's letter.. 132

Brevet rank 149

Birthright 149

Benevolent assimilation (liquids) ... 145

Blood thicker than water 150

Boodlers (Missouri) 166

Burial rites not for F. C 171

Ballot on work by courtesy 178

Balls and cubes 1 78

Built on dissent 233

Blown in the bottle 244

Ballot — abuse of power by W. M..330
Big fees for dispensations 333

c

Constructive treason 18

Costa Rica 22 75,

81, 131, 219, 223, 258, 267, 271, 275

Crozier, Henry C. — letter 24, 229

California 35-36

Canada 41

Colorado 43

Connecticut 49

Corner-stone 62

Curbing grand master 72

Candidates, How many at once. .80, 83

Charter — where hung ? 8%

Can't shirk its errors 86

Conservatism and reactionism 100

Charity (illustration) no

Curtain raiser m

Cipher (official) no, 240

Ciphers ....115 140, 210, 217, 219, 240

Centennial history 120

Can dues of dead be remitted 129

Collective ballot ....129, 160, 268, 279

Circus feature . . 135

Clandestine Masons 143

"Crowned" 141

Certificates Gr. L 143

Chameleon of the chaparral 149

China, new lodges in 144

Charter, The — discussion. . 159 216, 217
Cuba 1 66, 197, 202

Index to Correspondence.

Criticism of Illinois 191

Cosmos — recognition withdrawn. 197, 213

Class legislation 203

Clearance 207

Church going as an advertisement. .220

Clean up the rolls 224

Censorship of correspondence. 224, 253

Cerneauism 230, 234

Clandestinism 230

Charter not revoked (African) ... .232

Can call any one to chair 250

Cannot sub-let to Eastern Star 250

Curios 251

"Church parades" 258

Centennial 266

Calling off — day to day 283

Charges don't affect rights 283

Corner-stones — "frame buildings". ..289

Calls us down 303

Cargo of salt 304

"Concise History" (Gould)... 303

Concurent jurisdiction 311-312

Concurrent jurisdiction 311-312

Corporate lines 312

Charities for orphans — which ? 326

Dedication of rented hall 269

Dwarf eligible 310

Day of Atonement 329

District G. L. of Hong Kong 265

Egypt 23, 25j 70, 139,

181, 228, 319, 338

Eastern Star 27, 28, 37

Entrenchment in ignorance 48

England 64

Electioneering 74

Eastern Star Home — discussion 95

Escort to commandery 119

Echo 141

English visitors and ritual 144

Egyptian Rite of Memphis 214

Ear trumpet 216

Egypt, Gr. Or. of (Memphis Rite) .

229, 230
E. A.'s all rights of membership. . .281
"Emulation Workings" 281

Dimitted when vote is taken 17, 69

District deputies 33, 34 157

Discussion 46

Delaware 52

District of Columbia 54

Decisons 74, 89, 189

Dispensations to move 75

"Dummy"? 78

Discussion

22, 93, 95, 108, no, in, 112, 113
124, 129, 153, 159, i7o; 199, 202,
204, 210, 213, 248, 253, 271, 295,
309. 325. 33S-

Dimits — charges 85

Defective ballot-box 118

Domicil by declaration 108

Disability of grand master — When?. 162

Does removal vacate office? 166

Dual membership 186

Derelict (non-conforming) 202

Dynamite (ritual) 202

Depriving of representation 219

Degree peddlers (Cerneau) 235

Drummond on landmarks 236

Duress indefensible 242

Deleting a name 257

Fraternal thumbscrew 29

"Free of the guild" 31, 32, 34, 310

Franchises held up 38

Funeral honors 39

Free to choose home 52

Fairs 62

Fees for dispensations

Florida 67

Fourth of July 205

False pretenses 234

Fees — short circuit experiment 243

Funeral processions 283

Five years' limit 242

Gift, a munificent 36

Georgia 71

Guillotine for poverty or perversity. .76

"Gracias false todo" 77

Got its foot in it 88

G. Or. Argentina (blue rite) 114

Grand Secretary emeritus 136

Grand lodge certificates 143

Guessing 155

Guarantee of religious freedom. ... 164

"God made that man" 167

G. L. of Victoria 180

Index to Correspondence.

PAGE

Gatterdam case, The 190, 319

G. L. of Washington i94; 272, 295

"Godless grand orients" 201

G. L. of Scotland 207

G. O. Hayti 213, 258

G. L. Ignacio Ramerez 223

G. L. Alpina 225

"Gurney resolutions" 234

Glittering generalities 235

"Good Little Boy" 275

G. L. Washington — discussion 295

Gave up the job 298

Gould's "Concise History" 303

Gift enterprises 331

H

Healing 21, 199

"Home" and Orphanage 69

Hitting the nail on the head 83

"Homes" vs. Masonic plan 88

Height of pillars 91, 98

"Home" drawbacks 109

"How he do enjoy himself" 146

Honorary past master 148

Home per capita 195, 212, 285, 293

High private in the east? 198

Healing — discussion 199

Hughan on landmarks 226

High Rite bodies 233

Home for whole families 246

Hong Kong, Dist. G. L. of 265

PAGE

Initiation of a lewis 206

Irregular work 208

Irregularity cured 23 1

In leading strings 253

Illegitimacy 254, 324

Increased taxation 286

Ipse dixit 289

Irregularly made 324, 337

Illinois Masons buried (Cal.) 40

Institutional charity irrelastic 168

Interjurisdictional reciprocity 279

In the wood-pile 228

J

Joint installation 28

Jurisdiction 160

Jurisdiction perpetual 278

Jurisdiction over profanes 320

Jurisdiction, original 334

Jurisdiction, Trial — discvission 335

K

Kansas 1 04

Kansas Masonic Home 109

Kentucky m6

Knights of Pythias 288

I

Irregularities don't attaint work. 18, 324

Irregular visitors 55

Increase of clandestine lodges 53

Insane — -illegally suspended 60

Improper publications 66

Idaho 79

Indiana 83

Illinois appeal reports 88

Indian Territory 89

Iowa 91

Inconguity 99

Ireland 101

Illinois code on life membership. .. .106
Incompetent and officious secretaries. 107

Imperial policy 109

Innocent victim 150

Immemorial lodges 204

Life membership 38, 104

Liquor problems 46, 74, 79,

93, 160, 171, 216, 238, 284, 317 322

Law-abiding saloonkeepers 115

Louisiana 120

Lynchings and social ostracism 120

Limiting term of grand master. ... 122

Logical one-hoss shay 158

Let no taxable man escape 180

Landmarks rest alike on all 194

Liquor legislation 217

Landmarks 226

Lost a foot (still eligble) 238

Lewis and Clark Exposition 243

Licensing Act (Scotland.) 263

Lodge of Sorrow 278, 298, 326

Lodge on wheels 298

Louisiana Scottish Rite lodges 308

Law of appeals 310

Index to Correspondence.

M

PAGE

Maim — can he advance 20

Masonic Home 21, 64, 90

Mexico 62

Mexican Masonry 68, 200

Masonic trials and civil courts 74

Massachusetts Departure 82,

233. 294
Mileage and per diem equitable. .. .92

Master's Reliance 127

Maine 1 28

Maryland 136

Morgan excitement 136

Massachusetts 141

Massachusetts or Pennsylvania —

which ? 142

Michigan 147

Mexico open territory 151

Memorial record book 151

Minnesota 152

Mississippi 1 57

Missouri 162

Missouri "Cripple Law" 165

Montana 169

Montana pioneers 172

Masonic Home up their sleeve 179

Marching flag 181

May suspend an officer 183, 184

Must give or not receive 186

Master and Wardens absent 198

Masonic chaos 214

"Master's Part" 227

Misinformation 232; 317

Masonry as an ad 280

Mexican invasion of Texas 290

Master's right to represent lodge.. 31 7

Masonic fairs 331

Mother Grand Lodge of England. . .338

N

Non-affiliates 28

No innovation (!) 112

No taxation (?) for home 73

No man or body of men can, etc. ..128

No corner-stone on Sunday 164

Not free of the guild 168

New ground for dispensation 170

No ballot on waiver (!) 170

Nevada 182

New Brunswick 185

New Hampshire 186

New Jersey 1 93

PAGE

New Mexico 196

Negro lodges 201

New South Wales 205

New York 209

North Carolina 216

Nonage 216, 311, 316

Nova Scotia 220

Next sprout 225

Not the parent G. L 231

Needs nothing new 249

No work by courtesy 249

N. 1'. D. — an offence? 257

No examination of M. Ms 268

No Masonic standing — discussion. ..325
Name no lodge for living person... 334
Narrowing definition — discussion ...248
New Zealand 265

"Over Simpkins' Store" 48

Objection before the ballot 53

Only two grades of offences 77

Objection — when to be made 84

Objection to visitors 85

"Our Ancient Brethren" again 99

Ostentatious church-going 164

Objection to advancement 164

Olive branch and thumbscrew 180

Ohio 224

Original — the grand lodge plan. 236, 259

Oklahoma 237

Opened on first degree 237

Oregon 242

Objection 250

Objection to installation 268

O. E. S. unknown 269

"Old York parchment" 322

Orphans — institutional charity 326

Orphan children 332

Original trial jurisdiction 334

Pre-election offences 17, 19

Physical fitness ....32, 42, 46, 170,
177, 194, 198, 224, 271, 283, 317, 324

Perplexities of visitors 55

Petition from Tientsin, China 56

Preparation room address 59

Proposed exclusion of wardens 65

Proper domain of ballot So

Peace reigns in Idaho 82

Index to Correspondence.

PAGE

Paying rent for Eastern Star 96

Preston-Webb work 1 1 1

Plan of cipher — discussion 113

Porto Rico 114

Perfection, Rite of 124

Pardoning power — discussion 129

Paraphernalia 156

Physically ineligble E. A., Status?.. 160

President Roosevelt 169

Pathetic 182

Physical examinations 194

Plurality of makings 194

Past Master's "degree" i96f 278

Public installations 197

Private may occupy East 199

Purging the list 206

Pinney Grand Lodge (clandestine) .

214. 334
Plurality of candidates. .. .216^ 266, 329

Prince Hall 228

Puts them up in nests 243

Pennsylvania 245

Prince Edward Island 256

Perfect Youth question 270

Publishing returns 272

Perpetual jurisdiction 278

Post burial service 287, 288

Public grand honors 304

Powers of Grand Master 310

Paid by the year 332

Prerogative doctrine 338

Q

Queensland G. L 102, 261

Qualifications of applicants 241

Quebec 256

R

Read and write, must 23

Restorations of Masonic Geometry

and Symbolry 47

Roman Catholics 74

Representative character impaired. . .73

Right of dimission 75

Regulations z's. equity 80

Resources of our inkhorn 98

Relief work 107

Revolutionary change 117

Rite of Perfection — discussion 124

"Registration list" 135

Reciprocity and waiver — discussion. 153

PAGE

Rheumatism 172

Rotation in office 179

Respect rights of others — discussion. 21 3

Royal Standard Lodge 221

Right of lodge to try 239

Roosevelt (letter) 247, 316

Repression — Discussion 253

Revised code, Scotland

Right to lecture candidates 324

Raised non-affiliates 326

Recognition of hybrid bodies 333

s

"Scandalous" 3°

Scotch and "Scottish" 35

Scotch work and Scittish Rite 36

Scottish Rite 71, 235, 244

Slander of Mason's daughter 74

Signs in balloting 82

Step in right direction 90

Small, weak lodges 92

Seven members entitled to vote.... 95

Scottish Rite work 121

Smoking in lodges 163, 164

Summons in trials — who issues?. .. .165

Spurious lodges — precaution 187

Social Dist. Gr. Lodges 193

Scottish Rite chestnuts 203

Sanatorum for Consumptives 210

Secret objection 238

Spurious body 240

Shrine 244

Setting us right 255

Stanstead Centennial 257

Scotland and W. Australia. .. .259-261

Scotland 260

Seven candidates only 266

South Australia 266

South Carolina 268

South Dakota 273, 277

"Sister Order" , 280

Some bad English models 306

Semi-centennial (Wash.) 314

Supreme Councils without authority. 320

Supplementary or standing 323

"Star" carpet and the altar 329

T

Territorial jurisdiction 19

Trial commission 57

Taking toll of contributions 64

Index to Correspondeiwe

PAGE

Time-saving — Illinois plan 76

The novelty of the proceedings 91

Term "Masonry" in business 97

"The Masonic" 116

Troublesome questions 139

Tom Marshall's mot 143

The parsons 145

Ten mile rule 161

The higher blessedness of giving... 174

The "strawberry mark" 175

The second thought 176

The solar plexus 176

Third side of question 199

Tennyson 205

Temple and castle building. .. .218, 242

"Time dimit" 223

The noblest Roman 226

The tail — or the dog? 231

Thumb off 238

Territorial jurisdiction of G, Ms.

(?) 239

True charity 249

The Pennsylvania incident 252

Tiler can vote 274, 319

The odd duplicty 276

Tasmania 281

Tennessee 282

Texas 288

The lost paper 294

Tweedledum, etc 330

u

Universality of Masonry 51 203

Untimely reconsideration 58

Unmasonic election — remedy 84

Unconstitutional constitution 154

Universality — discussion 204

Un fraternal red tape 227

Utah 297

Upton on Supreme Councils 320

PAGE

Vistor's notice 50

Visiting Entered Apprentices. .. 59, 268

Vacant seat ! 116

Visitors — Masonic information ....179

Vermont 300

Victoria 305

Virginia 307

Visiting Scottish Riters — discussion. 309

w

Waiver, Declined to request 18,

257, 278, 300, 337

vVaive Lodge may 18

Waiver by Grand Master 52, 279

Wisdom from experience 81

Waiver over profanes — discussion. . 108

Widows' and Orphans' Home 117

Western Australia, G. L. of... 156,

161, 166, 213, 219, 259, 261

Waiver not permitted 160

When is he a past master? 165

With a string to it 167

World's Fair year 167

Waiver cannot be lumped 177

Without spot or blemish 196

Wilson, Darius 214, 234

Wheel within a wheel 222

Who may preside 241, 316

Why segregate 244

Witnesses, Competency of 274

Washington 314

West Virginia 323

Wisconsin 328

Wisconsin plan 333

Wyoming 336

Work by courtesy 337

Y

Yellowstone Park 160

Valle de Mexico (G. L.).26, 47, 81,

149, 166, 200, 212, 223, 275

REPORT

OF THE

Committee on Masonic Correspondence

To the M. IV. Grand Lodge of Illinois, A. F. and A. Masons:

We have reviewed in the following pages, the proceedings of fifty-three
North American grand lodges, one of them for two years ; four of the
recognized Australasian group, and three of the British Islands — sixty in
all. Of the four North American grand lodges missing from our list, we
lack the proceedings of Manitoba and Rhode Island; Arkansas, now doing
penance for temple-building, is holding only biennial sessions and so sent
out no proceedings last year, and while we have the proceedings of the
Grand Lodge of Cuba, they are a sealed book to us, being printed in the
Spanish language ; and though to "walk Spanish" was sometimes one of
the enforced accomplishments of our boyhood days, we have never learned
to speak or read the language. British Columbia, New Hampshire and
Nebraska find a place in the reviewed list, but their proceedings for 1904
reached us too late to be included.

So, too, Oregon and Washington find a place, but their proceedings
for the current year have not yet been received; the delay with the latter
being due, we are sorry to learn, to the feeble health of Grand Secretary
Reed, requiring office assistance probably unable to turn off work with the
rapidity that has characterized the veteran grand secretary.

And here we want to save two score or more reviewers the trouble
of correcting us for erroneously stating that the passing of Bro. Jacob H.
Medairy, of Maryland, left Bro. Cornelius Hedges, the oldest grand sec-
retary in point of service, and for overlooking the error when reading
proof, as we found we had done, our attention being arrested by the error

10 APPENDIX— PART I.

<n the page proof, while indexing. Brother Reed is by several years' serv-
ice, the senior of Brother Hedges in the south-east.

A survey of the field traversed during the year shows about the aver-
age out-cropping of questions that have been prominent for a generation,
and which probably will to a certain extent be, like the poor, always with
us ; such as physical fitness ; non-affiliates, what to do and what not to do
with them; the abuse of the ballot; the scope of the right of objection,
and the many minor questions which are inseparable from administration.
The attention given to these questions year after year by reviewers is fre-
quently condemned by the superficial critic as the profitless threshing over
of old straw ; but this criticism overlooks the fact that each year's army
of masters and wardens is in part a new one, whereof a portion of the
recruits have only routine, traditional knowledge, and have given little
thought to the principles which govern in administration. All these must
be trained as best they may, and the only way to do it is by endless repeti-
tion— line upon line.

That there has been in recent years a disposition to relax the rigidity
of Masonic rules is startlingly true as regards some of them. Take for
instance the universaly traditional method of Masonic instruction, when
the instructive tongue reached the understanding and the heart through
the attentive ear, and the eye was neither appealed to by unlawful means
on the one hand, nor through them the understanding itself lost in the
glitter of the spectacular. The year's reading affords abundant evidence
of the extent to which by ciphers and display, that impressive method has
been diluted and displaced.

So, too, with the requirements of the landmark respecting physical
qualifications. A generation ago, with the single exception of Rhode Is-
land, there was not a jurisdiction in this country where the most liberal
construction of the landmark did not fully recognize the requirement that
the candidate should be able to conform literally to all the demands made
by the ritual. The events of the last two or three years indicate that the
unfortunate who is born deficient, or who has been maimed since birth,
will soon be able to supply all that he lacks to meet the interpretation of
the law, at the artificial limb makers, or the crutch manufactory. Essen-
tially, we consider the requirement of such a degree of physical perfec-

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE. 11

tion as will place the candidate on an equality with his fellows, as being
of less importance than some other features of the ancient law ; but we
still think that consideration is sufficient excuse for its being. But the vital
fact is that the law exists, that it is known of all Masons to exist, and that
so knowing they cannot disregard it without weakening the sanctions of
all law, of all obligation.

Much has been recently said, and truly said, of the robbing of Masonry
of its blood in a material sense by the parasitic bodies that have been super-
imposed upon it. But the danger to Masonry is far greater in another
direction than in the mere loss of material support. It lies in the weaken-
ing of all the sanctions of the fundamental law which has defined and
differentiated Masonry from all other human institutions; that law to
whose unchangeableness we are all doing constant lip-service, while at the
same time we unprotesting see it honey-combed out of its identity.

Generally from mere habit, or from ignorance, we call these organi-
zations known to be composed of Masons, Masonic bodies while we know
them to be no part of Masonry; and our young Masons, hearing this, go
into them with the expectation of finding something of genuine Masonry
that they have not obtained in the Symbolic lodge. These bodies and the
systems they administer have no landmarks, and so upon their threshhold
the brother who enters them encounters a condition well calculated to
make him forget the landmarks of the great fraternity on which they build.
This may not have been the purpose of their organizers, and, we freely
concede, is not the conscious purpose of most of the members of any of
them. But the effect is the same. It is in bodies outside of the symbolic
lodge that brethren first become familiar with printed rituals and printed
ciphers. The infection filters back into the lodge, poisons its membership
with its specious pleas, spreading until we see, as this year's report dis-
closes, one grand lodge after another shocking the Masonic instincts of
every unsophisticated brother by lending its sanction to the heresy of cipher
rituals.

Others, members of bodies called Masonic though notoriously built
upon dissent from the original plan of Masonry ; promoters in grand
lodges of the countenance of their progeny which the landmarks forbid,
lose no opportunity to whistle the idea of the existence of landmarks
down the wind. Being "High Masons" their ideas naturally impress the

12 APPENDIX — PART I.

unknowing mass of their fellow members, and this infection spreads until
the prescriptions of the Charges of a Freemason as to physical fitness, go
the way of other landmarks when the test comes which sets their validity
over against the natural sympathy which men — to their credit — feel for the
physically unfortunate whom they otherwise respect and admire.

We have spoken of these two subjects as illustrative of the influence
of bodies built upon Masonry, yet having no restraints in their organic
law, and whose members too often forget that the organic law of Masonry
is a constraint upon every individual brother, as a part of the conditions
upon which alone he could receive its mysteries ; an obligation which no
subsequent affiliation could possibly lessen, and which no consensus of
Masons, however numerous, can lift from his conscience. No man or
body of men can, in the name of Masonry, lay a Master Mason made such
in a lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, under an obligation inconsistent
by a hair's breadth with that which gave him his Masonic status. No jot
or title of that irrevocable covenant can ever be repudiated or laid aside.

We had designed referring at some length to the condition of affairs
in Australasia, where we are now confronted with the spectacle of district
grand lodges — in one instance with the countenance and support of its
sovereign and independent parent body — seeking to deprive the lodges
and brethren of their obedience by duress proceeding even to the seiz-
ing of charters and lodge property and to suspension of individual Ma-
sons, of the indefeasible right attaching to their existence in open autono-
mous territory in numbers sufficient to form an independent grand lodge,
to determine for themselves, as a majority thereof may decide, the ques-
tion of forming such a grand lodge. We can, however, only take time to
say that it is as morally certain as anything can be that has not been put
to the test, that the grand lodges in this quarter of the world will not re-
spect any attempted deprivation of Masonic rights, either of lodges or in-
dividuals, for no other offence than participating in a movement to consider
the erection of, or to establish a grand lodge under such circumstances, if
it is done conformably to the Masonic law into which the abundant pre-
cedents furnished by the history of Masonry, and far more numerous than
any other, have now crystallized.

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE. IB

We have but a moment left in which to thank Past Grand Master
Jesse B. Anthony, chairman of the New York committee on correspond-
ence, for the use we have made of his valuable tables of statistics.

We beg also to tender anew our grateful acknowledgments to our
brother reviewers for their fraternal courtesies.

Joseph Robbins,

Committee.
Quincy, 111., September 28, 1904.

REPORT

OF THE

Committee on Masonic Correspondence

1904.

JOSEPH ROBBINS, P.G.M.

ALABAMA, 1903.

83RD Annual. Montgomery. December i.

Twenty-five grand jurisdictions were represented, Illinois by Wm.
W. Daffin, of Grove Hill. The grand master (Robert J. Redden) an-
nounced the death of Henry Hart Brown, past grand master, at 66, a
soldier in the Civil war and prominent in state affairs. ( Notice is also
taken of the demise of Past Grand Masters Bromwell, and Browning, and
Grand Treasurer Egan of our jurisdiction.

The grand master reported twenty out of many more decisions ren-
dered, some of which follow :

1. A profane properly petitions for initiation. He is duly elected,
initiated and passed. Before a ballot is taken for the third degree, the
worshipful master hears that the candidate has been guilty of conduct
unbecoming a Mason. He stops proceedings and appoints another investi-
gating committee. The committee learns that the rumors concerning the
conduct of the applicant are true, but the offense was committed before he
petitioned the lodge for initiation. The committee further learned that the
applicant had, six months previously, petitioned another lodge, and that
no action had ever been taken upon this petition.

Queries, (a) What is the status of this party? Is he a Fellow Craft
or a clandestine? (b) Did the worshipful master have the right to pro-
ceed as he did in this case? (c) Can the applicant be tried for this
offence? (d) How should the lodge dispose of this case?

Answer, (a) He is a Fellow Craft, (b) The worshipful master had
the right to proceed as he did. (c) The candidate can not be tried un-
less the offence involved moral turpitude, (d) If the offence involves
moral turpitude charges should be preferred against the applicant, other-
wise the lodge should proceed as in other cases of advancement.

18 APPENDIX — PART I.

2. The worshipful master and secretary of the lodge have no right to
request another lodge to confer the degrees for the lodge, without the con-
sent of the lodge for which the work is to he done.

7. Petition for initiation was presented hy a person who had not been
a resident of the state twelve months. I was asked to petition the grand
master of the grand lodge of the state of his former residence to waive
the jurisdiction of that grand lodge in favor of this grand jurisdiction.
This I refused to do, holding that as the petitioner was not a citizen of
that state, the grand lodge of that state had no jurisdiction over the peti-
tioner.

8. A lodge may enact a by-law making it a Masonic offense in that
lodge for a member to sign a petition to sell whisky. A member, how-
ever, cannot be deprived of the right to sit in open lodge, and participating
in the business of the lodge, for signing such petition, without charges be-
ing preferred against him and having been tried and convicted in the man-
ner prescribed for trials of other Masonic offences.

11. A lodge may waive its jurisdiction over a profane in favor of a
lodge in another grand jurisdiction.

14. When a lodge receives the petition for initiation from a person
residing in the jurisdiction of another lodge and complies fully with ar-
ticle 6, section 13 of the constitution, and the answer received being favor-
able to the petitioner, the lodge may confer the degrees upon the petitioner
and is entitled to the fees, although the lodge having jurisdiction, may
state in its answer that it refuses to waive its jurisdiction and may claim
the fees.

15. A Mason receives a dimit and moves into another state. After
three months he moves back into the jurisdiction of the lodge from which
he dimitted, and desires to again affiliate with the lodge. At a regular
communication afterwards, the worshipful master orders the secretary to
cancel the dimit and declare him a member of the lodge.

Held. That the action of the worshipful master was illegal, and that
the brother was still a dimitted Mason. To become a member of said
lodge, he must petition the lodge as though his dimit was from another
lodge, and his petition must take the regular course.

16. A Fellow Craft is rejected for advancement. At the next regular
communication another ballot is taken on the same petition and he is
elected and the Master Mason degree is conferred upon him.

Query. Is he a legal Mason?

Held. He is, but the lodge conferring the degree is subject to dis-
cipline. Before the rejected candidate was advanced, he should have again
petitioned the lodge, and the petition should have taken the usual course.

17. A saloonkeeper holding a dimit and residing in a state where the
saloon business is a Masonic offence, is not ineligible to membership in a
lodge in this state, only in such lodges as may have a by-law making saloon-
keepers ineligible.

19. A Mason who has been suspended for six months and takes an
appeal, has the right to sit in lodge and take part in the business of the
lodge pending the action of the grand lodge.

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE. 19

We have copied No. I because it is a contribution to the literature of
the question whether a Mason may properly be tried for an offence com-
mitted before he became such. The jurisprudence committee (the grand
lodge concurring) say that the decision should have been qualified by the
statement that "Any member of the lodge could stop the advancement
either by an objection or blackball," and show that it must be further
qualified by quoting from their code the following: "To authorize the
trial of a brother for an offence committed before he was made a Mason,
it must be an offence involving moral turpitude of which the lodge had
no notice at the time the degrees were conferred and which could not have
been ascertained by reasonable diligence and inquiry." The italics are ours.

No. 2 should go without saying.

Concurring in the sensible conclusion of the grand master in No. 7,
which it seems hard to get into a good many Masonic heads, the commit-
tee say that he might have assigned the further and equally good reason
that the petitioner had not been a resident of Alabama twelve months.

The proposition in No. 8 that a lodge may by enactment declare it a
Masonic offence for a brother to sign a petition for the licensing of some
one else to sell whisky, was swallowed by the committee and the grand
lodge without any recorded comment. Verily this is stretching the musty
doctrine of constructive treason to the limit of attenuation. Read by the
light of No. 17, which like No. 8, was approved, the decision becomes
the more inexplicable.

We are glad to note by No. 11 that in Alabama it is not held, as in
some jurisdictions, that the grand master shares with a lodge its territorial
jurisdiction.

Approving No. 14, the committee say that if in answering the ques-
tions referred to, the lodge having jurisdiction gave notice that it claimed
the fees it would be entitled to them. Quite the contrary is the Illinois law
which declares that no financial consideration can be made one of the con-
ditions of a waiver of jurisdiction.

We have in previous reports referred to the fact that lodges in Ala-
bama have no territorial jurisdiction. No. 14 illustrates this. A refusal
to waive jurisdiction by the lodge in whose bailiwick the petitioner resides
cuts no figure unless at the same time it states that it knows of some just
or sufficient reason why he should not be made a Mason. This was ap-
proved, as was another oh the same lines, except that in the latter the
grand master decided that on the presentation of such a petition the master
should at the same time that he orders the secretary to write to the lodge
in whose territory the petitioner resides for information, appoint the com-
mittee of inquiry universally required. From this the committee dissented,

20 APPENDIX — PART I.

properly holding that the petition should lie on the tahle pending the reply
of the lodge inquired of.

The committee also disapproved of No. 19, as being based on the
erroneous opinion that an appeal served to stay the verdict of suspension.
With these exceptions all his decisions were approved.

We have copied No. 16 because in it the grand master properly holds
that notwithstanding the irregularity in the proceedings the brother was
a regular and lawful Master Mason, for the reason, of course, that he was
made such in a regular lodge lawfully at labor. This principle seems to
us equally applicable to a case reported by the grand master, wherein he
took a different view.

A lodge had conferred the Entered Apprentice and Fellow Craft de-
grees upon a candidate with an artificial leg, when a visiting brother called
attention to the fact that was in violation of the constitution. The master
immediately wrote to the grand master, asking what they should do about
advancing the brother to the third degree. The grand master continues :

I notified him to proceed no further, but to return the petition and the
fees to the applicant. Later, I was asked to grant a special dispensation
permitting the lodge to confer the Master Mason degree upon this party.
This I refused to do, but promised to bring the matter before the grand
lodge at this communication. I subsequently received quite a lengthy let-
ter from the party on whom the degrees had been conferred, pleading that
I grant the lodge the required dispensation to confer the remaining degree
upon him. His letter shows that he is a man of superior intelligence and
information. He is a young professional man, a man of sufficient income
to be worth something to the fraternity. He seems to be a man of honor
and integrity, and is highly respected in his community. It is my opinion,
that this grand lodge, with all the conditions connected with this case,
should grant permission for this man to receive the remaining degree, but
with a most distinct and emphatic declaration that it is not to be a pre-
cedent to be used in any other case. I have referred the entire matter to
the committee on Masonic jurisprudence, with a request that it report
upon it at this communication.

The grand lodge adopted the adverse report of the committee on juris-
prudence, who said : "It is contrary to all Masonic law for the party in
question to have even been initiated or passed; and we hold that the candi-
date cannot be raised."

Illinois precedents would justify our grand master in such a case in
saying to the lodge, that whatever punishment might be meted out to it
or to its master for its clear violation of the law, the brother in question
was a lawful Fellow Craft, possessing the same rights and eligibilities as
any other brother standing on that degree, because he had been made such
in a lawful lodge lawfully at labor ; that while the law held a person so
maimed to be ineligible for the degrees of Masonry, it was equally true
that a regular lodge lawfully at labor could not fail to confer the Masonic

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE. 21

status on the subject of work, and that the question of his eligibility to be
made a Mason had been forever foreclosed by the fact that he had been
so made, and could not thereafter be raised as a bar to advancement. We
regret that the Illinois view did not prevail with the committee for the
double reason that we think it is correct and that we fear the position taken
by them will, in view of the hardships of this particular case, strengthen
the hands of those who seek by constitutional amendment to give, as we
think, an unwarrantable interpretation to the law of Masonry. It will be
remembered that last year an amendment permitting the making of a maim
who has an artificial limb or limbs that will enable him to practice and
teach the ritual barely missed adoption by the requisite two-thirds of the
lodges, having been approved by 254 out of the requisite 257, and at the
session under review this was again approved by the requisite vote to send
it to the lodges for another trial.

The committee either holds shadowy views of healing and of the class
of cases to which it is applicable, or have stumbled in their orthography.
In a case where a Georgia lodge near the border (unaware of the repeal
of the Georgia regulation permitting interjurisdictional poaching), had
made Masons of three residents of Alabama, and had petitioned Grand
Master Redden to lift the disability — the denial of the right of visit —
imposed upon them by the Alabama lodge in whose territory they lived,
the committee say :

We are compelled to hold that the three brethren, named above, were
legally made Masons, for the reason that they were initiated, passed and
raised in a legal lodge of Masons and a lodge under a grand lodge with
which this grand lodge is in fraternal relation; but, before the brethren
can be entitled to any of the rights and privileges of Masonry, they must be
healed and pay the fees.

Inasmuch as the committee concede the perfect Masonic health of the
brethren in question the word "healed" seems to be without point, but to
be well heeled is manifestly a necessary prerequisite to the putting up of
the cash without the shedding of which there can be no remission of the
sins of the lodge for which they are vicariously suffering.

The grand master regretfully reported the defeat (the second) of the
proposed constitutional amendment levying a per capita tax of one dollar
for the building of a Masonic home. Notwithstanding the appointment of
a committee of sixty-seven — one for each county — to urge its adoption on
the lodges, as well as to solicit contributions, — 159 lodges voted in its
favor, 220 against, and 9 failed to vote; 259 were required to adopt. He
does not despair of the final establishment of a home, but is satisfied that
some other plan must be tried. This is a compliment to the sober judg-
ment of the Alabama craft. Such judgment is much more likely to be
secured when the subject is discussed and decided in the individual lodges
than when discussed when the lodges are massed together by their repre-

22 APPENDIX — PART I.

sentatives in a grand lodge, subject as larger bodies are to be swayed by
impassioned appeals designed to take the reason captive, and aided per-
haps by an organized claque.

There can be little doubt that in a jurisdiction of the size of Alabama
the old Masonic plan of "out-door relief" will be found much more eco-
nomical than the housing of the needy in an expensive institution. It is
certainly everywhere of wider application.

The Grand Lodge of Costa Rica was recognized on the recommenda-
tion of the committee on foreign correspondence, who say:

We candidly confess that we have entertained doubts as to the pro-
priety of accepting the claims of the Grand Lodge of Costa Rica to recog-
nition, but, on closer consideration of the matter, have concluded that our
doubts should yield acquiescence in the verdict of the majority of our
grand lodges, basing our conclusion upon what appear to be the simple
facts in the case, viz : That a large number of the grand lodges in the
United States have recognized the Grand Lodge of Costa Rica and that
no question that those bodies are holding fraternal relations with an irregu-
lar body, has been raised; further, that it seems to be only a question of the
payment of certain money claimed by the Supreme Council of Central
America as due to itself from the Costa Rican lodges (a matter with which
we have nothing to do), and, moreover, that the said Supreme Council has
not declared said lodges irregular, and indeed, that the supreme body re-
ferred to, has gone so far as to intimate a readiness, if not desire, on its
part, to concede the independence claimed, just for the asking.

With reference to the point that no question has been raised that the
grand lodges recognizing Costa Rica are holding fraternal relations with
an irregular body, it may be said that the same is true as regards the un-
savory Grand Lodge Valle de Mexico. Yet this has not yet induced the
Alabama committee to recommend recognition of that body. As to the
suggestion that the question involved is the payment or non-payment of
certain money (back dues of Costa Rican lodges to the supreme council,)
we are not aware that any grand lodge that has extended recognition to
the alleged grand lodge has given a feather's weight to that consideration,
and certainly the grand lodges that have refused or withheld recognition
have not, nor to the question whether the supreme council was willing to
concede their independence. The only value accorded to the manifesto is-
sued by the Supreme Council of Central America, by those who recognize
it as among the plainest and highest of Masonic duties to discountenance
impostors and dissenters from the original plan of Masonry, lies in the fact
that its claim that the alleged lodges uniting to form the Grand Lodge
of Costa Rica were children of its creation, is undisputed. It is simply an
acknowledgment of paternity by the supreme council, and places the illegiti-
macy of the lodges beyond a doubt.

The grand lodge chartered sixteen new lodges, restored three charters,
forfeited five and received the voluntary surrender of one; proved that its

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE. 23

edict against electioneering is something more than a pope's bull against a
comet by affirming, on appeal, the action of a lodge in punishing two of
its members for that offence ; wisely took steps to become a member of the
Correspondence Circle of the Lodge Quatuor Coronati No. 2076, London,
England ; killed the sensible and equitable proposition to so amend their
law that lodge dues would cease to accrue against a brother during the
time he is deprived by suspension of all lodge rights and privileges ; and
ordered a jewel for Bro. Isaac C. Hall, who was presented to the body
with a record of unbroken membership and attendance for fifty years.

Robert J. Redden, of Sulligent, grand master ; George A. Beauchamp,
Montgomery, grand secretary, were re-elected.

The report on correspondence (224 pp.) by Bro. William Y. Titcomb,
now thoroughly wonted to the saddle, is replete with interest. Eight full
pages are given to the Illinois proceedings of 1902, dwelling at some length
upon the topics presented by the address of Grand Master Moulton, which
he characterizes as a most valuable presentation of all subjects which
claimed his attention. Touching the differences between the grand master
and the committee on jurisprudence, he gives the results reached without
comment.

The Illinois report on correspondence receives flattering notice. Re-
ferring to our comment on the Alabama decision that an applicant who
cannot read and write is not ineligible for that reason, he says he is per-
sonally of the opinon that one who cannot read his petition for initiation
is unsuited for becoming an intelligent Mason.

Referring to the publication of the facts in our possession bearing on
the genesis of the National Grand Lodge of Egypt, he finds the fact worth
mentioning that we give full credit to every fact whether pro or con. We
regard this as the first and highest duty of a committee appointed to assist
the grand lodge in reaching a just conclusion, no matter what may be the
predilections of the investigator.

Inasmuch as in this matter of Egypt Brother Titcomb had published as
his contribution to the literature of the subject, and for our especial benefit,
a letter received by him from Grand Secretary Letchworth, of England,
we fell under obligations to publish for the benefit of himself and all other
inquirers the following most instructive letter from an honorary past grand
warden and a former office bearer in the Egyptian body. Among the let-
ters given in our statement of the status of the Egyptian question, pub-
lished in the Illinois proceedings for 1902, was one from the same source
written July 2, 1897, confessing the ignorance of its author as to the history
of the body and stating that he had forwarded our inquiries to his manag-
ing clerk in Cairo (Bro. T. R. Elsam), asking him to see the grand master
and send us the necessary information. Since then he has — evidently at

24 APPENDIX — PART I.

great pains — informed himself, as will be seen by the following, dated at
Cairo, Egypt, April 12, 1902:

To R. W. Brother J. H. C. Dill, Grand Secretary Grand Lodge of Illinois,

Bloomington, Illinois:

Dear Sir and R. W. Brother : — In reading the proceedings of your
Most Worshipful Grand Lodge for 1901, I studied with great interest the
special report on the proposed Recognition of Foreign Grand Bodies. I
would ask that this letter be placed before your Committee on Foreign
Correspondence, as regards the remarks made on the subject of the Na-
tional Grand Lodge of Egypt {page 12, Appendix Part 1) and offer the
following information.

Prior to the year 1876 there existed in Egypt three bodies, one the
Supreme Council 33d degree, the Grand Orient 33d degree, the Grand
Sanctuary 96th degree. In the course of time these three were merged
into one body, the Grand Orient of Egypt Memphis Rite, at whose head
was a Mason called Zolla.

In the year 1876 the Grand National Lodge of Egypt was formed,
working only the three degrees, and His Highness the late Khedive Ismail
Pasha, became its first grand master and the grand lodge was removed
from Alexandria to Cairo where it has since remained. When H. H. the
late Ismail Pasha was sent away from Egypt, his son, the late Khedive
Huevick Pasha was elected M. W. grand master, a position he held
until his lamented death in 1891, when he was succeeded by our present
M. W. Grand Master, His Excellency, Idris Bey Ragheb, a most worthy
and distinguished Mason. The Grand National Lodge of Egypt was rec-
ognized by the Grand Lodges of England (the mother grand lodge of the
world), Ireland, Italy, Spain, etc., in 1876, and since that date by many
other G. L. bodies including Washington, Virginia and Nebraska of the
United States.

Prior to the recognition of the National Grand Lodge of Egypt by
the Grand Lodge of England, there were in Egypt some seven lodges
working under charters from the G. L. of England, under the rule of the
District Grand Lodge of North Africa (English constitution), but on the
formal recognition of the N. G. L. of Egypt the district grand lodge ceased
to exist, the Grand Lodge of England stipulating that those lodges under
her warrants should be empowered to remain under her control if they so
desired; four of these lodges so resolved, namely, Bulwer Lodge of Cairo
1068, Grecia Lodge of Cairo 1105, Star of the East Lodge 1355, and Zet-
land Lodge of Alexandria 1157, the remaining three lodges returning their
warrants to London.

The greatest friendship has always existed between the G. N. L. of
Egypt and these lodges, in fact a large number of the members of Bulwer
and Grecia belong to lodges under the G. N. L. of Egypt, while the Star
of the East Lodge 1355 is worked in Arabic by native gentlemen, all of
whom are members of Grand Lodge of Egypt in addition; His Excellency
Idris Bey Ragheb, M. W., the grand master of Egypt being a past mas-
ter of this lodge and who for his great charity and Masonic work received
the honour of a past grand wardenship from His Majesty, King Edward
VII, whom God preserve, when M. W., the Grand Master of England.

Many English Freemasons out here, being naturally desirous of re-
ceiving Masonic honours, applied to the Grand Lodge of England for a
District Grand Lodge, whereupon the Grand Lodge of England requested

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the Grand Lodge of Egypt [to state] whether it would sanction this Dis-
trict Grand Lodge, and the Grand Lodge of Egypt at once gave its per-
mission, and G. L. of England granted a D. G. lodge for the existing four
lodges and one to be formed at Khartoum. This in brief is the history of
our grand lodge, and seeing we, on our formation, declared the Memphis
body to be an illegal, unmasonic society and asked the Grand Lodge of
England to support us in so doing, which they did, I do not see how the
taint of the Memphis Rite remains with us.

One of the most respected living Freemasons is a past grand master
of the Grand Lodge of Egypt, a position he would not have accepted had
he have had any suspicion that we were not a perfect and regular body. I
refer to M. W. Bro. John C. Smith, P. G. M. of Illinois; who shares with
H. R. H. the Duke of Connaught, K. G., etc., M. W. G. M. of Eng-
land, and the present G. M. of Maryland, U. S. A., (M. W. Bro. Thomas
J. Shryock) the high Masonic honour in our G. Lodge.

Trusting this letter may do something towards showing that should
your grand lodge enter into Masonic relationship with the Grand Lodge of
Egypt, she would only give one more proof of her desire to spread the true
principles of our craft throughout the universe.
I remain, Dear Sir and R. W. Bro.,

Yours truly and fraternally,

Henry C. Crozier.
Past Grand Warden G. L. of Egypt ; District Grand Secretary Egypt and
Soudan {Eng, Con.) 30th degree; Hon. Member Masonic Veteran
Association of Illinois; Representative of the Grand Lodge, of Ne-
braska near the Grand Lodge of Egypt, etc., etc.

When we first began our inquiry into the genesis of the lodges uniting
to form the Grand National Lodge of Egypt we supposed that at least a
portion of them were of English origin and inasmuch as the new body had
been recognized by the Grand Lodge of England we quite expected to find
that the proportion of such lodges might be found to be a majority of all
and thus sufficient to regularize the others under that rule of law which
makes a majority of the lodges in any open autonomous territory, uniting
to form a grand lodge, the ultimate Masonic authority therein. In this
we have been disappointed. It now appears that all the so-called lodges
uniting to form the Grand National Lodge of Egypt were the spawn of
the Memphis Rite and the subordinates of a grand orient utterly without
authority in Masonry, itself formed by a merger of three bodies equally
destitute of the power to make a lawful Mason and declared by its own
offspring to be "an illegal unmasonic society."

At what particular moment does the magic begin to work which trans-
forms such an aggregation into a grand lodge of Free and Accepted

Masons ?

This question is not fired at Bro. Titcomb, although appearing in a
notice of his report. The solution is open to all comers.

Apart from its demonstration of the illegitimacy of all the lodges com-
bining to form the Grand National Lodge of Egypt, Bro. Crozier's letter

26 APPENDIX — PART I.

shows that if the body ever claimed such sovereignty within its territory
as would warrant any really sovereign grand lodge in treating with it as
an equal, it has become divested of it by its own act in consenting to the
establishment of an English district grand lodge therein.

ARIZONA, 1903.

22nd Annual. Tucson. November 10.

Eight past grand masters and the representatives of twenty-four grand
jurisdictions, the ambassador from Illinois, Artemus Louden Grow, being
listed in both capacities.

The grand master (Francis Marion Zuck) announced the death of
Past Grand Master George W. Cheyney, and Past Deputy Grand Master
John Y. T. Smith, both of whom held their respective offices in 1890.

Grand Master Zuck makes a part of his address the correspondence
passing between his office and the Grand Lodge Valle de Mexico, begin-
ning with his transmission to that body the resolutions of recognition
adopted by the Grand Lodge of Arizona last year. After the usual diplo-
matic compliments had been passed, the Mexican body notified him of the
appointment on its part of a special commissioner empowered to make a
treaty with the Grand Lodge of Arizona, placing their mutual obligations
in black and white. This was going one better than Grand Master Tyler,
of Texas, and Grand Factotum Canton, of the Mexican gran dieta, when
they christened their agreement to work for the mutual recognition of their
respective bodies, "The Treaty of Monterey." But Grand Master Zuck
could not find that the constitution conferred upon him any treaty-making
power, and his letter to that effect practically closed that incident. But
the versatile brother who was named as the special commissioner does not
disappear from view. As deputy grand master of the State of Sonora,
Bro. Alfredo Monteverde is mixed up with a flagrant case of trespass,
wherein two citizens of Tucson, Ariz., who had moreover been recently
rejected by Tucson lodge were made Masons at Hermosillo, Mexico. On
returning to Tucson to vote in 1902, they informed their friends that they
had been made Master Masons at the Mexican town, and that the degrees
had been communicated to them by Bro. Alfredo Monteverde, whence we
infer that that functionary is there held to have the power to make Ma-
sons at sight. Whether this authority is conferred upon its district depu-
ties by the Grand Lodge Valle de Mexico, or came to him as a part of his
Scottish Rite education, does not appear. At all events the Grand Lodge

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Valle de Mexico fathered the responsibility of the making and did not
deny the poaching. With a shiftiness worthy of the departed Canton,
their long time mentor, they pleaded the statute of limitations, pulling on
the complaining Grand Lodge of Arizona its official announcement of rec-
ognition, and showing by its date that the trespass occurred before the
Grand Lodge Valle de Mexico had been recognized by, or had recognized
the Grand Lodge of Arizona. Moreover, their grand master, Manuel Levi,
had notified all the lodges located near the American frontier to be more
careful in investigating the real residence of applicants and asked them to
notify all the frontier American lodges of applications received.

Grand Master Zuck seems to have been considerably impressed with
this diplomatic Mexican solicitude lest some untoward accident should
hazard the future peace of the neighbors who are just getting acquainted,
but not quite enough impressed to forget their predacious past — a mood
fairly reflecting the familiar lines :

Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love,
But — why did you kick me down stairs?

Or, as he expressed it :

Allowing a very large latitude for the contention set up by the
authorities of the Grand Lodge Valle de Mexico, as to date of recognition,
the fact remains that two legally recognized citizens of our territory, who
exercised their rights of citizenship in the highest privilege given to us" as
a sovereign people, within less than one month after their admission by
the Sonora lodge, and that they were rejected material of the lodge in the
same city where they exercised this high privilege of citizenship, is prima
facie evidence of the irregularity and claim of a proper Masonic standing
and can be classed only as clandestine Masons in this jurisdiction.

His demand for a prompt investigation and the expulsion of the "in-
competent and unwarranted material" discovered among the workmen re-
mained unanswered and the new grand master inherited the tangle.

Grand Master Zuck also reproduced in his address a circular letter
issued by Grand Master Fly, of Texas, warning the fraternity against
clandestine lodges planted at San Antonio, Del Rio, Sanderson and Bars-
ton, Texas, by the Grand Lodge of the Federal District of Mexico, and
declaring that alleged governing body a Masonic outlaw. The Grand
Lodge of Arizona promptly endorsed his vigorous language.

Two decisions were reported which serve to call attention to the al-
ready confused condition of the craft mind as to the status of the Eastern
Star organization :

First. Should a Master Mason's lodge, as such, participate in the
funeral ceremonies of a deceased sister of the Eastern Star?

Answer. No. Master Masons can only participate in the funeral
ceremonies of deceased Master Masons in good standing at time of his

28 APPENDIX — PART I.

death ; but all Master Masons should show their sympathy with the be-
reaved brother by their presence and attentions.

Second. In regard to holding joint installation services with the East-
ern Star on Sunday.

Answer. Except for funeral services, the avoidance of labor on Sun-
day must be observed. It is neither consistent with our teachings nor right
for a lodge to work on the Sabbath day.

The confusion to which we have referred seems to us to be likely to
be intensified rather than removed by the language of the jurisprudence
committee in passing upon No. i, to-wit :

We agree with the grand master in saying that a Masonic lodge should
not attend, as such, a funeral of a member of the Order of Eastern Star
when the funeral ceremonies are conducted by that order.

The italics are ours. In justice to the committee the fact should not
be overlooked that the ambiguity did not begin with them. The decision
of the grand master, inasmuch as it inhibits joint installation services with
a profane organization only on Sunday, recalls the case of a master of a
lodge at Coffee Springs, which we observed, without recording, in our re-
view of Alabama, who was brought to book for repeated drunkenness, and
who escaped other punishment than the temporary suspension of his offi-
cial functions pending the consideration of his case, by promising "not to
drink any more whisky in Coffee Springs for a year."

Again we confess to the italics.

A decision involved in a refusal to grant a dispensation for laying the
corner-stone of a Methodist church on Sunday, on the ground that no
Masonic work but burying the dead should be done on the Sabbath day
was disapproved, the committee believing that such exercises are influ-
ential for good. The Illinois law is reflected in the grand master's de-
cision.

The grand master is infected with the new-fangled notion of requiring
a recent receipt for dues as a condition of examination of a strange visitor,
holding that a brother in arrears is "clearly out of standing." Having
laid his foundation by assuming that a brother may be divested of his
good standing without charges and trial, he recommends that "All our
lodges debar visitors who do not exhibit a receipt for dues for the current
year, a dimit less than six months from date, or a diploma, with receipt
for dues attached."

He grapples also with the non-affiliate question with all the zeal and
assurance of a "prentice hand" and is cock sure that the general adoption
of the scheme devised by New York about a third of a century ago, to
prevent a brother from getting out of one lodge until he had gotten into
another, "would soon put an end to non-affiliates." We are justified, of

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course, in assuming that he had not seen the confession of New York that
under the operation of this regulation the evil is was designed to cure had
steadily increased. So, also, he sees in the widely-discussed, less widely-
tried and generally discredited idea of life membership conditioned either
on the payment of a lump sum or on payment of regular dues for a given
number of years, something like a panacea for non-payment of duties. A
simple and more effective plan would be the payment of the dues as fast as
they accrue, by everybody ; but men are not all built that way and never
will be. Neither can every lodge be equipped with that best of all cures
for this perplexing trouble — a tactful and untiring secretary.

On this subject the grand lodge contented itself with giving the fra-
ternal thumb-screw another twist by providing additional penalties for re-
maining in suspension for non-payment of dues for more than one year
without payment of the arrearages, one of which is that dues shall accrue
during suspension ; or, in other words, that as a condition of reinstatement
he must pay for that which his original punishment was avowedly designed
to prevent his enjoying.

The grand lodge recognized the Grand Lodge of Costa Rica on the
ground that it was a body "practicing the methods and rites of Freema-
sonry as prescribed by the Grand Lodge of Arizona ;" the Grand Lodge of
Egypt because it had been officially recognized by several grand lodges
with which Arizona is in fraternal relation ; and sent the request of the
Grand Lodge of Brazil for recognition back to the committee on corre-
spondence, at its own request, for further investigation ; and without inves-
tigation (so far as the record shows) adopted the following:

Resolved, That the Grand Lodge, F. and A. M., extend its greetings to
the Grand Chapter, O. E. S. of Arizona, now in session, and congratulate
the order for its splendid work, with the best wishes for its future pros-
perity.

One new lodge was chartered and one continued under dispensation :
Tucson was selected as the next place of meeting, and the following
adopted as the Arizona definition of eligibility :

"The person who desires to be made a Mason must be a man ; no
woman nor eunuch ; free born, being neither a slave nor the son of a
bond woman ; a believer in God and a future existence ; of moral conduct ;
capable of reading and writing ; having no maim or defect in his body that
may render him incapable of learning the art, and physically able to con-
form literally to what the several degrees, respectively, require of him."

James Sommerville Cromb, of Clifton, was elected grand master;
George James Roskruge, Tucson, re-elected grand secretary.

The report on correspondence (182 pp.) is the third from the hand
of Bro. Charles D. Beeden, and is, more ways than one, a solid paper.
We recall none in which the printer has got in so little "fat." Now if he
will instruct his printer to set all extracts solid, leaving his own text

30 APPENDIX— PART I.

leaded, it will be still more economical for his grand lodge and gladden
the hearts and eyes of all his reviewers. He devotes four pages to our
proceedings for 1902. Quoting from Grand Master Moulton's "ad-
mirable address" his decision relative to the right of the tyler to vote,
he says :

I have often thought that the arrest of business for the purpose of
calling the tyler to vote was entirely unnecessary and an irksome delay,
and should be limited to the occasions when he himself requests the
privilege.

Of the co-operative death benefit associations which environ Masonry
to its hurt, he thinks :

That the day for these peculiar grafts is a short one, for they are sure
to devour themselves. They are not fraternal, and they are not sound as
business propositions.

To the Illinois report on correspondence as a whole he gives almost
unstinted praise, notwithstanding he finds, personally, a very large sized
fly in the pot of ointment. This is (in his own words) :

His attempt to right himself in the use of the term "scandalous" as he
applied it to my resolution which requested the good offices of the Mexi-
can Grand Lodge in the matter of the memorial of Brother Bachelier. He
pretends to class our action in the adoption of that resolution among the
dishonorable and intriguing schemes of politicians who would use an or-
ganization as a "make-weight in civil affairs." And, taking that biased
and extremely depraved view of our act, he again says it "is nothing less
than scandalous," yet he is gracious enough to admit that "the reasons
given by Brother Belden for making these recommendations are most
creditable to his heart." So we are not accused of having vicious intent,
we are not knavas, but simply fools — or that, at least, would be the infer-
ence from his remarks.

To his remark that we pretend to class their action among the dis-
honorable and intriguing schemes of politicians we are compelled to de-
mur as unwarranted by our criticism. The dishonorable and intriguing
schemes of politicians are such as are undertaken not for the public good
but for private profit. We implied nothing of this kind, recognizing as
we did explicitly, that the action of the committee and of the grand lodge
was prompted by the best of motives. Nor is the alleged inference that
because we had acquitted them of being knaves, we regarded them as
fools, because we expressly avowed our faith that had there been present
one of such experience as a reviewer as Past Grand Master Goldwater,
and therefore in touch with the Masonic opinion of the country — to call
their attention to a bearing of the proposed action which they had over-
looked— the action would not have been had.

Brother Belden says that we know that we did not fully understand
the facts, or at least that we did not fully set them forth in our statement.
We find, however, upon turning to our account of the matter as given in

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our report of 1899 (vide Arizona) that we gave all the material facts in
the case and that our statement was in no wise unfavorable to Brother
Bachelier. In the report under review Brother Belden says that Brother
Roberts' call for assistance was a Masonic call. If this fact was made
to appear in the memorial of Brother Bachelier to the grand lodge in
1898, our failure to reproduce it does not militate against our statement
that in our account of it we gave all the material facts. Whether Brother
Bachelier went to the assistance of the officer as a good citizen, or to the
assistance of Brother Roberts as a Mason, his conduct was alike unex-
ceptionable, praiseworthy. Whichever may have been the impelling motive
cuts no figure in determining whether the action of the grand lodge in
response to his memorial was or was not ill-advised.

We have characterized it as scandalous, but in our criticism, we have
not even intimated that either Brother Belden or the Grand Lodge of
Arizona would wittingly do a scandalous act. On the contrary we have
held simple that they lost sight of one of the most important bearings of
their action. We have an abiding faith that both will, upon reflection,
ultimately reach the same conclusion.

'Brother Belden stands with us in support of the common law of Ma-
sonry that a Master Mason is "free of the guild" and may make his
Masonic home wherever he chooses, without reference to his place of
abode, and forcibly says that "if he cannot, and the rule compels him to
apply where he resides, then equally the rule should compel a brother
when removing into another jurisdiction to take out a dimit and join the
lodge near his new residence. The one is the counterpart of the other."

We regard this as unanswerable, but the latter day tendency to increas-
ingly regard a brother simply or chiefly as an object of taxation is re-
sponsible for all sorts of vagaries masquerading as Masonic law.

BRITISH COLUMBIA, 1903.

32ND Annual. Vancouver. June 18.

Eight past grand masters and the representatives of eighteen grand
jurisdictions were present. Illinois was not among the number.

The grand master (E. E. Chipman) was happily able to state that the
circle of grand and past grand officers remained unbroken. Past Masters
T. E. Williams and John Teague had gone on before:

32 APPENDIX — PART I.

"They have just gone over the hill,
Over the hill by the shorter way,
While we toil on to the long road's end,
In the heat and dust. We shall meet some day
At the Resting Place."

Notice was taken of our own dead — Bromwell, Browning and Egan.

Five decisions are reported, three of them of local application only.
The others are :

Question i. Is a candidate eligible for the degrees of Freemasonry
who has lost a part of his forefinger, it having been taken off at the
second joint?

Answer. Yes.

Question 5. Must a dimitted, or unaffiliated brother join the lodge
nearest his residence?

Answer. No.

We quote enough of the grand master's remarks touching No. 1, to
show that the interpretation of the ancient charge is the same in British
Columbia and Illinois :

The ancient charges bear me out in this opinion when they say that a
candidate must be one "having no maim or defect in his body that would
render him incapable of learning the art." As this candidate is capable
of being properly instructed, and is able to conform literally to every re-
quired position, either in receiving or in communicating the several de-
grees of Ancient Craft Masonry, he is, under the law as we have it in
this jurisdiction, eligible for the degrees of Freemasonry.

So, too, his exposition of No. 5 shows that, like Illinois, his jurisdic-
tion holds to the old rule that a Master Mason is "free of the guild" and
may affiliate where he chooses.

Referring to their grand lodge library, now becoming a matter of
pride, the grand master truly says that libraries are not made or purchased
off hand, but are built up, and in this connection he pays a high but merited
compliment to the brother to whose labor its growth is largely due, the
grand historian, W. A. DeWolfSmith.

Too much praise cannot be given Bro. DeWolf Smith for his untiring
exertions, not only in this matter, but for the work he has done in the
field of Foreign Correspondence. Foreign Correspondence is our best
Masonic literature. To a great extent the library and the correspondence
have -been a labor of love with him. As a chairman of foreign corre-
spondence he is recognized in other jurisdictions as one of the brightest
and best, and the Grand Lodge of British Columbia may justly feel proud
of him.

The deputy grand master (C. Ensor Sharp) in his report, thus speaks
of the serious question of Masons giving way to intoxicating liquors,
which had been officially brought to his notice during the year.

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Some recommend expulsion as the penalty and no doubt our duty to
the order as a last resort demands this ; others see a cure in the prohi-
bition of anything intoxicating at the gatherings of the craft, and this is
very general in certain jurisdictions. The objection to the latter is that
you cannot, and I doubt if it is the highest wisdom to try to make men
good by legislation. It must also be remembered that such cases have
occurred only after the offender was made a Mason, for we cannot sup-
pose that any but the sober would be accepted as material. This being so
the principal remedy for such scandals lies in the hands of the craft, in
brotherly interest, in brotherly supervision and protection, and a constant
recognition of the truth that if one member suffers all the body suffers
too. Too often the offender is ostracised instead of being advised and
guarded at times and places when he is likely to fall into temptation.

This is in refreshing contrast to the harsh language and measures
too often indulged in and advised, but we wonder that he did not see that
so much of legislation as prohibits the introduction of intoxicants on
Masonic premises, though it may fail to cure a depraved appetite, is at
least effective in guarding a weak brother "at times and places where he
is likely to fall into temptation."

Besides its routine business the grand lodge considered and adopted
a new constitution ; chartered three new lodges ; postponed for a year the
consideration of a proposition to endow a room or cot in the new general
hospital in Vancouver at a cost of $500, and decided to meet next year
at Rossland.

The Rev. C. Ensor Sharp, of Esquimalt, was elected grand master;
Robert E. Brett, Victoria, re-elected grand secretary.

The report on correspondence (215 pp.) is the seventh submitted by
the present chairman, Bro. W. A. DeWolfSmith, and like its predeces-
sors is replete with interest. Our proceedings for 1902 come under re-
view. Quoting Grand Master Moulton's remarks on the powers and
duties of district deputy grand masters, the statement that "unless so offi-
cially received (as provided by our approved ceremonials), they are there
merely as brethren of the fraternity, and only entitled to such distinctive
recognition and courtesy as would be accorded to them regardless of their
being the representative of the M. W. Grand Master," leads Bro. DeWolf
Smith to ask:

But how would it be if a lodge should decline to "officially receive"
such an officer? Is he prevented from taking charge and correcting its
irregularities because the lodge will not "officially receive" him?

Doubtless it was not the intention of the grand master to indicate that
if the district deputy was officially received he would thereby be clothed
with power to enforce the correction of irregularities. A case reported in
another part of the address Bro. DeWolfSmith had under review
illustrates this, and shows that Grand Master Moulton's views of the
powers belonging to the office of district deputy grand master, as reflected

34 APPENDIX — PART I.

by his acts, are in consonance with the unvarying precedents in Illinois
since the adoption of the district deputy system a third of a century ago.
In this case, where grave irregularities were reported, the district deputy
made an official visit to the lodge in question and made an investigation
under instructions to that effect from the grand master. He exhausted
the power of his office and the additional limited power with which he
was clothed by the instructions to visit and investigate when he had per-
formed that duty. Beyond that he could only recommend, which he did,
viz., that the functions of the lodge be suspended. When he returned at
a subsequent date to arrest the charter of the lodge, he did it not by virtue
of his own official powers, but as the special proxy of the grand master.

Our law says : "Each district deputy grand master shall exercise such
powers and perform such duties as are required by law, or which may
from time to time be delegated to him by the grand master."

The only duty thus far imposed upon him by law is that of report-
ing annually, to the grand master, the state of Masonry and the condition
of the lodges in his district. If the grand master in the interest of desir-
able Masonic usage sees fit to impose upon him the duty of exacting from
a lodge certain formalities which it is too ill-informed to offer unsolicited,
as a condition of accepting an invitation to assume charge of it for the
time being, no one will gainsay his right to do so. If, however, the lan-
guage which he quotes from the grand master seems to imply that the
order of the latter to the district deputy to assume charge of the affairs
of a lodge would be effective only after an official reception had been
accorded, we feel sure that no such implication was intended. Tempera-
ment and training have combined to make General Moulton something
of a stickler for forms, but he is more tenacious for the substance of
things.

Bro. DeWolfSmith quotes several of Grand Master Moulton's
decisions and the reasons assigned therefor, but without comments of his
own, and touches all the salient features of the session. In his appre-
ciative notice of our report on correspondence, he expresses pleasure at
our endorsement of the British Columbia decision that it is permissible
for one lodge to confer degrees at the request of another; quotes from
our review of Indiana on the subject the discipline of masters of lodges
during their official terms, and from our notice of Iowa, or the right of a
Master Mason to choose his Masonic home without regard to jurisdic-
tional lines, and especially urges all brethren who have access to their
library to read our remarks on the recognition of "High Rites" by Ma-
sonic grand lodges.

The following from his review of Maine, confirms what we last
year said in correction of the statement by a brother reviewer that there

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were lodges under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of British Colum-
bia, working in the "Scottish Rite" :

Noting the resolution ordering the printing of a ceremony of installa-
tion "suitable for lodges working the 'Scotch Rite,' " he says he will look
for the work with some interest. We do not know whether Brother
Drummond ever received a copy of the work referred to, but if he did,
he would not notice much difference from the ceremony to which he is
accustomed. He is, of course, aware that in this jurisdiction we have
lodges working the English, Canadian and Scotch works. The expression
"Scotch Rite" was unfortunate, as it might be inferred that some of our
lodges used the work of or were in some way connected with the Scot-
tish Rite. Such, however, is not the case. When the constitution was
printed an installation ceremony as used by the Canadian-working lodges
was introduced. There are some trifling points in which this did not
suit the lodges using the work of the Grand Lodge of Scotland. The
consequence was the insertion of a second, or alternate, form of installa-
tion ceremony.

There are other passages in this valuable report which we would like
to quote for the profit of our readers, but there are a good many grand
lodges yet to be noticed, and we must forbear.

CALIFORNIA, 1903.

54.TH Annual. San Francisco. October 13.

Agreeably to the order of the grand lodge at the session under re-
view, that the annual volume of proceedings be hereafter embellished with
a half-tone portrait, we have this year a portrait of the retiring grand
master, Orrin Staples Henderson.

Twelve past grand masters were present. Illinois was not among the
twenty- four grand jurisdictions represented in the diplomatic corps.

Grand Master Henderson tells the story of his administration in
thirty-six printed pages of somewhat florid writing, filled with poetic
thought but lacking for the most part the crystalizing touch which pre-
cipitates language in really poetic forms.

He reports the death of Edward Myles Preston, past grand master,
at the age of 62, who succeeded to the chairmanship of the committee on
jurisprudence upon the death of Past Grand Master Curtis, in 1893, and
held that position until his death ; and of Nathan Weston Spaulding,
aged 74, who in 1893 resigned the office of grand treasurer which he had
held since 1885. Notice is also taken of the death of distinguished crafts-
men in other jurisdictions.

36 APPENDIX — PART I.

The grand master reports no decisions, having made none that was
out of the beaten track. He thinks that a minimum of not less than $6.00
per year dues should be established, as with a per capita of 95 cents for
grand lodge purposes, and of a dollar for the Masonic Home, lodges can
hardly exist for less. The grand lodge agreed — if we correctly read the
record — so far as to fix such a minimum in any place where two or more
lodges have concurrent jurisdiction, it having been shown that in one place
having two lodges competition had reduced the dues to three dollars per an-
num, a rate held to be insufficient to enable one of them to discharge its
Masonic obligations. '

He recommended that the minimum fee for the degrees be raised to
$50 (from which it had been cut to $30) and of the affiliation fee, says:

The question of an affiliation fee has been raised and in one instance
we refused sanction of a change in the by-laws establishing a $25 affilia-
tion fee. Our belief is that the maximum of this fee should be nominal —
not more than $10, and $5 would be more in keeping, and no fee would
be more Masonic.

The grand lodge killed both propositions — the first without aid from
the committee on jurisprudence, who reported it back without recom-
mendation ; the second with the active help of the committee, who sen-
sibly say :

While we approve all that has been said by the grand master regarding
affiliation fees, we are of the opinion that this is a matter concerning which
each subordinate lodge should remain free to act in such manner as to the
members thereof may appear to be for the best interests of such lodge, and
therefore recommend that the proposed amendment be not adopted.

The grand master commends the management of the Masonic Wid-
ows' and Orphans' Home, and especially emphasizes and approves the
desire of the trustees to lower the expense of maintenance (the per capita
being now $2.16 per annum). Of the tax for the Home he says:

It goes without saying that it would be an exceedingly heavy tax upon
our brethren if the per capita tax should ever have to be raised above the
present $1 per member. Every energy must be bent to keep within this
limit.

The Home is already crowded and cottages are needed, but he thinks
that no efforts to raise funds should be backed by the grand lodge or the
lodges in a way to involve their treasuries. Some timely relief came to
the Home through the munificence of Bro. Morris Simixoff, of Fidelity
Lodge No. 120, of San Francisco, who, over the dinner table to which he
had invited the grand master, tendered the gift of a sixteen-room cottage
with assembly hall, or chapel attached, to be erected on the Home grounds
at a projected cost of $10,000. Before completion the building, which is
thus described, cost $30,000:

In this magnificent building will be a splendid lodge-room and assem-
bly hall, completely furnished by Brother Siminoff, including a magnificent

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pipe organ, with an attachment for playing the same automatically. It
also contains sixteen rooms for aged brethren, which are now a necessity
to house these applicants for our care.

Among the "observations" of the grand master he notes that "dimit-
ted Masons are allowed frequently to visit in some lodges when their
dimits are in age beyond the statutory time," which goes to show that as
individuals men are more liberal than their joint acts would indicate;
that wherever lodges of the Order of the Eastern Star exist there will be
■"found a greater interest in Blue Lodge Masonry," which leads one to
inquire whether the real interest is in Masonry or in that element in the
adjunct that cannot be Masonic; and that our lodges are strongest in true
fraternity away from the cities where other recognized diversions of
Masonry exist. We may add here that in the country where fewer di-
versions of all kinds exist, the lodge means more to its members, but we
say this without any desire to detract from the force of what he himself
says, or from the truth of the following, which is a portion of what he
quotes from Grand Master John Arthur, of Washington, in support of
his position :

"They would be far stronger in many essential respects, if they were
not subjected to a steady drain in the direction of the concordant orders
which take the Craft lodges as their foundation and starting point. Sym-
bolic Masonry is greatly weakened by this blood-letting process. Where
Chapters, Councils, Commanderies, Lodges of Perfection, Consistories and
Mystic Shrines abound, the Craft Lodge is bled at every pore. No sooner
has an intelligent and promising brother received the degree of Master
Mason than he is set upon by the zealous members of these concordant
orders and lured away from his lodge before he has acquired even the
most rudimentary knowledge of Masonry ; and the probability is strong
that he will live and die in almost total ignorance of the history, sym-
bolism, mission and philosophy of this ancient and noble institution, from
which he was prematurely torn by misguided zeal, by the superficial ap-
pearance of greater gentility, and by more sonorous titles and garish uni-
form. The Craft Lodge is thus used as a training school for the various
offshoots of Masonry.

********

"It is the victims of this folly who scarcely ever attend the burial of a
Master Mason ; and it is their bad example and false notions that are
responsible for the sorry spectacle, often witnessed in our cities, of a Ma-
sonic funeral consisting of half a dozen humble, unpretentious, undrilled
and indifferently clad brethren, whose hearts beat true, but whose social
position is apt to convey to the public the impression that Masonry has
lost its old rank and station in the world, and is no longer a brotherhood
possessed of profound mysteries and vast, indefinable power."
********

"One compact organization of Masons, led by the foremost men of the
land, in the early days of the republic, would be infinitely more effective
for good than the widely-scattered fragments of Masonry which now make
such unreasonable demands upon our time and our purses. In unity is
strength ; but I can imagine nothing more hopelessly disunited than our

38 APPENDIX — PART I.

latter-day American Masonry. Having long been a Knight Templar and
a Master of the Royal Secret, and having even presided over a Temple of
the Mystic Shrine, I feel at liberty to express to a Grand Lodge of
Masons my heartfelt sorrow that we ever allowed a childish longing for
feathers and titles to destroy the democracy of our fraternity and convert
it into a system of castes more complex than those of Orrauz and of Ind.
In the country lodges, where this disruption has not taken place, I am
delighted to find the realization of our ideals. There the Craftsmen dwell
together in unity, and Masonry is a potent influence in the cultivation of
brotherly love, in the administration of relief in all proper cases, and in
the inculcation of truth as a divine attribute lying at the foundation of
every virtue."

Among his recommendations are the following:

A regulation holding brethren to strict accountability for non-attend-
ance at Masonic funerals.

A plan to secure the memorizing of the third degree.

A provision to entitle to life membership, with future exemption from
dues, after fifty years of continuous membership.

The abandonment of the appointment of representatives to other
grand lodges, while not refusing to recognize and receive such as are ap-
pointed by them.

Two of these engaged the attention of the grand lodge — life member-
ship, and post-raising examination of Master Masons. A plan providing for
the issue of a certificate of life membershipp upon the payment of a sum
whose interest at six per cent per annum would equal the annual dues of
the member, was referred to the committee on jurisprudence, who found
it defective, in that it did not provide for the protection of the principal
sum paid in ; did not insure that a sufficient sum would be charged, and
did not provide for the contingency of an increase of dues. The commit-
tee therefore recommended its rejection, but in deference to the sup-
posed desire of the grand lodge, presented a plan designed to remedy the
defects of the one discredited, but without recommendation. On the heels
of the adoption of their report, after a lengthy discussion, the following
was adopted by an almost unanimous vote :

Resolved, That this Grand Lodge does not approve of life member-
ship in subordinate lodges.

The committee reported that a resolution providing that brethren
raised to the third degree shall not be accorded the rights and franchises
thereof until he shall have passed a satisfactory examination through its
obligation, was in conflict with the constitution; that they doubted the
advisability of so amending that instrument as to permit its adoption, and
advised its rejection, as they did also another resolution coupled with it
expressing it to be the sense of the grand lodge that each candidate should
be presented with a properly inscribed trowel after having passed such

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examination satisfactorily. The grand lodge concurred. Subsequently
the author of these resolutions offered another providing that such an
examination be made a condition of being permitted to sign the by-laws.
On this the committee will report next year.

We doubt the right of a lodge or grand lodge to require such an ex-
amination. It is the law of Masonry, sanctioned by such long usage as to
place its validity beyond question, that when a brother receives the degree
of Master Mason, he is thereby invested with all the rights and franchises
of the degree, and that of these he cannot be divested except upon con-
viction of a Masonic offence.

A resolution that the grand lodge devise a plan to secure a better
attendance at Masonic funerals went to the committee on jurisprudence,
on which no report was made. If the committee can devise a feasible
plan, consistent with the freedom of the individual, to bring about a con-
summation so devoutly to be wished, they will win plaudits as well as
thanks.

Akin to this scanty attendance is the loose and careless manner in
which the burial rites are often performed. The grand lecturer, reporting
that he had often been pained at this, made the following recommendation
relative to the sprig of acacia :

"And as to the sprig of acacia, when the master takes it in his hand,
and after the master has recited that portion of the service already pre-
scribed, let him say, placing the evergreen upon his left breast, 'we cher-
ish his memory here,' then raising it upwards, 'we commend his spirit
to God,' and then dropping the sprig into the grave, 'and his body to the
earth.' The brethren should follow the master in these movements, ex-
cept that when he deposits the evergreen into the grave they should simply
let their hand fall by their side. Then let the marshal form the brethren
in procession and march slowly one by one past the head of the grave, and
when there arrived, let each in depositing his evergreen first press it to
his left breast, then point it upward and lastly deposit it in the grave. The
adoption of these suggestions would in my opinion add much to the
solemnity and impressiveness of the occasion."

This is very pretty, and it caught the favor of the grand lodge and was
adopted. To our mind, however, it is open to the fatal objection that it
merges into one two distinct ceremonies each of which has existed by its
own right ever since the Masonic burial service had an existence. If the
grand honors are to be retained as a feature of the ceremonies, they should
not be anticipated on the one hand, or diluted by repetition on the other. It
is true that the burial service as a whole, as it is variously given in different
jurisdictions, is a thing of shreds and patches — bearing too often the im-
press of minds ambitious of immortality for their gushing rhetoric, getting
further with each addition from the terse simplicity of Masonry, but
through all these mutations has survived a framework of distinctive fea-
tures which cannot be spared without destroying its identity.

40 APPENDIX — PART I.

The reports of several of the Masonic boards of relief contain matter
of interest to Illinois craftsmen. The San Francisco board reports aid
extended to five cases from this state, amounting in all to $64; the Los
Angeles board an aggregate of $256.70; the Oakland board, two cases,
$58.10; the Stockton board, one case, $13.75, and the San Diego board, one
case, $25. The San Francisco board reports reimbursements by Illinois
lodges as follows: Ridgeway No. 816, $95; Golden Rule No. 726, $10;
Oriental No. 33, $25; Forrest No. 614, $7; the Los Angeles board, Thos. J.
Turner No. 409, $10; Garden City No. 141, $122.50; Friendship No 7,
$35.70; Lincoln Park No. 611, $19; Stockton board, Illinois jurisdiction
(lodges not specified), $13; Stockton reports as due from Illinois (pre-
sumably a loan), $2.

Illinois Masons were buried with the honors of the fraternity, under
the direction of the various boards, as follows :

T. G Newman, of Golden Rule Lodge No. 726, by the San Francisco
board; David A. Johnson, Ridgeway No. 816, and John R. Thompson,
Jr., Austin No. 850, Los Angeles board.

The grand lodge listened to an address by Grand Orator Edward H.
Hart on "Liberty, Equality and Fraternity," which was not only free
from the lurid sentiments which the excesses of the revolution whose
watchword it was have entailed upon it, but so filled with the spirit of
modern, peace-loving altruism that it wafted the orator into the south
at the election the next day ; chartered eight new lodges ; provided for a
committee to report on the condition and plans of the Southern California
Masonic Home, and anent the question whether in fixing anniversary dates
the time should be reckoned from the issuance of the dispensation, from
the ordering of the charter or from the date of constitution under the
charter, decided that the time should run from the issuance of the dispen-
sation, holding that the lodge then begins to exist.

Charles W. Nutting, of Etna Mills, was elected grand master;
George Johnson, San Francisco, re-elected grand secretary

The report on correspondence (177 pp.) is again from the level head
and graceful pen of Past Grand Master William A. Davies, who makes
in somewhat over four pages an interesting examination of the proceed-
ings of our grand lodge for 1902. He quotes briefly on a variety of topics
from the address of Grand Master Moulton, and characterizes Brother
McFatrich's obituary report as "mournfully eloquent."

Referring to the Illinois report on correspondence, he confirms our
judgment that the action of the Grand Lodge of California had effect-
ually blocked the establishment of life-membership without an enabling
act by the grand lodge. He quotes from our remarks on that subject and
also, with approval, on the duty of grand lodges pending the effort to ar-

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE. 41

rive at a more harmonious understanding as to the duration of the per-
sonal jurisdiction acquired by rejection of a petition.

Brother Davies was grand master of California as far back as 1867,
yet one looks in vain in his writings for any sign, save steadiness of judg-
ment, of his aging with advancing years.

CANADA, IN THE PROVINCE OF ONTARIO, 1903.

48TH Annual. Toronto. July 16.

The volume under review is very richly embellished, containing ele-
gant portraits of Grand Master J. E. Harding, and Honorary Past Grand
Masters Thomas White, Otto Klotz, Kivas Tulljy, Wm. A. Suther-
land (N. Y.), and J. J. Mason.

Ten past grand masters were present. The diplomatic corps was out
in great force, no less than forty-six jurisdictions being represented, Illi-
nois by Bro. A. Shaw. Past Grand Master I. H. Stearns, of Quebec,
was formally received as a visitor.

Grand Master Harding announced the death of the grand secretary,
Honorary Past Grand Master John James Mason. He succeeded to the
secretariat on the death of T. B. Harris, the first grand secretary of Can-
ada, in 1874, and held the office continuously until his death, which oc-
curred a month before the grand lodge convened. He was, says his eulo-
gist, Bro. J. C. Morgan, chairman of the committee on the fraternal dead :

"A broad-minded, public-spirited man. a capable leader and enthusiastic
friend of our citizen coldiers, a generous opponent, a devoted, unselfish
friend, a consistent Christian, he will be sadly missed. To us his death
comes with a sense of grievous loss. The best known, the best loved
Mason in this jurisdiction, grand lodge seems scarcely grand lodge with-
out him."

Many Illinois craftsmen will recall Brother Mason 'as more than
once a visitor to our grand lodge.

Past grand officers who had gone on before were, N. L. Steiner, John
S. Tennant, A. B. Jardine, John Creasor, Allan Stayner, W. Mc-
Cabe, Henry W. Day, past district deputy grand masters ; Joseph Hook,
past grand deacon; William Doctor, past grand steward, and no less than
forty-six other past masters.

In view of the approaching semi-centennial of the Grand Lodge of
Canada (Oct. 10, 1905), the grand master recommends that the event be

42 APPENDIX— PART I.

celebrated by the establishment of a fund of $100,000, the interest thereof
to be appropriated for annuities to brethren so sorely afflicted that they
cannot be properly cared for with the present resources of the grand
lodge. The committee on address sympathizes with the grand master in
this laudable desire, but no further formal action was had.

The grand master reported no decisions. On the question of physical
fitness he had hewn to the line laid down last year, which was substan-
tially in accord with the Illinois interpretation of the law. The capacity
to conform to what the several degrees require must be natural, without
artificial assistance.

The grand secretary notes the appointment of S. O. Spring as repre-
sentative near the Grand Lodge of Illinois, in place of Wiley M. Egan,
deceased.

The reports of the district deputies are up to the usual standard of
thoroughness, occupying 249 pages of the printed volume. So detailed and
comprehensive are the reports of visitations and inspections, that we pre-
sume they command more individual readers than any other portion of
their proceedings. They have a distinct value as promotive of the read-
ing habit.

The following from the committee on grievances was approved :

Chaudiere Lodge No. 264, Ottawa, vs. Bro. J. A. Clarke. Misappro-
priation of lodge funds whilst secretary of the lodge of about $67, in the
year 1893. The evidence discloses that Brother Clarke was subsequently
elected master of the lodge, that the audit of the books was intermittent,
and that when the shortage was discovered, the lodge, instead of proceed-
ing at once against Brother Clarke, made an agreement with him to pay
the amount by installments, and because he did not keep his promise, they
then proceed for the graver offence, which your board think they con-
doneJ, and now ask for Brother Clarke's expulsion by grand lodge, after
an indefinite suspension by Chaudiere lodge. We may say Brother Clarke
has paid Chaudiere lodge. Your board are of the opinion and recommend
that Brother Clark should not be expelled, and further, because of the
lodge's condonation of said offence, that Brother Clarke's suspension be
removed, thereby placing the parties as at first, leaving Brother Clarke to
be dealt with later according to his future conduct with reference to his
promise.

This action is in accord with the principle of an approved Illinois
decision that if a lodge accepts from a brother his note of hand in payment
of dues, it thereby places his indebtedness on a purely business basis, and
that the disciplinary power of the lodge cannot then be invoked to com-
pel payment of the note.

The following amendment to a constitutional provision making, as we
infer, a summons to show cause and an opportunity thereunder to show
cause why the same should not be done, a condition precedent to the revo-

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cation of the charter of a lodge, we regard as violative of sound Masonic
principle and defining a power in the grand lodge which ought not to
exist anywhere. We are at loss to see from any standpoint why such a
power is sought to be invoked. The recognized power of the grand mas-
ter to suspend the functions of any lodge until the meeting of the grand
lodge seems ample to meet any emergency :

Provided, that where indubitable testimony is submitted that the lodge
is guilty of maintaining practices contrary to and subversive of the ancient
usages and regulations, grand lodge may, without such summons, proceed
to erase the offending lodge.

The report on benevolence shows that in addition to the $13,585 dis-
bursed from the grand charity fund, the grants made by the lodges
amounted in the aggregate to $10,009.

Five charters were issued and three dispensations granted for n,ew
lodges, and Brockville was selected as the next place of meeting.

J. E. Harding, K. C, of Lindsay, grand master, was re-elected; Hugh
Murray, Hamilton, elected grand secretary.

The report on correspondence (92 pp.) is again by Past Grand Master
Henry Robertson, one of the successful grand condensers of the guild.
He quotes at length from the address of Grand Master Moulton, on the
improper publication of lodge proceedings, and on the question of the
tyler's right to vote ; summarizes the action of the grand lodge in the
matter of institutional charities, and compliments the report on corre-
spondence.

COLORADO, 1903.

43RD Annual. Denver. September 15.

Twenty-three of the twenty-five living past grand masters were pres-
ent, (reflecting the remarkable success of an effort by the senior past
grand master, Henry M. Teller, to round up the whole number at this
communication) as was also the only living past deputy grand master,
Oliver A. Whittemore, who was also the first grand secretary. They
were all called to the east, welcomed by the grand master, and at his re-
quest addressed by Brother Teller. Commemorative of the occasion it
was ordered that a photograph be taken. This appears as a frontispiece
to the proceedings, the group including also the two past grand masters
unavoidably absent ; the grand master, and the grand master-elect, twenty-
eight living individualities. Another embellishment of the volume is a

44 APPENDIX — PART I.

half-length portrait of the grand master-elect, as grand master, James
R. Killian, a work (and subject) of singular form and beauty.

The diplomatic corps was out in unwonted force, representing forty-
nine jurisdictions. Past Grand Master Teller appeared for Illinois, and
as the dean of the corps, responded to the grand master's formal welcome.

Deputy Grand Master J. C. Slack, of New Mexico, was a visitor.

The grand master (Marshall H. Dean) announced the death of
Henry P. H. Bromwell, past grand master of Illinois, a citizen of Col-
orado since 1870, who served the Grand Lodge of Colorado as grand
orator in 1874 and in 1880 was made an honorary member of that body,
to whose memory our own grand lodge paid tribute one year ago. How
he impressed himself upon the Masons of his adopted state we may get
some conception from the tribute paid to his mind and character by Past
Grand Master Lawrence N. Greenleaf, chairman of the committee on
necrology :

He enjoyed to the fullest extent the confidence and esteem of every
community in which he ever lived, for he was in very truth the faithful
servant of the people. His unflinching devotion to the public weal was
prolific of lasting good to this state, and his name will ever be held in
grateful remembrance. His fame as a statesman was gained long before
he made his home among us ; in the vigor of his manhood it had assumed
national proportions, for he had been a kindred spirit, confidant and asso-
ciate, of the most distinguished men of the nation in the culminating and
critical period of its history.

We have often expressed the opinion that he was the foremost Mason
of his time, and we believe we may truthfully add — of the centuries. In
saying this we are fully cognizant of the great merits of others in this and
foreign countries. They comprise an array of master intellects whose
achievements mostly lay in the domains of history, antiquarian research,
jurisprudence, etc. Our lamented brother not only traversed these and
other lines, but opened a way into the true realm of Masonry as projected
by its founders. He it was who caught the gleam of its hidden treasures,
who divined its inmost soul and unfolded its deepest symbolism, who saw
that the great lines of earth marked the Mason's progress, and that the
constellations which gemmed the heavens above him were symbolic and
inseparably connected with the work of the lodge.

It was in the privacy and retirement of his own home that the true
nobility of his character and his great attainments were most apparent. It
was our good fortune to have made his acquaintance in the early years of
his coming to Colorado, which soon ripened into a warm and intimate
friendship, which continued to the end. In recent years, when illness and
the growing infirmities of age confined him more closely to his home, it
had been our custom to visit him nearly every week. These occasions
were greatly enjoyed by each, since in our literary tastes we had much in
common, and were heartily in accord with regard to Masonic history and
symbolism. Often there were gathered together, to enjoy communion with

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this master mind, judges and others of various callings. Then it was that
he would draw forth from an apparently inexhaustible treasure-house of
wisdom those riches of research and gems of thought which were the de-
light and surprise of his listeners. No one, however intimate or howso-
ever long his companionship, ever fathomed the vast extent of his knowl-
edge. It can only be described as all comprehensive, so wide and varied
was its extent. It embraced a knowledge of several languages, ancient
and modern, history, literature, poetry, science, mathematics, geometry,
astronomy, etc. Added to these was a thorough knowledge of the Bible.

Another strong pillar of the temple had fallen suddenly, Roger Wil-
liams Woodbltry, past grand master, who died without warning, from
heart trouble, in his sixty-fifth year.

Born in New Hampshire, educated in the public schools and at the
printer's case, he enlisted as an infantry private in 1861 and was mustered
out four years later as chief of ordnance on the staff of General Terry,
after having participated in nearly fifty battles and skirmishes and being
wounded at Petersburg. The year 1866 found him in Colorado at the age
of twenty-five. He soon devoted himself to journalistic work; took the
Denver Times, an insignificant sheet, and made it one of the most influen-
tial papers of the state. Of the general lines of his life work the grand
master says :

Retiring from newspaper work, be engaged in banking. He was the
moving spirit in the organization of the present Denver Chamber of
Commerce, and its first president, and re-elected as long as he would con-
sent. The present public library of Denver is, however, his greatest mon-
ument, having been its president and most active worker since its organi-
zation, and saw it grow from a weakling to what will soon be one of the
leading libraries of our country.

For twenty-five years his brain and pen were fruitfully active in the
service of Freemasonry. Of one act of his later service the grand master
says :

Reference must be made to the Washington Centennial Memorial Ex-
ercises, held at Mount Vernon, Va., December 14, 1899, which attracted
the attention of the .Masonic world, and has been pronounced the most
important Masonic event of the age. It was the mind of Brother Wood-
bury to conceive the idea and lay out the plan, and his never-tiring hands
carried out the work from its inception here in Colorado, almost to its
completion by our brethren of Virginia and throughout the Masonic world.

His very latest service was the preparation of the c6py and arranging
for the publication of a complete history of this observance, ordered by
his grand lodge.

The grand master reports several instances in which he had granted
permission to lodges to move to new and more commodious quarters. In
Illinois such permission would be held to be superfluous within the centres
named in the lodge charters.

4(3 APPENDIX — PART I.

The following decisions are reported, all of which passed muster :

i. Question — Can a man having a club foot receive the degrees in
Masonry ? Answer — No.

2. Question — Can a lodge receive a petition from a former member,
and ballot upon the same without the petitioner having visited the lodge
subsequent to the reception of the petition, and also before ballot? Answer
— A lodge can receive a petition for affiliation from a former member, and
ballot upon the same, and it is not necessary that the said brother shall
visit subsequent to its reception or ballot.

3. Question — Can the petition of a candidate before being balloted
upon, be withdrawn if the petitioner so requests? Answer — No. A peti-
tion for initiation or affiliation, after having been received by the lodge,
and a committee appointed thereon, must follow the usual course and
cannot be withdrawn.

4. Question — Is a party owning a building and leasing the same for a
saloon, eligible for the degrees, the said party having no interest in the
business except as owner of the building? Answer — Yes.

The downright "No" of number 1 leaves no doubt that the anatom-
ical jurisprudence of the Cripple Creek jurisdiction, is intended to be
right-angled level and straight up and down. Referring to No. 2, we think
the answer would still be correct, on general principles if the petitioner
were not a former member, if the committee of inquiry vouched for him as
a Master Mason.

No. 3 would be in accord with Illinois law if it excepted cases where
the petitioner is found to be manifestly ineligible from lack of residence,
and referred only to petitions for the degrees. With us petitions for affilia-
tion may be withdrawn with the consent of the lodge. t

In view of the interrogative evolution anent the whisky question,
No. 4 makes one wonder why no one has yet inquired as to the eligibility
of a proprietor of a "Keeley Cure" — who flourisheth off the drink traffic —
as we have already wondered whether the moral turpitude involved in sell-
ing corn to a distillery reached a disqualifying degree.

The grand master properly refused to lay the corner-stone of a sugar-
beet factory on the ground that it was not a public structure ; invoked a
dire east wind from the vicinity of Massachusetts Bay, by referring to the
Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania — in connection with its sesqui-centennial
celebration of Washington's initiation — as "the oldest grand lodge in the
United States ;" assumed to formally heal a brother Entered Apprentice
who received the degree in a regular lodge lawfully at labor on that de-
gree and who was therefore sound and whole, in our judgment, although
the lodge was guilty of receiving his petition within three months of a
former rejection, in unwitting defiance of the law of the grand lodge re-
quiring six months to elapse in such cases; called attention to the forma-
tion of "The Henry P. H. Bromwell Masonic Publishing Company," for

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the purpose of bringing out an unpublished work, the manuscript copy of
which was left complete by the distinguished brother whose name the
company bears, at his death, entitled "Restorations of Masonic Geometry
and Symbolry," (towards the expense of which the grand lodge guaran-
teed $2,000) ; and announced that the Washington memorial volume pub-
lisued by the grand lodge, was ready for sale (at the price fixed last year,
$3 per copy).

Ihe grand orator, Charles F. Painter, delivered an address along
obvious lines, excellent in style, and withal practical and well put.

The grand lodge adopted a complete code which had won the approval
of the revising committee and the committee on jurisprudence; referred to
the custodians of the work for future report, a compilation for a monitor
by Past Grand Master Foster, the grand lecturer, designed to reflect only
what is found in standard works and such ceremonials as are authorita-
tive in the jurisdiction, and if made official to do away with soliloquies and
other excerpts from classic or current literature ; authorized the grand
secretary to employ a stenographer at a salary not exceeding $50 a month ;
chartered three new lodges ; and after a full discussion of an oral report
from the committee on correspondence, on the recognition of foreign grand
bodies during which discussion the storm was central over the Grand
Lodge Valle de Mexico, paused a year for breath, re-committing the sub-
ject for a fresh report at that time.

James R. Killian was elected grand master; William D. Todd re-
elected grand secretary, both of Denver.

The report on corespondence (228 pp.) is, as usual, by Past Grand
Master Lawrence N. Greenleaf, who says :

We have not deemed it incumbent upon ourselves to make use of
decisions and other matters as texts for extended comments of our own.
We have given more extracts than usual because they contain matters of
special interest and are worthy of careful perusal.

Whichever plan he pursues, Brother Greenleaf always makes a re-
port which is interesting and profitable.

From his "Conclusion" we learn the character of the oral report made
by him on the recognition of foreign grand bodies, and which led to the
discussion we noted in the proceedings. He says :

Applications for the recognition of several foreign grand bodies are
still in the hands of your committee, but we have been unable to obtain
sufficient information to enable us to report intelligently at this time re-
garding their regularity and Masonic status. We shall make oral report
in regard to the Grand Lodge Valle de Mexico, giving such facts as are
in our possession, though we are not yet prepared to recommend its recog-
nition. This will doubtless elicit further information from those of our
brethren who have recently visited Mexico and who are cognizant of ex-
isting conditions.

48 APPENDIX — PART I.

We regret to miss the original poem for which we have been wont to
look at the close of his report. The most effective of these, "The Lodge
Room Over Simpkins' Store," we reproduced in our report for 1900, from
the Colorado report of 1899. The poem was widely copied by reviewers,
and we thank Brother Greenleaf for letting — despite his own modest
qualities — Brother Eggleston, of Virginia, tell of the inspiration of its
reading in a country lodge in that jurisdiction. The latter says:

Brother Greenleaf treats our review of Colorado very thoroughly and
kindly, and mentions our having quoted his poem, "The Lodge Room Over
Simpkins" Store." This is a good place to tell him the result. Away down
in Tazewell county, Va., a country lodge had a case presented to dire dis-
tress and need. The burden was more than the lodge, with its empty
treasury, could carry. Sadness and gloom prevailed. At last the noble-
hearted brother. Dr. James O'Keefe, called upon the secretary to find our
proceedings and turn to the review of Colorado and read that poem. Be-
fore he had finished tears glistened in several eyes and hands began to go
down into pockets. The widow and orphans were soon provided for, and
a cheerful crowd broke up when the lodge closed.

We repeat the story in the hope that some of our brethren may again
turn to the poem and read it to their own and to Masonry's everlasting
profit.

Brother Greenleaf devotes seven pages to the Illinois proceedings for
1902, which reflect a careful examination of the address of Grand Master
Moulton, from which he quotes at some length on questions of juris-
prudence, on Masonic Homes, and from his strictures on the Pennsylvania
regulation prohibiting correspondence between the lodges of its obedience
and those elsewhere, except through the grand masters of the respective
jurisdictions. He gives also the most salient points in the business of the
grand lodge. Flattering notice is taken of the Illinois report on corre-
spondence, and quotations made therefrom on the right of dimission, on
the powers of grand lodges anent the question of perpetual jurisdiction,
and on the significance of Masonic burial. Touching another and vital
question, he thus refers to our views :

He is the doughty champion of Masonry, "pure and undefiled," and
continues to oppose the claim of Scottish Rite Masonry to the control of
the three degrees anywhere, whether in occupied or unoccupied territory.
It seems to us that some settlement should be speedily arrived at concern-
ing this matter, and also as to the recognition of grand lodges who derive
their origin from Scottish Rite Supreme Councils. At present there is no
uniformity of action among our grand lodges.

However desirable may be a speedy settlement of the questions in-
volved, it is not to be expected. It is only since Masonic history ceased
to be written chiefly from the imagination — a very recent period — that a
discussion of what constitutes dissent from the original plan of Masonry
becomes clear to a sufficient proportion of the membership of grand lodges
to bear its legitimate fruit. The strongest entrenchment of the doctrines

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of Caste and Privilege which permeate the hierarchical systems alleged to
be Masonic, is ignorance. When this is carried, the rest is comparatively
easy, and the claim of these systems to exercise authority in the original
Masonry whose polity they subvert, goes down the toboggan slide with in-
creasing rapidity.

The inertia of a Masonic status which rests on misinformation is neces-
sarily hard to overcome, but the pressure of demonstrable truth ultimately
gets motion into the mass. A third of a century ago only 'one weak voice
was striving for a discussion which should go to the core of this ques-
tion. Since then strong men have risen up to second the effort, impelled
by convictions forced upon them by deeper study, to stand for the exclu-
sive authority of the lodge and the grand lodge in all matters pertaining
to the Masonry of the original plan. Progress may seem slow, but it is
manifest enough to encourage those who have learned to labor and to wait.

CONNECTICUT, 1904.

ii6th Annual. Hartford. January 20.

This volume contains portraits of the retiring grand master, Leon M.
Woodford; Past Grand Masters Eli Sanford Quintard (1865-6) and
William Wallace Lee (1874-5), and Eaton W. Maxey, D.D., grand
chaplain in 1879, 1881, and 1900. The last three are borne on memorial
pages, their names being reported in the necrology of the year in the ad-
dress of Grand Master Woodford. Brother Quintard, the oldest past
grand master died at eighty-three; Brother Lee at seventy-five, and Brother
Maxey was in his seventy-first year. Brother Lee was for twenty-six
years president of the Connecticut Masonic Veteran Association. All
were prominent in their respective communities.

The grand master's notice of the dead of other jurisdictions includes
the names of Bromwell, Browning and Egan, of Illinois.

The representatives of twenty-seven jurisdictions were in the diplo-
matic gallery, among them George E. Parsons, the envoy from Illinois,
who later was invested with the purple.

The grand master reported no decisions. He extols the Masonic
Home as a great blessing to our needy brethren and a great credit to the
Freemasons of Connecticut. At the beginning of the year he had issued
a call for subscriptions to start a proposed endowment fund of $250,000
for its maintenance. This yielded $192.70. The number of members at

50 APPENDIX— PART I.

the end of the fiscal year of the Home was sixty-two ; the annual per
capita cost of maintenance, $164.08.

Referring to the dignity and impressiveness of the work which had
come under his eye, the grand master properly says that there is no place
in the work where levity may properly come in, and he might have added
with greater force that it should find no place in the preparation for it.

He expresses the wish that the terms "first, second and third" degrees
might he abolished, and the proper names given these degrees, namely,
Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft, Master Mason — advice which we pre-
sume he would apply only to the ritual, as in writing they cannot well be
spared, as they are sufficiently identifying and their use saves repetition.

He waives his hand gallantly to the ladies of the Eastern Star. Re-
ferring to his refusals to permit the ballot to be re-taken in two cases of
alleged mistake in voting, he recommends the universal use of the white
ball and the black cube ballot, which certainly reduces the liability to
errors.

The grand secretary, Past Grand Master John H. Barlow, referring
to tardiness or carelessness in acknowledging official letters thus refers to
a sensible practice :

In this connection there is a practice adopted in a few of our lodges
which I would like to see more generally adopted; it is called a Visitor's
Notice. A short note or card sent to a visiting brother's lodge, giving no-
tice of his visit. It serves not only as a recognition of fraternal courtesy
to a worthy brother, but is a help in detecting those claiming the right of
visitation when not in good standing in their lodges.

The following indicates that either from habit or from conviction the
Grand Lodge of Connecticut still treats the "degree" of past master as a
part of Ancient Craft Masonry, but as it does not seem to be essential to
qualify a master to preside, we infer that it is preserved only as bric-a-bric :

The most worshipful grand master appointed Brothers Asa P. Fitch
and John H. Barlow, past grand master, to confer the degree of Actual
Past Master upon those present who had not received it. The committee
retired and conferred the degree upon about thirty masters and past mas-
ters of the several lodges.

The grand lodge dues — which are fixed each year — remain at one dol-
lar per capita ; seventy-five per cent going to the charity foundation and
twenty-five to the expenses of the grand lodge.

George E. Parsons, of Norwich, was elected grand master; John H.
Barlow, Hartford, re-elected grand secretary.

The report on correspondence (214 pp.) is from the accustomed hand
of the grand secretary, and is his tenth annual review. A manifestly care-
ful examination of our proceedings for 1903 yields him material for seven

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full pages of extract and comment. Of the former are the exordium of
Grand Master Moulton's address ; his reference to the honored dead ; his
order relative to unusual precautions required by the presence of clan-
destine lodges, and his address on relinquishing the chair to his successor.
The oration of Brother McFatrich he finds full of inspiring thoughts.

We are glad to have his kind words of our report ; more glad to find
so many points in which our judgments accord, giving us, as it does, more
confidence in our own perceptions. There are, of course, points on which
we differ, as when after quoting from our review of Colorado, wherein we
classed with other clandestine lodges all organizations claiming to exer-
cise authority in the Masonry of the three degrees by virtue of any power
derived from the Scottish Rite, Memphis Rite et id omne genus, he says :

If this be true there is very little genuine legitimate Masonry outside
the United States and the British possessions, and Masonry ceases to be
universal. We are not quite prepared to admit all this, though we should
be careful to avoid the atheistical tendencies of many of them.

No, the question whether or not Masonry is universal does not hang
on that "if." Masonry has never been universal in the sense that it was
geographically distributed over the whole earth. The claim of the Ma-
sonic fathers, the men from whom we have derived our Free and Accepted
Masonry, never could have meant universality for it in that sense; be-
cause manuscripts contemporaneous with the dawn of speculative Masonry
put forward the claim of universality as broadly as it has ever been put
since, and these manuscripts were made and used by men who knew — or
thought they knew, not being aware of the existence of a few lodges in
Scotland — that there were not half a score of lodges in the British Islands
and that there were none elsewhere. To claim for the society universality
under such conditions, in the sense of universal geographical distribution,
would have been sheer buncombe. But that Masonry is universal in the
sense that its catholic basis of fellowship is broad enough, and the scope
of its principles far reaching enough to take in all the races of men was
true in the beginnings of the institution, is now true, and will continue to
be true through the centuries which are likely to elapse before all peoples
have advanced enough to adapt themselves to it and thus make its universal
distribution possible.

We criticized regulations requiring that correspondence respecting
waiver of jurisdiction between lodges in different states should pass
through the hands of the grand masters, as likely to lead to the final nib-
bling away of the rights of the lodge wherein the power to release or to
refuse to do so exclusively lies. He says :

We do not see the danger to which he alludes, as the lodge makes the
decisions, only we think all communications from sister jurisdictions should
come through the proper channel.

52 APPENDIX — PART I.

We know that the years fly rapidly, but we do not think that it can be
more than a dozen years since a grand master first discovered that the
"proper channel" for such correspondence was through his hands. It is no
satisfaction to us now to say — "We told you so." But we remember dis-
tinctly that we then feared the "danger" that is to Brother Barlow not yet
in sight. When he struck "Quebec" in our review of 1903, we found that it
had fully materialized, the grand master saying (and his acts were not ques-
tioned) that he had had occasion to remind some of the lodges that they
have no authority to grant a waiver of jurisdiction over candidates in
favor of lodges in another jurisdiction. He was then speaking of a case
of waiver, which, he says (without making it plain whether the consent of
the lodge thereto was asked or not), "I was very glad to grant." We cite
another case in his own words :

I have declined to grant waiver of jurisdiction in favor of a lodge in
Nova Scotia, over a candidate whose home is in Montreal and who is
therefore in a position to apply for the degrees in the jurisdiction to which
he belongs, notwithstanding the plea that he spends most of his time in
the sister province.

There is nothing here to indicate that the lodge made the decision, or
that any one was consulted but the grand master.

Brother Barlow copies our summary of the interesting tables prepared
by Grand Master Dewey, of Kansas, showing the legislation of thirty-five
grand lodges anent the liquor question, with the remark that we might
have added of Connecticut, that the making of saloon keepers was prohi-
bited "by the use of the blackball." This is also widely true of Illinois,
and we presume likewise of other jurisdictions.

He fully endorses our opinion that a Master Mason should be free to
choose his Masonic home without regard to jurisdictional lines, as being,
he thinks, the almost universal law.

DELAWARE, 1903.

97TH Annual. Wilmington. October 7.

The volume contains portraits of the retiring grand masters, Harry
J. Guthrie, and Grand Secretary Benjamin F. Bartram, the latter by
special order of the grand lodge on the completion of twelve years service
in that office.

Nine past grand masters were present. The diplomatic crops included
the envoys of thirty jurisdictions, Illinois being represented by Past Grand
Master George Massey Jones. Distinguished visitors were Grand Master

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W. Holt Apgar, of New Jersey, and suite, including Past Grand Master
Ewan and the deputy grand master, grand secretary, grand chaplain and
senior grand deacon of that jurisdiction, Frederic J. Brown, representa-
tive of Delaware, near the Grand Lodge of New York; and John D. Goff,
district deputy grand master, and Past Masters Smith and Burton, of
Pennsylvania, all of whom entertained the grand lodge with spirited ad-
dresses. Almost the first act of the grand lodge was one of remembrance
of the venerable Daniel McClintock, who was grand master in 1866 and
1867, and later the following was adopted:

Resolved, That the grand secretary be and he is hereby instructed to
convey to M. W. Past Grand Master Daniel McClintock who is again un-
able, by reason of the physical infirmities consequent upon old age, to at-
tend this annual communication, the sympathy of this grand lodge and the
regret that the brethren feel at missing his familiar face and failing to have
his wise counsel in its deliberations, and wishing him many happy years of
serene old age.

Grand Master Guthrie announced the demise of Past Masters Henry
C. Pennington, Isaac H. Ubil, Edward Dalby and John H. Hastings,
and in referring to the dead of other jurisdictions — including our own —
said that never, perhaps, in one short year, had so many scholars passed
into the great beyond.

He calls attention to the increased and increasing caution made nec-
essary by the multiplication of clandestine lodges in the eastern part of the
country, the off-spring of the spurious Grand Lodge of Ohio.

He reported five decisions mostly along well trodden lines. One of
them to the effect that a letter from a member, addressed to the W. M.,
officers and brethren of a lodge, requesting that a candidate elected in his
absence be not made a Mason was a valid form of objection. The form
in which this was approved by the committee on address — who in Delaware
assume or have imposed upon them the functions of a committee on juris-
prudence— suggests that their law provides that an objection to an elected
candidate stands as a bar to his initiation for a period of one year and no
longer, as does the Illinois law. The committee say :

We approve as it is in conformity to law, i. e., that an objection com-
ing from a member of a lodge petitioned has all the force and character
of a blackball. Therefore the objection must be renewed at the expira-
tion of one year, otherwise the candidate may be entered at the pleasure of
the W. M.

If it is true that after the lapse of a year the candidate may be en-
tered at the pleasure of the master, unless the objection is renewed, then
the statement of the committee that an objection "has all the force and
character of a blackball," is a careless one, because no lapse of time
simply, removes the bar interposed by a blackball; this can only be re-
moved by a favorable ballot on a new petition.

54 APPENDIX — PART I.

The committee on ways and means for the centenary of the grand
lodge in 1906 reported progress. A committee of five was appointed to
draw up and present at the next annual, a plan for the formation of a
state joint board of relief.

Charles H. Maull, of Lewes, was elected grand master; Ben-
jamin F. Bartram, Wilmington, re-elected grand secretary.

The report on correspondence (84 pp.) is from the practiced hand of
Past Deputy Grand Master Lewis H. Jackson, the grand condenser. As
usual he compresses a great deal of interesting matter into a minimum of
space. His notice of Illinois is of the year 1902 and the first year of Grand
Master Moulton's administration.

Quoting his decision prohibiting the conferring of more than seven
degrees by any lodge in one day, he says :

It seems this ruling oecame necessary in order to correct a growing
tendency to abbreviate the ritualistic work of the institution, a thing that
should be discountenanced everywhere. There should be no necessity re-
cognized for conferring even so many as seven. Many jurisdictions limit
the number to five, and this writer would prefer to limit the number to
three, which is as much work as can be impressively done in full form with
complete lectures.

The decision as to the right of the tyler to vote in quoted, but elicits
no comment. The index to our report receives the appreciative notice
which bespeaks the booklover. If he is right in thinking that it will be an
incentive to the through reading of the report, the labor of preparing it
will not be grudged.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, 1903.

93RD Annual. Washington. December 16.

This bulky volume, which reflects the careful work of a busy year
for the grand lodge, its officers and committees, is embellished with
portraits of the retiring grand master, (George Harold Walker,) and
Past Grand Master Noble Danforth Larner — long and widely recognized
as one of the strong supports of Masonry in the district, and a picture of
the monument erected by the fraternity at Oak Hill cemetery, to the
memory of William R. Singleton, grand secretary from 1876 until his
death in 1901.

Under the revised constitution, which together with by-laws, trial
code and ceremonial it was the work of a busy year to perfect, this grand
lodge holds five communications annually, at 7 o'clock p. m.

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The semi-annual was held May 13, 1903. Twelve past grand masters
were present.

If the ghost of the question put by a District Mason in a letter from
Hong Kong, China, asking what was his duty when he run up against
negro Masons in English lodges in Asiatic cities, is not still abroad in the
District, the fear of it still haunts some of the brethren there. It will be
remembered that at the annual communication of 1901, when this question
was raised, the jurisprudence committee contended themselves with simply
stating the law by which the regularity of the status of one under consid-
eration might be tested, but did not tell the inquirer what to do with a
clandestine hare after he had caught it inside of a lodge which he knew
to be regular. They said :

Your committee do not attempt to inform the brother what American
lodges are clandestine. A rule by which our brethren from the District of
Columbia, when traveling abroad may be guided, is as follows : One
claiming to be a Mason hailing from a lodge within the Masonic territorial
jurisdiction of the United States, the grand lodge chartering which is not
recognized as such by the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia, may
be safely dismissed Masonically.

At the semi-annual of 1902 the committee were impelled for some
reason to bring in a resolution instructing the grand secretary to notify all
the grand lodges with which the District of Columbia was in fraternal
communication, that there were several lodges in the district, composed
of persons of African descent claiming to be Masonic, and that these
lodges had formed a grand lodge ; that these lodges and their grand
lodge were all clandestine, and further, that at that time, there were no
persons of African descent members of any of the constituent lodges of
the regular grand lodge.

Before the grand secretary could comply with this order a number
of the brethren and among them some of the oldest and most prominent
members of the grand lodge, expressed to the grand master the fear that
an error had been committed, and urged that the matter have further con-
sideration in grand lodge. The ground of their fears appears in the fol-
lowing discreet and carefully put remarks of Grand Master Walker :

It is not the question of a color line, for Masonry recognizes no color
line, and we have brethren on our rolls of full Indian blood, full Mongolian
blood, and possibly the blood of other races. But this matter comes be-
fore the grand lodge on a complaint that the alleged clandestine Masons
hail from a sister jurisdiction, one of the most eminent in our country,
and the fear is that by implication our action might be construed as a
reflection or censure upon that grand lodge, because that grand jurisdiction
has taken no notice of the so-called clandestine Masons within their
midst. Each grand lodge is supreme within the jurisdiction in which
it may be established, and no other grand lodge should seek to control its
affairs expressly or impliedly. We hav.e had no trouble such as is alleged
in the letter which forms the subject of this controversy as coming from

56 APPENDIX — PART I.

our <>\vn jurisdiction, and it would seem that we are going out of our way
to borrow trouble and assume burdens that do not belong to us. The
situation might suggest that concerted action be taken by the several
grand lodges to notify the grand lodges with which we. are in fraternal
relations of the names and numbers of the several lodges in each juris-
diction which are regarded as regular and entitled to recognition, and
beyond that it would seem that our duty should not take us. It is not
necessary in carrying out the teachings of Masonry that we should enter
into a discussion or controversy in which the question of race is primal.
Let us hold aloof from any such consideration. The main question in this
case, however, is that we should consider well whether or not we are
seeking to interfere in affairs arising out of a sister jurisdiction. If we
are doing so, then we should stop where we are and go no further; and
the order to the R. W. grand secretary relative to notification to sister
grand lodges should be withdrawn.

Considering the process by which the notice directed to be sent to
other grand lodges was evolved, it does not seem to us that it afforded any
ground for umbrage on the part of other jurisdictions, and we are therefore
not surprised that the subsequent report of the jurisprudence committee
explaining that evolution was held to preclude the necessity of withdraw-
ing or staying the action previously had and ordered.

The grand master reported the receipt of a letter from United States
Vice-Consul Gannon in charge at Tientsin, China, in behalf of American
citizens and brethren residing there and desirous of forming an American
lodge under a charter from the District of Columbia. This he wisely
passed over to the jurisprudence, who with equal wisdom — as we think, in
view of the experience of other American grand lodges — say :

We recognize and appreciate the national pride of our brethren in
desiring to have a lodge at Tientsin instituted under a warrant from our
grand lodge, but in view of the universality of Masonry, and of the im-
portance, in our judgment, of a grand lodge granting a charter being so
positioned geographically that it can exercise proper supervisory powers
over the work of the lodge it may charter, and in view of the fact that
our grand lodge is so remote from the place where it is desired to estab-
lish the proposed lodge that it would not be practicable for it to exercise
such supervisory powers, your committee feels constrained to report that
in its judgment it is unwise to advise that such an application might be
favorably received.

Notwithstanding this report, the grand secretary was instructed to
advise Brother Gannon what steps should be taken to obtain a charter,
and inform him that the grand lodge cannot act upon his request until a
petition for a charter in proper form shall be received. Up to the close
of the year nothing further had been heard in the matter.

Being engaged in considering the report of the committee on revision
of laws, by calling off the session was prolonged through three separate but
not successive evenings. On calling to labor on May 19, after prayer, the
grand master extended to the grand chaplain, the Rev. Bro. Claudius B.

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Smith, the congratulations of the grand lodge upon his having that day
attained his eighty-fifth birthday, to which Brother Smith happily re-
sponded. At a special communication held June 27, to lay the corner-
stone of the new Foundry M. E. Church, Brother Smith was present, but
was excused from serving in his station on account of his great age and
infirmities. We are glad to notice, however, that he was present at all
subsequent communications during the year, and at its close was again
elected and installed.

The work of revision being completed, the amended constitution, by-
laws, and new code of trials were adopted to take effect August 1, 1003.
The new trial code provides for a "Trial Commission," which we find upon
examination to be very nearly the equivalent of the "committee" provided
for in the Illinois code, but that the scope of its functions is broadened, the
commission being required after the evidence is all in, and the accused
and the accuser have been heard, to find both as to matters of fact and law
and to make such recommendation as it may deem proper, when all — the
evidence, findings and recommendation are to be filed, sealed up, wjth the
secretary of the lodge. As with us, the lodge is the final arbiter in the
case (unless it be appealed), the proceedings after the report has been
read and considered, being substantially the same as under the Illinois
code.

This is quite a different matter from the trial commissions provided
for by some grand lodges, who practically substitute the Code Napoleon
for the precepts of English jurisprudence, in defiance of the landmark
which recognizes the lodge as the proper and competent judges of all such
controversies."

By the same token the District trial code is to be condemned in that
it denies to the grand lodge the power to do full justice to an appellant
whom it finds on reviewing his case on its merits, to have been wrongfully
deprived of any of his rights.

The revised constitution requires the master to have the charter of the
lodge present therein whenever it is open, and to read it to the lodge
at the time of his installation ; provides that an unaffiliated Mason may
visit each lodge in the jurisdiction not more than once before taking the
necessary steps for affiliation — recognizes the right of one lodge to confer
degrees for another upon request of the latter; retains the old practice of
one ballot for the three degrees ; requires a residence of twelve months in
the Jurisdiction next preceding the presentation of a petition for the
degrees as a factor in eligibility; makes the jurisdiction of a lodge over its
rejected material endure for five years, (unless sooner released, which
after the expiration of one year may be done by a two-thirds vote, not
less than one month from the receipt of a written application from the

58 APPENDIX — PART I.

rejected candidate), but requires the lodges to respect the regulations of
grand lodges making such jurisdiction more enduring, or even perpetual.

At the stated communication of September 26, 1903, eight past grand
masters were present.

Grand Master Walker referred to the fact that since the May com-
munication the new code had been brought into force and effect without
friction or inconvenience to any one and expressed his confidence that the
revision would prove of lasting benefit to Masonry in that jurisdiction, a
confidence which we think well warranted. He says :

One of the principal benefits of the new law is to simplify the question
of jurisdiction, which has frequently been a source of friction with sister
grand lodges, by a uniform requirement of a previous residence of twelve
months before an applicant may file his petition for the degrees.

He suggested some changes, all of which were worthy of consideration
and two of them of general interest. The first of these was in the direction
of a more correct usage in the use of titles ofofficers, while the second was
of the. first importance, viz. to strike out the requirement of twelve
months residence as a condition of petitioning for affiliation, it being
in derogation of the right of a Master Mason to choose his Masonic
home without regard to jurisdictional lines. These were adopted and
thereby hangs a tale : A motion being made and carried to reconsider
the vote by which the sections covering the subjects of suggested change
were adopted —

Bro. William S. Parks raised a point of order against consideration
of the proposed amendments that under the provisions of section 113
every proposition to amend the constitution must be submitted in writing,
at a stated communication of the grand lodge, be signed by at least two
members, and lie over until the next stated communication at which gen-
eral business may be transacted.

The grand master assigned the following reasons for overruling the
point of order :

The grand master stated that under section 121 of the by-laws a
motion to reconsider may be made at the same or the first subsequent
stated communication, if moved by one who voted with the prevailing
side. This is in accordance with general usage in all parliamentary bodies.
Under common parliamentary law, a motion to reconsider applies to
any and all questions, and as the revised constitution, when under consid-
eration at the last stated communication, was subject to the rules of par-
liamentary law, except that a vote of two-thirds was required for its
adoption, a motion to reconsider, being a fundamental rule of parliamen-
tary law, was certainly applicable when made in accordance with custom
and usage.

We entertain the highest respect for the ability of Grand Master
Walker and his many-sided training as reflected throughout his official
Masonic career, but we are constrained to say that we think his ruling in
this instance was clearly erroneous. The records of the grand lodge show

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that by the terms of its adoption the new constitution became operative
on the first day of August, and at the outset of his address the grand
master referred, as we have seen, to its having been brought into force at
that time, nearly two months earlier than the date at which he was
speaking. The method which that instrument prescribed for its own altera-
tion or amendment was as much the supreme law of the jurisdiction as any
other portion of it. It is not necessary to discuss the quality of a motion
to reconsider as being either more, or less, or equally as fundamental as
any other step in parliamentary procedure, because in this case the time
had gone by when any of them were applicable, or could become appli-
cable except by the one process pointed out by the constitution confessedly
in force.

The committee on work and lectures reported, at the request of the
grand master, the draft of an address to the candidate in the preparation
room, by the master who was to call the lodge from labor to refreshment
for that purpose. Its length (twenty-three lines) was the chief but
perhaps not the only reason for the adverse vote on the report. Later,
upon a reconsideration, the report was recommitted with instructions to
prepare a briefer ceremony. As reported (and adopted) at a subsequent
communication, the calling off was not mentioned, but the direction is that
the master, or some brother designated by him, shall deliver the address,
which, as boiled down, is as follows :

Our ancient and honorable fraternity welcomes to her doors and
admits to her privileges worthy men of all creeds and of every race,
but she insists that all men shall stand upon an exact equality, and receive
her instructions in a spirit of due humility. With this end in view, the
lodge into which you are now to be admitted expects you to divest your-
self of all those worldly distinctions and equipments which are not in
keeping with the humble and reverent attitude it is now your duty to
assume, as all have done who have gone this way before you. * * *

The same committee reported upon the following resolution which
had been referred to them at the semi-annual :

Resolved, That the committee on work and lectures be directed to
consider and report upon the propriety of a change in the present custom
of excluding Entered Apprentice and Fellow Craft Masons from the lodge
at the times of opening and closing said lodges.

Upon the heels of the refusal of the grand lodge to agree to the adverse
report of the committee, who were "of the opinion that the present prac-
tice should not be departed from," a motion was made that Entered
Apprentices and Fellow Crafts be permitted to witness the opening and
closing ceremonies of the degrees they had received, but was lost.

We are not so curious as to this apparently sudden change of heart
as we are to know whether the practice of such exclusion prevails else-
where than in the District of Columbia. We do not remember to have

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heard of such a rule obtaining anywhere, and should be glad to learn
from our brethren of the guild whether they are as ignorant (or as
forgetful) as we are.

At the annual communication (December 16) nine past grand masters
were formally received with the honors appropriate to their rank, and Past
Grand Master Milton J. Hull, of Nebraska, was fraternally welcomed.
Thirty-three jurisdictions were represented in the diplomatic corps,
Illinois by Past Grand Master L. Cabell Williamson.

Grand Master Walker announced the death of Noble D. Larner,
past grand master; John N. Birckhead, grand tiler, and ten past mas-
ters. Of the character and personality of the first of these, the grand
master says :

M. W. Bro. Larner was for nearly half a century a potential force in
the business, social, and religious life of Washington. He was abundantly
endowed with the qualities that make for success — great moral and physi-
cal courage, sound judgment, indomitable energy, and unswerving in-
tegrity— and it was said of him that no enterprise with which he was
connected was ever known to fail. He was for forty years a member of
the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, and it was within its sacred
walls that the great change came to him, when "in a moment, in the
twinkling of an eye," he painlessly sank to rest.

The deceased grand tiler had served in that office since 1894 and had
greatly endeared himself to the fraternity. Among the dead past masters
was William A. Gately, who was assistant grand secretary from 1894
to 1901.

The grand master reported the appointment of Philander W. Bar-
clay as representative near the Grand Lodge of Illinois. Ten decisions
reported most of which are ably discussed in the correspondence covering
the cases which evoked them.

Number 1 seems to hold that there might be something in the claim
of a grand lodge to jurisdiction over a profane who had made a bona fide
removal from its territory, although in No. 4 the grand master shows that
he fully appreciates the difference between territorial jurisdiction and the
jurisdiction obtained by rejecting a petition, by the following remark:

The theory and practice of the Grand Lodge of the District of Colum-
bia is that if a person departs from its jurisdiction with the intention of
making his home elsewhere, it no longer has any claim upon him.

His decision (No. 6) in the case of a brother who had been dropped
from the rolls for non-payment of dues, at a time when he was an inmate
of a hospital for the insane was illegally suspended, is equally creditable
to his head and heart. He says:

The courts have decided that a man who is insane is not held re-
sponsible for any wrongs he may commit, and that he is mentally incapable
personally of receiving notice, etc., although provision is made for suits

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for or against him through the medium of a committee appointed by the
court, all of which, however, we need not discuss. A fraternal organi-
zation should not bind its members to the rigid rules enforced by the
technicalities of the common law, and even if decisions were found that
the notice could be served upon a brother in an insane condition, I would
decide that he was incapable of receiving notice as provided in the
section of our constitution to which I have referred, and therefore he was
illegally suspended.

Equally sensible is his decision that their constitutional provision
that "no petition for the degrees shall be withdrawn after it has been
referred to a committee," applies only to petitions which the lodge has a
right to receive, and that when a lodge finds that it has referred the
petition of an applicant who from lack of residence cannot legally apply,
its only course is to withdraw and return it.

Equally sound, we think, both on general principles and in construing
their enacted law, is his decision that while under that law "It is the
duty of every member present to vote, and the master may oblige him to
do so," yet the failure of a brother to perform that duty, or his evasion
of it by slipping from the room without permission, would not render the
ballot invalid unless his failure to vote was in defiance of the master's
order.

His decisions were all approved, as was also his action in all cases
of dispensations, save one authorizing a lodge to hold its meetings in a
room on the lower floor of the building in which their lodge room was
situated, until damage to the latter by fire could be repaired, in which
case the committee on jurisprudence asked further time that they might
more thoroughly consider the question of a lodge holding its meetings
in a room not dedicated. Unfortunately the committee will not be able
to consult the inn-keepers who housed Masonry in its early days. Like
Adam they are dead. But it is a safe guess that it was then held that if
the lodge was dedicated its work would pass muster, the chief concern as
to its meeting-place being then, as, in the earlier traditional period, that it
should be so situated that they could catch the interloper going and com-
ing— going up or coming down.

When, only a few years ago, a grand lodge for the first time in this
country, and we think for the first time in the history of Masonry any-
where, made a regulation requiring all correspondence between its lodges
and lodges in other states, relative to waiver of territorial jurisdiction to
pass through the hands of the grand masters of each respectively, we
protested against it as likely to end in the destruction of the rights of the
lodges in a matter in which nobody but themselves were interested. The
prophetic nature of our remarks has received abundant and rapidly ac-
cumulating confirmation. Already in this report we have found more
than one illustration, in one of which the grand master reported that he

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had himself become the arbiter in such cases and in one or more had
declined to grant the waiver requested ! The same result is practically
reached in the following case reported by Grand Master Walker:

Under date of June 25, I received a communication from Bro. John
E. Morris, Jr., secretary of Independent Orange Lodge No. 138, of
Orange, Va., requesting a waiver of jurisdiction to allow that lodge to
receive the petition for the degrees of Masonry' of Mr. W. Clyde Locker,
of No. 208 Indiana avenue, northwest, this city. Inasmuch as it is our
custom in such cases to have the request come through the grand master
of the jurisdiction in which the particular lodge is located, and not wish-
ing to show any discourtesy to the grand master of Virginia, I addressed
a letter to M. W. Bro. Edward N. Eubank, grand master of Masons of
Virginia, requesting that liis sanction be given before the matter received
further attention. I stated furthermore that if it u-as his wish that the
requested waiver be approved, I would promptly lay the matter before
one of our lodges, all having concurrent jurisdiction, to the end that the
waiver, if possible, might be granted. In response I received a letter under
date of July 7 from M. W. Brother Eubank, in which he stated that he
would take up the case at once with Independent Orange Lodge, so that
the correspondence might be conducted through the regular channels.
I have heard nothing further relative to the case.

The italics are ours, showing how naturally as well as how rapidly
has been evolved out of a superflous and mistaken courtesy, this threat-
ened usage, which robs the lodges of a right that in the very nature of
things can be vested nowhere else. But one more step is necessary to
divest the lodges of all their rights. If the grand master may say that a
lodge shall or shall not relinquish jurisdiction over a resident of its
territory, he may by the same token say that it shall or shall not make
him if he applies for the degrees.

The correspondence of the grand master growing out of an invitation
to lay the corner-stone of the Navy Department Annex, shows a very
clear and correct idea on his part of what is permissible in that line.
The fact was brought out that the annex was the property of a private
individual, clearly erected for private gain, although the lease under which
it was to be occupied was specifically authorized by act of congress. He
properly decided that it was not a "public building" and declined the invi-
tation.

It is a very old and probably very wise saying that there is no dis-
puting about tastes ; we, therefore, pass over the grand master's account
of the interchange of courtesies and shekels between the Masons, Odd
Fellows and Knights of Phythias at their respective fairs, all of which
he saw, and part of which he was, but we must be permitted to express
our regret that he should officially commend a business corporation trad-
ing on the adjective "Masonic."

The committee on jurisprudence was granted further time to consider
the question of recognizing the grand lodges of Mexico and the Argen-
tine Republic.

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At the St. John's Day communication (December 28) ten past grand
masters were present. The committee on grand master's address paid a
merited tribute to the ability of Grand Master Walker and to his thorough
and painstaking discharge of his official duties. After he had installed
his successor he was the recipient of a jewel of his rank.

James A. Wetmore was elected grand master; Arvine W. Johnston
re-elected grand secretary. The address of both is Masonic Temple, Wash-
ington.

The report on correspondence (148 pp.) is by Past Grand Master
George W. Baird, the fourth from his hand. In his "Conclusion" he
philosophizes briefly, closing as follows :

In a country where but one religion exists the people become corrupt.
Where a plurality of creeds exist the sects vie with each other for
supremacy in virtue, and in the deprecation of wrong-doing. So, with
each grand lodge, a sovereign body, liberal enough to suffer the criticism
of its neighbor's correspondence committees, we may regard ourselves in
the latter category. During the four years we have been engaged in this
work we have been impressed as much with the uniformly good temper
of our contemporaries as with their learning and good purposes.

Something over three of his limited number of pages are given to
our proceedings for 1903. He thus refers to the destruction of charters :

No less than four charters had to be duplicated, to replace four
destroyed by fire. This should be an admonition to all lodges, to all
Masonic halls and temples, to keep charters and records in fire-proof
vaults.

The race of men with which this portion of our continent is peopled
is so accustomed to taking the chances that it requires something more
drastic than good advice to secure the best possible care of charters. It
should be said that in three out of the four instances above referred to
there is probably not a fire-proof vault in the villages where the lodges
are located.

He makes a note of the fees required by our law for dispensations for
various purposes, and says :

We beg to invite the attention of our own constituency to this example.
The charges are proper; if there is any error it is in charging too
little. In uttering these dispensations a grand master is required to set
aside both constitution and by-laws. Our own grand lodge has never
been able to legislate in favor of these just and proper charges.

Thirty years experience with this scale of fees has proved very satis-
factory in Illinois. The shrinkage in emergencies requiring dispensations
for balloting out of time has been very remarkable since its adoption.
Quoting the remark of Grand Master Moulton that the most prolific
cause of trouble had been invasion of jurisdiction mostly through over-
sight and carelessness, Brother Baird says :

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And yet the progressive brethren in this great jurisdiction, sti'l adhere
to that "prolific cause."

Territorial jurisdiction is modern; it is not mentioned in the ancient
charges; it is not a land mark; it is a modern innovation. We have
often thought its purpose has been dollars and cents.

Perhaps the fact that lodges are generally permitted to condone their
offence against the law by paying over the fees to the complaining lodge
has given him additional cause to think that dollars and cents is the
underlying purpose of the law of territorial jurisdiction. We have been
credited with a pretty keen scent for any concessions to the commercial
element in Masonry, but we have never considered this law one of them. It
is easier to account for it by the weighty consideration that it secures the
judgment of those where he is best known, on the petition of an applicant
for the degrees.

He considers the Masonic Home the very exponent of Masonic
charity; hails as good news the passing of the Illinois Home for the Aged
into the possession of the grand lodge; and looks forward to the time
when his grand lodge shall take over the home established by the Eastern
Star, which he thinks it should have itself established long ago. We
want to say in the utmost sincerity that even if his grand jurisdiction
were so much larger that the care of its needy by the institutional
method would be relatively much less extravagant than it would be in its
present size, we should still feel like congratulating him on the absence of
an expensive plant to take toll of the charitable contributions of the craft
on their way to the indigent and distressed.

Of the adoption of the adverse report of this committee on the re-
solution to recognize certain foreign grand bodies, he says :

There is evidence of care and labor as well as time consumed by the
committee, and it is safe to follow them.

We are glad to find throughout his report abundant evidence of the
truth of his remark that notwithstanding occasional divergences, we
twain are traveling in parallel.

ENGLAND, 1904.

i88th Annual. London. March 2.

We have before us the proceedings of two quarterly communications,
at both of which the pro grand master, The Earl of Amherst, presided.
At the quarterly of December 2, 1903, Thomas F. Halsey, M. P., qualified
as deputy grand master, to which office he had just been appointed.

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The Duke of Connaught, was nominated to succeed himself as grand
master. No other name was mentioned for that office, but as usual two
names were brought forward for the office of grand treasurer, thus neces-
sitating a ballot at the succeeding quarterly, the date of the election. The
board of general purposes brought forward a proposition to exclude
(after March i, 1906) wardens from the make-up of the grand lodge, the
chairman explaining that the body had outgrown its accommodations,
entailing the necessity of either making the hall larger or the grand
lodge smaller. The Earl of Amherst, pro grand master, made the
suggestion (which at once ripened into a motion from the floor) that this
portion of the report of the board be referred back, so that it might come
up at the next quarterly, so that the craft throughout England should have
time to consider well so great and vital a change, and to decide how they
would ask their masters and wardens to vote thereon in grand lodge.

In the course of the discussion the suggestion that a provincial grand
lodge in London would do something to relieve the congestion, empha-
sized the fact which we have brought out in previous reports, that all
England is covered by provincial grand lodges save the metropolitan dis-
trict.

On the merits of the proposition to exclude, Brother Lichtenberger,
P. M. No. 16-70, said (among other things) :

May I be allowed to make one remark to the brethren, and that is
this, that this is the only grand lodge, so far as I know, where wardens
are admitted to grand lodge. Other grand lodges do not admit wardens,
and if they have no voice in the councils of the craft I do not think the
craft would lose much by it. As a matter of fact I know that things have
cropped up at grand lodge which wardens are not supposed to know,
and such things may come up again. Quite independent of the matter of
space, I believe grand lodge would be none the worse if only installed
masters and past masters were present to hear what was going on, and
have a voice.

The brother's reading must have been limited. As a rule the
wardens are recognized as constituting an integral part of the grand
lodge. The exceptions to this are few and far between. We have not
the time now- to go over all the proceedings on our table in order to
determine just what proportion these exceptions bear to the whole number
of jurisdictions, but picking up at random the proceedings of fourteen
grand lodges including three in the Dominion of Canada, we find but
one that does not show the wardens to be members of the grand lodge ;
and in that one (New South Wales) the evidence is not conclusive either
way, the minutes not being sufficiently detailed to show whether they
participate in the proceedings or not.

The motion to refer back prevailed by a large majority, and at the
March quarterly the board announced its purpose to proceed no further

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with the matter at present, expressing the hope that land for a larger
hall might be obtained in a year or two.

We trust that proposition is laid away for its final rest, for we
regard the right of the wardens to membership in the grand lodge as
rooted in the landmarks and resting upon precisely the same basis as the
right of the master to the same franchise.

At the quarterly communication of March 2, 1904, The Duke of
Connaught was re-elected grand master by acclamation. Sir Edward
Letchworth remains grand secretary. The necrology of the year included
but one present grand officer, Past Grand Warden Sir Albert W. Woods,
grand director of ceremonies. The board of general purposes reported as
follows upon a matter to which we referred at some length in our report
of last year :

In compliance with the direction from grand lodge to take into con-
sideration the numerous infractions of Rule 205, Book of constitutions, as
to the publication of matters "improper to be published," the Board has
inquired into several complaints made. In one case, a brother who had
advertised his intention to publish a book containing such matters, gave
a full explanation, withdrew his contemplated publication, and apologized
for his indiscretion, which apology was accepted. In another case a
brother who had published in his newspaper such proceedings of a lodge
meetings as transgressed the rule, understook to meet the wishes of grand
lodge in every way. In a third case, however, a brother who had trans-
gressed after having received a special warning, was suspended for six
months.

The grand registrar gave an opinion on a point raised by the District
Grand Secretary of Wardens, that a ballot for affiliation where the grand
lodge certificate of the applicant and his clearance certificate (dimit) from
his present or former lodge was not produced at the meeting when the
ballot is taken, as required by the rules of the grand lodge, was invalid,
but the propriety of taking action on this view is a matter for the dis-
cretion of the authorities, especially as in many cases subscriptions may
have been received for so long a time as might be held to "regularize"
what had been done. Five hundred guineas were contributed towards the
extension and improvement of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, which for
800 years has held a foremost rank among the hospitals of the Kingdom.

At the annual grand festival, April 27, 1904, the deputy grand master
presided. The Duke of Connaught (Prince Arthur William Patrick
Albert), was proclaimed grand master, who it was announced, had re-
appointed The Earl of Amherst pro grand master, and Thomas F.
Halsev. M. P., deputy grand master, and they were duly proclaimed as
such.

The address of the grand officers is Freemason's Hall, London.

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FLORIDA, 1904.

75TH Annual. Jacksonville. January 19.

The portraits of the grand master, Thomas M. Puleston, and the
deceased junior grand warden, Warren Tyler, embellish this very neat
volume of the Florida proceedings.

Ten grand masters were present, and no fewer than forty-six juris-
dictions were represented in the diplomatic corps, Illinois by James
C. Craver, of Sutherland.

In reporting the necrology of the year, Grand Master Puleston
noticed first the departed of other jurisdictions, among them the dis-
tinguished dead of Illinois. Until within less than a month of their annual
communication, their official circle remained intact, then it was broken
by the passing of Warren Tyler, junior grand warden, at the early age
of forty-two. His portrait (facing his memorial page) is that of an
unusually handsome man who might be of that age or twenty years
younger. Others dead were Dr. Reginald H. Weller, for many years
grand orator, and W. B. Barnett, of the grand lodge trustees, one of the
strong men who carried through their temple-building enterprise.

The grand master suggested that as the next annual communication
would be the seventy-fifth anniversary of the grand lodge it would be
an appropriate time to celebrate their entrance into the family of grand
lodges, and wisely advised that one feature of the program should be an
historical address by their senior past grand master, Samuel Pasco. A
special committee has charge of the celebration, Brother Pasco having
been appointed historian.

In speaking of their foreign relations, the grand master says :

I received a request from the Grand Orient of Brazil for an exchange
of representatives, to which I respectfully replied that it was not the
custom in this grand lodge to exchange representatives until the question
of recognition had been passed upon, and that as there appeared to be
no record in our proceedings of any formal recognition of their grand
body, we declined for the present to comply with the request.

We recall a case occurring a year or two since, where a grand master
assumed to exchange representatives with a grand lodge not recognized
by his grand lodge, and made it stick ! At all events his grand secretary's
tables of grand representatives still carry their names.

Referring to the invasion of Texas by a body calling itself the Grand
Lodge of the Federal District of Mexico, the grand master seems to be of
the opinion that this predatory body is the successor of the body of the

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same name which was recognized by Florida in 1884, though he says it
is thought by many that ihe succession is illegitimate. He recommended
that the grand lodge declare that the recognition accorded at that time
does not apply to this pretended successor. Past Grand Master Silas B.
Wright, chairman of the committee on correspondence, in his highly
instructive special report on Mexico, deals with this body as well as with
the Grand Lodge Valle de Mexico and the Grand Lodge Ignacio Ramirez
(of Tamaulipas,) whose petitions for recognition came into his hands too
late for report last year. We give his conclusions, which were wisely
adopted by the grand lodge.

In view of the chaotic condition of Masonry in Mexico, and the
evident fact that the petitioning grand lodges are not generally recognized,
even in their own jurisdiction, as a sovereign grand lodge having ex-
clusive jurisdiction over the York or any other rite, and as they have
stultified themselves by joining the atheistic and clandestine bodies who
assisted the Swiss Grand Lodge in holding the so-called Masonic Congress,
your committee can not, at this time, recommend its recognition. We do
not desire, however, to absolutely cut them off, hoping that in the near
future conditions may improve and that under the influence of our Amer-
ican Masons they may yet so conduct their Masonic affairs as to render
it possible for us to grant their request. We therefore recommend that
the recognition of the Grand Lodge of the Valley of Mexico and the
Grand Lodge Ignacio Ramirez be indefinitely postponed, with permission
to your correspondence committee to call it up at any time when condi-
tions and circumstances make it desirable.

Your committee further recommend that as to the Grand Lodge of
the Federal District of Mexico, to whom recognition was accorded in 1884,
ceased to exist as an independent sovereign grand lodge, upon its merger
into the gran dieta, that the resolution of recognition of 1884 be and is
hereby declared of no force or effect, and does not apply to the present
body calling itself the Grand Lodge of the Federal District of Mexico.

Inasmuch as the Grand Lodge Valle de Mexico (into which the
Grand Lodge of the Federal District had already been merged) was also
merged into the gran dieta, we do not quite see how in his eyes" it, too,
failed to cease to exist as an independent sovereign grand lodge.

By a slip of the memory which seems to us almost inexplicable in
view of the pronounced position Illinois has occupied for so many years,
he puts our jurisdiction in the list of those who have recognized the
Grand Lodge Valle de Mexico. Not only has Illinois never recognized
any of the Mexican bodies, but the Grand Lodge Valle de Mexico was
one of the bodies included in the resolution upon which we reported
adversely in 1901, which report he reviews in his general report of this
year after having chronicled its adoption at our last annual communication.

But two decisions are reported: the first, relating to the jurisdiction
of lodges over offenders, reflects our own law ; the second claims for
their lodges the personal jurisdiction acquired by receiving a petition, a

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duration of only one year in case the applicant is rejected, differing radi-
cally from our own law under which the jurisdiction endures until waived
by the rejecting lodge. In answer to queries submitted during the session
the jurisprudence committee make the following sound statement relative
to dimits, based upon the proposition held in common by Florida and
Illinois law, that "The action of the lodge is the dimit, and the document
itself (called a dimit) is simply a certificate showing the action of the
lodge."

It follows, therefore (i) that a dimit cannot be granted except in
open lodge and by consent of the same; (2) that a brother obtaining a
paper in the form of a dimit, without the knowledge or consent of his
lodge, is not a dimitted Mason even if the paper is signed by the W. M.
and secretary; (3) if such paper is presented to another lodge, with an
application for affiliation, and the lodge votes to admit the applicant, he
does not thereby become a member of the lodge which thus acts upon his
application; his membership remains in his old lodge because he has not
been dimitted therefrom. The paper dimit, signed and sealed by the
master and secretary, is entitled to the highest credit and a lodge is
justified in accepting it as proof of the Masonic standing of an applicant,
but, should it afterwards be found that the dimit was issued without
authority, the action of the lodge in admitting a brother to affiliation
should be rescinded.

This is of general application, because although in Illinois the dimit
issues as a matter of right and upon the order of the master (after the
written application therefor has laid over for the period prescribed by
law), that order must be made in open lodge and a record then and there
made thereof.

Readers of our last year's report will recall the fact that a com-
mittee of the Grand Lodge of Florida reporting on the project to build
a Masonic Home and Orphanage, after a most discouraging response
from the lodges, and in the face of their own statement that they did not
think the best way for dispensing the charity of the fraternity was through
the medium of a home, nevertheless recommended the appointment of a
board of trustees for a home and orphange, and that an assessment of
fifty cents per capita be levied towards a permanent fund looking to
ultimate building. This year a constitutional amendment taxing the
lodges $2 for each initiation and fixing the per capita dues at $1.25, of
which amount one dollar of the initiation fee and fifty cents of the dues
were to be turned over to trustees of the benevolent fund, came up for
final action and was defeated, and thereupon the following was adopted :

Resolved, That the resolution appearing on page 321 of the proceed-
ings of the seventy-fourth annual communication of this grand lodge to
make "an annual assessment upon the particular lodges of this jurisdiction
of fifty cents per capita for the establishment of a permanent fund" for
a Masonic home and orphanage, be and the same is hereby rescinded.

Such a per cent of the surplus in the treasury and of the annual dues
as the finance committee might determine was directed to be applied

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to the home and orphanage fund, and the trustees reported $4,072 sub-
scribed by the members of the grand lodge. Moreover, the lodges were
recommended, each to appoint a committee to solicit funds for the pro-
jected institution. A proposition coming in from a lodge to increase the
per capita assessment for the home and orphanage fund from fifty cents
to one dollar, went to the committee on finance, who reported that in
view of the action of the grand lodge already had, no action thereon was
necessary, which we take to mean that the grand lodge has definitely, as
well as wisely, abandoned the idea of building and maintaining a home
by taxation. The grand orator, H. S. Yerger, delivered a greatly en-
joyed address, which for the double reason that it was without notes and
partly esoteric, does not appear in print. Four new lodges were chartered
and two continued under dispensation. In the case of one of the latter the
records show many irregularities. "In some cases they do not show that
the lodge was opened, nor in what degree it was opened upon, though
regular business was transacted." We presume it was the absence of any
certain information as to the lodge being opened which led to the order to
heal those whose making had been accompanied with irregularities, be-
cause if the lodge was lawfuly at labor there could be no question of the
lawful Masonic status of one made therein, no matter what other irreg-
ularities or omissions occurred in his making.

Thomas M. Puleston, of Monticello, grand master ; Wilber P.
Webster, Jacksonville, grand secretary, were re-elected.

The report on correspondence (151 pp.) the third by Past Grand Mas-
ter Wright is, like its predecessors, a paper of great merit and interest.
He gives nearly five and one-half pages to a notice of the Illinois proceed-
ings for 1903, touching the more important matters of legislation, but
largely devoted to a review of our special report of 1901 (against the rec-
ognition of certain foreign grand bodies) which was, after postpone-
ments covering two years, finally adopted at the session he had under
review. Of one of the grand lodges included in the resolution of recogni-
tion, he says :

In 1902 a strong appeal was made by P. G. M. Smith for the recogni-
tion of the National Grand Lodge of Egypt, but the writer was unable
to discern any reasons advanced favoring recognition, other than senti-
mental and personal, which were urged by Brother Smith because he had
spent some time in Cairo, the year before, and had met several members,
of their lodges and had been the recipient of some attention at their hands.

Of our general review, he says :

The correspondence report by Brother Robbins is fully up to his
high standard and contains much that is valuable and interesting, though
he never fails to abuse those who are in any way connected with the
Scottish Rite. Many times his language is somewhat intemperate, un-
necessarily so, thereby losing much of its force and elegance.

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Of the last count in the indictment, that of using somewhat intem-
perate language, we have only to say that we fear it is not overdrawn ; of
the first, that we never fail "to abuse those who are in any way con-
nected with the Scottish Rite," that was written hastily. As we are con-
nected with the rite ourself, the charge could hardly be wholly true. We
feel quite sure that we have referred to many who are connected with the
rite, and who really venerate it, without abusing them. But the claim
of the rite, or for the rite, that it possesses any authority in genuine
Masonry, Free and Accepted Masonry, the Masonry of the Grand Lodges
of Florida and Illinois, is so bald-faced a piece of impudence that our
characterization of it might seem to one who had not studied it so long
and so closely, something akin to abuse. This, however, is something
quite different from abusing individuals.

A very interesting feature of Brother Wright's report — and as val-
uable as it is interesting — is his review of the proceedings of the fifteenth
volume of the transactions of the Lodge Quatuor Coronati, of London,
and of the article in the sixteenth on degrees by the historian Gould,
relative to which Brother Wright concludes :

We think that Brother Gould has proven that, in England, there were
two degrees, while in Scotland, there was but one, and that the severance
of the parts into three degrees was about 1735-8.

This article of Brother Gould's on "The Degrees of Pure and An-
cient Freemasonry" covers much the same ground as (and is in the
nature of a sequel to) the "Digression on Degrees" in his Concise History
of Freemasonry, which adds so greatly to the value of that work.

GEORGIA, 1903.

117TH Annual. Macon. October 2~.

Two past grand masters were present. An eloquent letter was re-
ceived from a third — J. L. Wright, now a resident of Fort Worth, Texas,
which is printed in the proceedings. The envoys of fifty-six grand juris-
dictions were present, Illinois being represented by Thomas J. Carling.

The grand master (Max Meyerhardt) seems to have been amply
justified in saying that the past year had been with them one of unpara-
lelled prosperity to Masonry. He announced the death of Past Grand Mas-
ter James M. MobleY, at four score years, an ideal Mason, a member of
the fraternity for more than fifty years, long a conspicuous figure in the
grand lodge, and, in the words of the grand master, "a great, useful and

72 APPENDIX — PART I.

beloved citizen." Also deceased were thirteen past masters, among them
Geo. R. Barker, who died at the ripe age of eighty-eight.

The grand master waxed hot over the following :

At the last annual communication of this grand body, a resolution
was introduced, restricting the power of the grand master to make com-
mittee appointments by providing that not more than three past masters
should be placed on any committee. The resolution was defeated, but
some who favored it gave notice that the matter would be again brought
to the attention of the grand lodge and its passage urged. Were it not
for this, I would gladly ignore what to many of us was a most unpleasant
incident. As it is, I would be recreant to my ideas of duty were I to
remain silent on this subject.

That the first movement to abrogate or limit the powers of the
presiding officer should happen during his administration, seems to have
impressed him with the idea that its animus was personal to himself.
The two reasons, he says, assigned by the supporters of the resolu-
tion, were that it was a measure of economy, and that by the appointment
of past masters on committees a grand master might perpetuate himself
in office. The fact that the economical issue should be raised just at the
time when their treasury was overflowing with the greatest surplus in its
history, seems to have been responsible for or to have strengthened the
impression to which we have referred. Be that as it may, he insists the
point is not well taken — that the increased enthusiasm and devotion caused
by the attendance of the past masters cannot be estimated in dollars and
cents, and that their wisdom, devotion and loyalty are worth more to the
grand lodge than all the money that could be poured into its coffers. If
these past masters remain at the communication for the full three days
they receive $12, out of which they must pay their railroad fare both ways
and their hotel bill while in Macon, and must lose five days of their time.
Manifestly, there is no speculation in this, for as a rule the past master
in attendance must pay something out of his own pocket for the privilege
of meeting with his brethren.

The idea, says the grand master, that a past master would "barter his
vote for a committee appointment is not only repugnant to every sense of
fairness, but must excite in the breast of every true Mason the deepest
indignation and horror."

We infer from this that each past master has one vote individually.
If this is so, there is a consideration not mentioned by the grand master,
that may have impelled some to favor the resolution. The committees of
the Grand Lodge of Georgia are phenomenal in size. Apart from the
committee on correspondence, consisting practically of one member, and
the committees on finance, grand lodge property, and auditing, consisting
of three each, there are : committee on grand master's address, consisting
this year of 57 members; credentials, 55 members; jurisprudence, 66;

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general welfare, 57 ; appeals and grievances, 69 ; by-laws, 56 ; memorials,
55; returns, 43; charters, 65; relief, 51; unfinished business, 30. These
numbers are not constant. This year the aggregate membership of all
these committees is 614, against 359 last year. This year 178 past masters
were listed by the committee on credentials; last year, 107. From the
grand master's remarks we infer that all present had committee assign-
ments, and by the same token we infer that a large proportion of them
were present because, having such assignments, their expenses were in
part or wholly paid. Here, then, is a voting force equal to that of about
sixty lodges ; and this brings us to the consideration which we said
might have induced some at least to support the resolution, without
reference to the question of such force becoming a make-weight in elec-
tions, and that is, that it impairs the representative character of the
grand lodge.

This has been a burning question in more than one grand lodge, going
on to outright schism in one — which it took years to heal.

The grand master's remarks further warrant the inference that the
gradual expansion of committees had led to the inclusion, we might al-
most say the creation of a large class of recipients of per diem not con-
templated when the original legislation on that subject was enacted. If
this is so, then the fact that the day of large committees antedates the ad-
ministration of the present grand master, ought to relieve his mind of the
suspicion that there was any personal animus in a movement for its cur-
tailment.

Of the Masonic Home (the corner-stone of which was laid on the
first day of the session) the grand master says :

I think I can safely promise that on May 1st the home will be in full
and successful operation. I have already alluded in the report of our
finances to the manner in which this home will be maintained. The
pledges which we made to you three years ago shall be carried out to the
letter. These pledges were that the grand lodge should in no event incur
any debt on account of the home, and further, that no Mason and no
lodge should be taxed for the support of the home. These promises, I
stand here today to renew and to reaffirm. As I have already shown, the
annual surplus in our treasury should reach the sum of from $12,000 to
$15,000, two-thirds of which will be amply sufficient to maintain the home
and the remaining one-third can be kept in our treasury to swell our
yearly increasing surplus.

Inasmuch as the annual surplus by which the Home is to be main-
tained is the product of taxation, the keeping of the pledge not to tax
any lodge or Mason would seem to consist in graciously refraining from
associating the word "Home" with the levy.

Twenty-five decisions are reported, some of which are elementary,
some turn on local law, and some of general application. We select the
following :

74 APPENDIX— PART I.

i. "When application is made for Entered Apprentice degree, and
committee appointed and it is ascertained that the applicant is a Roman
Catholic, what course should he pursued?

I replied that Masonry does not ask to what religious denomination
a man may adhere. If he believes in God and is otherwise worthy and
well qualified, he is eligible to receive the degrees in Masonry.

2. A lodge owning a building which includes a storehouse, cannot
rent said storehouse for saloon purposes. It being contrary to our law
for a Mason to engage in the liquor traffic, surely a lodge of Masons
should not be allowed to derive profit from such traffic.

3. One who is elected to receive the Entered Apprentice degree, but
before the degree is conferred, engages in the busines of traveling sales-
man for a wholesale liquor house, thereby become ineligible to receive
the degrees and the same should not be conferred upon him.

4. Electioneering for office in a Masonic lodge is improper and any
brother guilty of such conduct should be dealt with as for other Masonic
offenses.

Q. One who uses profane and obscene language or who indulges to
excess in intoxicating liquors, should not be made a Mason, and the lodge
which knowingly makes such a man a Mason, is subject to Masonic
discipline.

10. It is a violation of Masonic law for a Master Mason to slander
a brother Mason's daughter. A Mason guilty of such conduct should be
charged and punished.

11. Pending the trial of charges against a Master Mason, he has
the right to vote on a petition for initiation or any other question that
may come before the lodge.

14. One who applies for a dimit and is clear of the books and no
charges preferred against him, is entitled to a dimit. Should charges be
preferred against him, they would have to be tried before the dimit is
granted.

23. The verdict of a court would not be sufficient evidence to con-
vict in a Masonic lodge. The lodge is not governed by the verdict of
the court. A court may find a man not guilty and still he may be con-
victed in a lodge, or vice versa.

24. The question has been several times submitted to me during the
year as to whether the commissioner of a dispensary is eligible to re-
ceive the degrees in Masonry, or, whether, being already a Mason, he
should not be charged with unmasonic conduct, under our present law,
and expelled. As the law now reads, anyone employed in a dispensary
to sell whiskey in ineligible to receive the decrees, or, if already a Mason,
must be charged and expelled. The only question is, shall this law be so
construed as also to include the commissioners, elected by the city or
county authorities, or both, to have charge of the dispensary, but who
do not actually sell whiskey in said dispensary. As the question is an
important and a far reaching one, I decided to bring it before this grand
body for final decision. As there are a number of dispensaries now in
Georgia, I suggest that you investigate this matter carefully and then
formulate such a law as you may think right and proper in the premises.

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We fully concur in number one. The objection that has been raised,
that all Roman Catholics know that the rules of church forbids their be-
coming Masons, and hence that if one becomes a Mason he does it in
violation of what he knows to be his duty, and is, therefore not a con-
scientious man and so unfit to be a Mason, is too specious and far-fetched.
That sort of a rule would exclude every dancing Methodist or card-
playing Presbyterian, but admit an Episcopalian or a Unitarian who does
both. Nos. 2, 3 and 24 should be read together, as they illustrate some
of the perplexities attendant upon putting into legislation what should be
left to the blackball. No. 9 narrowly escapes being in the same category ;
logic goes to strange lengths unless it is corrected by the sense of pro-
portion. No. 4, we are glad to see, assumes the shape of law in Georgia.
No. 10 we would amend by adding to the first sentence or any other man's
daughter. No. n was properly amended by the jurisprudence committee,
who added the words "except on questions touching his own case." No. 14
shows that Georgia, like Illinois, recognizes the right of dimission, and
No. 23 is in accord with Illinois precedents. The far reaching character of
No. 24 led to its reference with cognate matters to a committee of eleven,
one from each Masonic district, to report next year.

The suggestion of the grand master that the request of the grand
lodges of the Argentine Republic and Costa Rica be referred to a
special committee, to report to the grand master, who should be authorized,
if the report were favorable, to effect an exchange of representatives, was
not reported upon by the committee on address. A matter of such moment
should be passed upon by the grand lodge.

Of the large number of miscellaneous dispensations issued, twenty-
three were for lodges moving into new halls. With us no such authoriza-
tion is necessary if the new premises are at the place named in the charter.
Many dispensations were issued to confer degrees out of time, ballot
at called meetings, etc., and mirabile dictu, to confer the Fellow Craft or
Master Mason degree, or both, at one meeting, "without examination or
ballot." We infer that the ballot here referred to is on proficiency only,
the ballot before initiation being held to carry with it membership in the
lodge, because the right to participate in the ballot which makes one a
member, as well as that which entitles one to be entered in any lodge is
an inherent one, not subject to dispensation.

The following time-saving proposition was reported upon adversely
by the committee on jurisprudence, and defeated:

Whereas, Considerable time is consumed at each session of the grand
lodge in roll call to verify the roll of attendance on said grand lodge; Be it

Resolved, 1st. That upon the opening of the grand lodge at each
communication thereof, the grand secretary shall call the roll of subordi-
nate lodges until a quorum of representatives shall answer.

76 APPENDIX — PART I.

2. So soon as it is made known to the grand master, by said call, that
a quorum of the grand lodge is present, the roll call shall be suspended,
and it shall be the duty of the grand master to refer the further verification
of the roll of subordinate lodges and attendance on said grand lodge to a
committee, bereinafter provided for, whose duty it shall be to verify said
roll under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the grand
master, and report thereon to the grand lodge.

3. Tbat a committee of three (3) be appointed by the grand master,
to be known as the committee on enrollment, whose duty it shall be to
verify the roll of attendance on the grand lodge at each communication
thereof.

We can unhesitatingly recommend the methods practiced for many
years in Illinois to secure an accurate roll of attendance and something
more. Here the roll is never called, but when the grand lodge is opened
the committee on credentials reports to the grand master, either person-
ally or through the grand secretary, that representatives of a constitutional
number are present, when business proceeds.

The accuracy of the roll as well as that of the committee on mileage
and per diem is thus secured : The two committees work side by side.
Cards have been sent out by the grand secretary (with the blank returns,)
bearing explicit directions, upon which the representative enters his name
in the line corresponding to his rank, be it master or warden, or proxy ot
either and also the name and number of his lodge. This card is presented
to the committee on credentials, who copy it on their roll, and return it to
the holder, who then presents it to the committee on mileage and per diem,
who enter his name upon their roll and on the card the number of miles
traveled, the amount of his mileage and per diem, and give it back to
him, to be again presented when he returns for his order on the grand
treasurer.

The same course is pursued with the grand officers, permanent mem-
bers, and members of committees ; and so far as the committee on cre-
dentials is concerned, with grand representatives and past masters, not
on the pay roll.

Since this plan was adopted, now thirty-two years ago, the report of
either of these committees has not been read in extenso in grand lodge,
thus saving many hours of valuable time. It is unnecessary to read either
report for verification, because each individual interested therein has
that portion of both which refer to him in his own pocket, and can assure
himself of its correctness at his leisure.

The Grand Lodge of Georgia still clings to its Draconian law by
which brethren are guillotined for poverty or perversity, some fifty-five
being expelled for non-payment of dues, at this session.

A member of the grand lodge died suddenly on the evening of the
first day of the session. The grand lodge assumed the funeral expenses

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and the cost of transportation of the remains, escorted by a committee of
five members, and adopted the following :

Resolved, That the grand treasurer be and he is hereby authorized to
pay the full per diem of Bro. S. W. Millican, past master of Goshen Lodge
No. 71, whose death occurred suddenly at his boarding house in this city
last night while in attendance on this communication of the grand lodge.

Resolved further, That the grand treasurer be authorized to pay the
full mileage and per diem of Bro. W. J. Millican, present master of Goshen
Lodge No. 71. who accompanied the remains of his father to his late
home in Carroll county today.

The grand lodge chartered fifteen new lodges ; exemplified the work
and re-adopted Akin's manual ; sent a message to President Diaz, of
Mexico, congratulating him on his escape from an assassin's attempt upon
his life, and received the reply — "Gracias false todo ;" passed the hat
after receiving and being entertained by the children of Brother Mum-
ford's Industrial Home, and appropriated enough to make the $97.26 thus
collected, an even $500; ordered painted portraits of Past Grand Masters
John P. Shannon and James M. Mobley, and former Grand Secretary
A. M. Wouhin, for its walls; and adopted the following:

Whereas, There are only two grades of offenses know to Masonry, to-
wit : unmasonic conduct and gross unmasonic conduct, therefore, be it

Resolved, That hereafter the committee on grievances and appeals
shall in making their report designate the offenses with which brethren
may be charged by one of these titles only.

Max Meyerhardt, of Rome, grand master; W. A. Wolihin, Macon,
grand secretary, were re-elected.

The report on correspondence (113 pp.) is again by Bro. A. Q.
Moody. We find it, we think, the most interesting and valuable of his
reports, because he has given himself a somewhat freer hand in criticism
while losing nothing in fraternal tone and courtesy. He gives three and
one-half of his limited number of pages to our proceedings for 1902. He
quotes freely the decisions of Grand Master Moulton, and fails to
see the reasonableness of that one forbidding a lodge "to transact any
business involving final action by vote of the lodge, at any meeting after
the work of conferring degrees has begun." He says :

If some important matter has been overlooked, the business could, and
ought, to receive attention after the degrees have been conferred. In this
jurisdiction, the question is always asked if any brother has anything to
bring before the lodge, and this is done to prevent the omission of any
business that ought to receive the consideration of the brethren.

He quotes Brother Moulton's comment on 'the decision, and adds:

Unless for providential reasons, brethren have no right to leave the
lodge room before all business is concluded. They should feel "vitally
interested'' in all matters, which pertain to a proper administration of
lodge affairs.

APPENDIX — PART I.

The end sought to be reached by the decision is a good one, but it is
a question whether it is not better to give the master free rein and then
hold him responsible, than to interfere with his right to direct the order
of business and work. He commends the decision reached by the juris-
prudence committee, approved by the grand lodge, that the grand master
has no right to order the expulsion of a brother who has been convicted
by his lodge and his punishment fixed by it at definite suspension. He
quotes from our last previous report our running commentary on certain
Georgia decisions, reproducing the following remarks relative to one of
them (No. 16) which declared that a Fellow Craft becoming badly crip-
pled in a railroad wreck was thereby disqualified for raising to the third
degree.

In Illinois the doctrine of No. 16 does not prevail; the degree would
no more be withheld from him than he would be turned out should he be
crippled after he had received it.

He asks :

As to No. 16, we would inquire of our learned brother, suppose the
injury from the wreck was of such a nature as to render the candidate
physically unable to comply with certain requirement contained in the
Master Mason's degree, would the brother suggest that a "dummy" be
provided, while the candidate lookr- on as an interested spectator?

Yes, just that, if any point in conferring the degree, that was
the most available way to give him the completest understanding of it.
Because he is left in a condition where he cannot get as much out of the
degree as his physically sound brethren, is no reason why he should not
get all out of it that is possible. The only thing that stands in the way
of a maimed or defective profane being made a Mason, is the landmark.
The landmark was satisfied in this case when the brother was made.
When that landmark was set up "making" was all there was of Masonry,
ceremonially speaking. How long it had been set up we do not know,
but we do know that it was recognized before the time when, by a process
of expansion or segmentation, the one ceremonial gave place to two, and,
later still to three. The one ceremonial still makes one a Mason, clothes
him with a Mason's rights. From this time on he is to be dealt with as
a Mason, a brother whom no misfortune can again make subject to a
restriction which in the nature of things could only be operative so long
as he was outside of the institution.

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IDAHO, 1903.

36TH Annual. Boise. September 8.

This attractive volume, which bears the imprint of a Boise printing
house, is embellished with a half-tone portrait of Joshua M. Cowen, the
incoming grand master.

Six past grand masters were present, as were also the representatives
of fifteen grand jurisdictions, including Stephen Dempsey, of Caldwell,
the envoy of Illinois.

The grand master (David F. Mason) read the death roll of the jur-
isdiction for the year, which happily had left the circle of present and
past grand officers without additional break.

He urged the necessity of drawing the reins tighter in the direction
of temperance, and on his recommendation the following was adopted :

Resolved, That all spirituous, vinous, and malt liquors shall be ex-
cluded from all Masonic banquets given by the constituent lodges in this
jurisdiction, or the members thereof as Freemasons. This resolution does
not abrogate or interfere with resolution No. 158, on page 136 of Masonic
Code and Digest, now in force.

Not having the digest before us we are unable to see whether the
string attached to the resolution, limits its scope. At all events the leg-
islation is to be commended. The strong have no right to subject the
weaker to temptation that may cause them to offend. For thirty years
the Craft of Illinois have reaped only the best of fruitage from this
sweeping declaration on their statute book :

"No lodge shall, on any pretence, introduce intoxicating liquors, or
permit their use as a beverage, in any room used by such lodge."

We cannot, however, commend the legislation which made the follow-
ing a part of their written law :

No lodge in this jurisdiction shall receive an application for the
degrees of Masonry or for affiliation from any person who is engaged
directly, or indirectly, either as proprietor or employe, in manufacturing
or selling intoxicating liquors as a beverage, and every person who,
at the time of the adoption of this section, is a member of any lodge
in this jurisdiction and shall thereafter engage, directly or indirectly,
either as proprietor or employe, in the manufacture or sale of in-
toxicating liquors as a beverage, shall forfeit all rights and privileges
belonging to him as a Mason, and shall be forthwith expelled from the
lodge of which he is a member, but this section shall not be construed to
apply to any person who, at the time of its adoption, shall be a member
of any lodge in this jurisdiction and, at the time of such adoption, in
good standing and engaged in such business.

80 APPENDIX — PART I.

Such legislation invades the proper domain of the ballot whose
blackball is ample for the protection of the fraternity from the intru-
sion of those not of good report, robs the individual voter of the re-
sponsibility as well as the discretion laid upon him by the unwritten
landmarks, and substitutes for the immemorial methods by which
temperance is inculcated as one of the cardinal virtues, a declaration
whose effect, if not whose aim, is to make the fraternity as a prohibition
league an avowed factor in one of the political questions of the day.

In a case where a railroad man, elected to receive the degrees, had
sent in the fees for all the degrees ($50 for the first, $25 for the second
and $20 for the third) with his petition, and who had not been able to
get off from his work to take them, had at the end of about eight months
quit the road, and finding it impossible to join the lodge at present had
asked for a refund of the fees, the grand master properly instructed the
lodge to return them.

The jurisprudence committee had the concurrence of the grand lodge
in saying that unless the lodge voted otherwise it had the right to retain
fee for the degree of Entered Apprentice. We do not know on what
ground the committee based its conclusion, unless — as in cases we have
known — the by-laws of the lodge provided for the forfeiture of that fee
in case of non-appearance ; but we do know that we are in full accord with
repeated Illinois decisions that lodges can eat no man's bread for
nought ; that no lodge can make a by-law which will stand against the
equities — if it cannot (either from its own inability, or because from his
inability or from the exercise of his own free will the candidate fails to
give it the opportunity) give an equivalent for what it has received, it
must return it.

The grand master's decisions that no documentary evidence could
take the place of proof by due examination in deciding upon the admis-
sion of a strange visitor; that a lodge acquired no jurisdiction over a
Master Mason by rejecting his petition for affiliation; and that in a case
where a candidate had been declared elected notwithstanding two mem-
bers averred that they had each cast a blackball, their right of objection
afforded them ample remedy, were approved, as was also the following,
from the committee on jurisprudence, in response to a request doubtless
suggested by irregularities :

Your committee has considered the question of R. W. Theo. W.
Randall, grand secretary, viz : What construction should be given Section
7, Article XIII, of Grand Lodge by-laws?

Your committee answers: It means that every candidate receiving
a degree must pass a satisfactory examination in open lodge before he
can receive the next degree ; and but one candidate at a time can receive
the first section of the first and second degrees; and but one candiate at a
time can receive the first and second sections of the third degree. In

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other words, not more than one candidate can receive the obligation in
either degree at a time.

The grand lecturer reported that the promulgation of the Idaho
work had been greatly hindered by the neglect or refusal of some of
the lodges to carry out the regulations of the grand lodge, his remarks in
this connection implying the continued use by some masters, of various
keys foreign to the jurisdiction in face of a standing resolution, and
recommended more stringent legislation to secure uniformity. This rec-
ommendation was ignored but a less strenuous one, that the grand lodge
consider the feasibility of providing sufficient salary to keep the grand
lecturer costantly in the field for a year, bore fruit. The salary was
raised to $1,000.

Requests for recognition from the grand lodges of Costa Rica and
Valley of Mexico, were reported back by a special committee, and at
their request sent to the committee on correspondence for investigation
which the special committee had not time to make. Grand lodges,
like men, learn wisdom from experience ; it is said that a man never
wakes up his second baby to see it laugh, and Idaho seems inclined
to go slow since it got its foot into the Belgian business. In 1899 the
grand lodge entered into fraternal relations with the Grand Orient
of Belgium, for the rarely wanting and never safe reason that some
other grand lodge has led the way. The next year, having ascertained
that the Belgian body was in full fellowship with the atheistical Grand
Orient of France, the grand lodge notified the former, by resolution, that
unless it should officially notify the Grand Lodge of Idaho before its next
annual communication, that it had severed its friendly relations with the
French Grand Orient, the grand secretary of Idaho would then be in-
structed to withdraw the commission of the representative of the Grand
Lodge of Idaho to the Grand Orient of Belgium.

The grand secretary (Theophiltjs W. Randall,) thus relates his
subsequent experience, or lack of it :

I respectfully and fraternally call the attention of the grand lodge to
the resolution of the committee on jurisprudence, adopted at the session of
1900. I obeyed the instructions and forwarded a copy of said resolution
to the grand secretary of the Grand Orient of Belgium, also to W. Bro-
ther Albert Kruger, of Antwerp, the grand representative of this grand
lodge, immediately after the close of the session of that year. Up to date
I have not even received an acknowledgment of the reception of the
communication. I hope the grand lodge will take some action in accor-
dance with the spirit and letter of the resolution. We have waited three
years for an answer ; neither the grand secretary or our grand represen-
tative have had the courtesy to acknowledge the receipt of the notification.

It is easier to keep out of a tangle than to get out of one.

The grand lodge chartered one new lodge, and on the night of the
first day of the session was the guest of the Boise Lodge No. 2 at an ex-

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emplification of the degree work, and on the second night, of the members
of Boise Lodge and the ladies of Ada Chapter No. 8, O. E. S., at a
reception and elegant banquet.

Joshua M. Cowen, of Mountainhome, was elected grand master;
Theophilus W. Randall, Boise, re-elected grand secretary.

The report on correspondence (91 pp.) is again by Bro. George
E. Knepper, and in ability and interest more than maintains the promise
of its predecessor, his first effort. In includes a notice of the Illinois pro-
ceedings for 1902. Referring to Grand Master Moulton's address, he
says :

A number of interesting decisions were rendered. "No signs will be
made at the altar during balloting," somehow doesn't fit our practice.
This, too, in view of, the fact that we started Masonically in Illinois.

Nor does it fit the practice which prevailed in not a few lodges in
Illinois. While the decision itself is not of vast importance, the duty to
which it relates — that of balloting on admissions — is perhaps the most
important encountered within the tiled lodge ; so important that the
proper place for its performance is at the altar, and we have always felt
that any formality, such as a pause and an appropriate salutation to the
chair, tending to make the deposit of the ballot more deliberative and
less perfunctory, was a help, however small towards a desired end — a
realization of the gravity of the act.

Brother Knepper refers at some length to our criticism of the Idaho
duplication of the campaign of the false pretences which culminated in the
"Massachusetts Departure" — as the enactment which made the Grand
Lodge of Massachusetts a dependency of the Holy Empire, is usually
called — copying, without denial of their correctness, several of our state-
ments, and ending with a naive confession that we correctly called the
turn on the whole business in 1882. When the imperialists were beating
their torn toms in the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts and shrieking about
the Rite of Memphis, we said there wasn't one of them who cared a rap
about the Rite of Memphis ; the lynchers were after another fellow.
When nineteen years later the same rite was brought forward as a scare-
crow in the Grand Lodge of Idaho, we said :

We think we take no hazard when we venture the assertion that
there isn't a Memphis riter among the Masons of Idaho. But it is more
than possible that some one not authorized by the Supreme Council of the
Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction, is peddling the degree of that rite,
possibly at cut rates, but at whatever price, is 'endamaging the revenue'
of that division of the Holy Empire."

He rejoins thus :

Peace reigns in Idaho. Clandestine Masonry received its quietus
through that resolution. Wyoming has followed Idaho in protecting its

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Blue lodge members from "degree peddlers" and that is about all that
there is in it.

The italics are ours. They serve to emphasize his confession that we
had hit the nail on the head. None of the imperialists engaged in en-
gineering this plan to make their grand lodges make-weights in a
strife over who shall enjoy the profits of conferring a certain file of side
degrees, ever had the Rite of Memphis in his mind when they had the
words "clandestine Masonry" on their lips. Neither did he have real
Masonry in his mind at such time, he has always meant clandestine Scot-
tish Riteism, whose concerns have no more business in the grand lodge
than clandestine Pythianism. The sole concern of the grand lodge is
Masonry, the Masonry which through its lodges it administers. If there
is anything apart from this within its territory which it knows to be
Masonry and which it does not thus administer, but permits some other
body to control within that territory, not only without warning or protest
to the Masonic world, but which on the contrary it assumes to vouch for
as Masonry, it has abdicated all claims to be and also all seeming of being,
the sole and exclusive source of Masonic authority within its boundary
lines as conceded and recognized by other grand lodges.

INDIANA, 1904.

84.TH Annual. Indianapolis. May 24

This volume is adorned with the portraits of Grand Master George
E. Grimes and Past Grand Master Calvin W. Prather, grand secretary.

Sixteen past grand masters graced the occasion with their presence,
as did the envoys of forty-six grand lodges, Illinois being represented by
Benjamin F. Willoughby.

The grand master (William E. English,) was spared the necessity of
announcing the passing of any present or past grand officer. In other
ways his lines were cast in pleasant places, as the following bears
witness :

It is with justifiable pride that I call your attention to the fact that the
year has been the most prosperous, the most harmonious and the most
successful ever known to the Grand Lodge of Indiana. The increase in
membership has been the greatest ever experienced in the history of the
grand body, two thousand eight hundred and seventy-one new names
having been added to our Masonic roll since the last annual report, mak-
ing a total of forty thousand one hundred and ninety-nine Master Masons

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in this grand jurisdiction. Not only have we enjoyed this gratifying in-
crease in numbers, but we have likewise experienced in every direction
a proportionate measure of substantial and material prosperity. Peace,
harmony and fraternity have walked in sweet companionship within our
ranks and we have been brought to realize to the fullest extent "How
good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity."

The general harmony was further emphasized by the fact that only
four appeals came up from the whole jurisdiction.

The decisions reported by him are clear and to the point, as the
following (numbered for our convenience) will show:

2. Can a worshipful master's election secured by unfair and unmasonic
methods, and misrepresentations of ability and fairness of predecessor,
be declared null and election set aside by the grand master?

Answer — No. The grand master has no authority to set aside an
election held as prescribed by law. The only remedy is through .charges
for unmasonic conduct regularly preferred.

3. Should the charter of the lodge hang in lodge room, tyler's room
or social room?

Answer — In the lodge room.

4. Is an objection to a petitioner for the degrees effective prior to
the ballot being taken?

Answer — No.

5. Can a lodge make an assessment upon its members not provided
for in its by-laws?

Answer — No.

Number two is new to us, but we think correctly decided. To the
answer to No. 3, we would add the words, if anywhere (unless a special
Indiana regulation requires it to be displayed.) No. 4 is in accord with
the view we have always held, i, e. the right of objection does not come
into existence until the immemorial method of excluding has failed to
exclude. No. 5, we think, rests on sound general law.

His analysis of the law of objection is in accord with the general
consensus of opinion, viz :

Relative to Objections: Objection on the part of any member of the
lodge present will exclude a visiting brother. The worshipful master
cannot require reason for objection nor can the master over-rule objection.

Objection after the ballot is taken and before degree is conferred acts
as a negative ballot.

Worshipful master must arrest conferring of degrees when objection
is made.

When objection is recorded before initiation, petition can come before
the lodge again only as in the first instance.

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Worshipful master has power to arrest conferring of degrees if he
finds the candidate unworthy.

His statement of its application to visiting brethren is well-nigh
universally held to be correct, and is in accord with our enacted law, but
we have never yet satisfied ourself of the right of any lodge to exclude any
Mason in good standing, at such time as the lodge is engaged in the
business of Masonry (such as conferring degrees — wherein it is acting for
the whole fraternity,) as distinguished from the business of the lodge,
which latter includes the determination of whom it will confer the degrees
upon, because therein is involved the question of membership in the lodge
itself, as well as that of membership of the fraternity at large. Under
Illinois law, objection after the ballot and before initiation is not the exact
equivalent of a negative ballot, because while it stands as a bar against
the candidate for only one year — like a negative ballot, it may be with-
drawn at any time prior to the expiration of that period, and he may
then receive the degree without a new petition.

Indiana, like Illinois, recognizes the unqualified right of a Mason in
good standing to dimit without assigning reasons therefor, if there are
no charges pending; and Illinois would doubtless hold the decision of
Grand Master English that "Dimit is no bar to later charges being
preferred," (in his late lodge, if he remained within its territory, or if
the offence charged was committed therein, though he might subsequently
have migrated) to be good law. All his decisions were approved.

The question as to how many candidates could be obligated at the same
time in the different degrees had been frequently raised, and in the
absence of any explicit law on the subject, and as no custom had become
sufficiently established to become one of common usage, the subject was
sent to the committee on jurisprudence, who reported (and the grand
lodge adopted) the following:

All the ceremonies of initiation in the several degrees conferred in
the lodge contemplates the introduction of only one candidate in any of the
initiatory ceremonies in either degree. This is especially the case in the
initiatory ceremony of the first section of the entered apprentice degree,
when no more than one candidate can be properly admitted and obligated
at the same time, and any attempted evasion of the rule can not be per-
mitted under any circumstance whatever.

The nature of the ceremonies in the second degree do not preclude
the introduction of more than one candidate, but the number thus admitted
should be limited, and in no case more than can be received and passed
without marring the impressiveness of the ceremonies.

The same may be said of the first section of the third degree, but
not with the same conditions in regard to what is to follow, and your
committee would recommend that not more than three be admitted to the
first section of the Master Mason's degree at the same time, and then
only when there is an absolute necessity for receiving more than one in

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order to advance candidate in due time, and dispose of accumulated work
on hand.

It would be a matter of great interest if the brethren of the guild
would report the law, or the usage, prevailing in their respective jurisdic-
tions. In Massachusetts, where we were made, while only one could re-
ceive the first section of the initiatory degree at the same time, in the
remaining degrees a plurality of candidates could be simultaneously re-
ceived in the first section.

If a custom has ever prevailed in any Illinois lodge (unless it were
in the Mormon lodge at Nauvoo, which never got beyond the dispensation
stage,) at variance with the following explicit terms of our present law,
we are not aware. of it:

* * * * Nor shall any lodge confer any portion of the degree of
Entered Apprentice, or the first section of the degree of Fellow Craft, or
any part of the Master Mason's degree, on more than one candidate at one
and the same time.

The grand master reported the following:

It will doubtless be remembered by many of the worshipful masters
present that at the last annual meeting of the grand ladge, a man, whom
we afterward found to be a brother and a member in good standing of a
lodge in Indiana, was discovered in the corridors of the Masonic Temple
selling cipher rituals, passing his individual cards and a leaflet of what he
had to sell and price thereof. This being clearly a violation of the rules and
regulations, one of the officers of the grand lodge interfered and stopped
him. The matter being reported to me, I ascertained the name and number
of his lodge and ordered charges preferred therein against him for viola-
tion of the rules and regulations of the grand lodge. The lodge of which
he was a member promptly took the matter up, preferred charges upon
which he was found guilty and a penalty inflicted.

The following recommendation was adopted, which led us to look for
a skeleton report such as emanates from the corresponding committee in
Illinois, but we find that while working towards it they have not reached
it, as the report on five cases covers some seven pages.

It is the judgment of your grand master that reports of the committee
on grievances and appeals should in every instance only embrace a state-
ment of the case and the finding of the committee, the same to be published
in the printed proceedings, all other matter in reports from the committee
on grievances and appeals io be filed in the office of the grand secretary,
but eliminated from the printed proceedings.

In the Illinois proceedings of 1903 all that appears in print of the report
of our committee on appeals covering six cases, is comprised in a single
page. We find that the plan is meeting with very general commendation.

In 1877 the committee on ways and means recommended that the
salary of the grand secretary, which was fixed by the by-laws at $1,200
per annum, be reduced to $1,000 per annum, and the same was concurred

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in by the grand lodge. No attention was paid to the method of procedure
by which alone under the law the by-laws could be amended. Thereafter
through the remaining one year of Grand Secretary Bramweli/s service
and four years of Grand Secretary Smythe's service, the salary was paid
at the reduced figure. In 1886 Brother Bramwell put in a claim for
$200, as justly due him on account of salary, based upon the failure of the
grand lodge to amend its by-laws, and it was allowed and paid. This
year a similar claim on account of the shortage on the salary of the late
Brother Smythe, amounting to $800, was presented, allowed and ordered
to be paid to his family, the grand lodge concurring in the opinion of the
committee on ways and means, that the body should not seek to avoid pay-
ing a penalty of violating its own by-laws, and the craft everywhere will
say amen.

At the annual communication of 1903, the grand lodge, in view of the
fact that all past grand masters, but four, had received jewels appropriate
to their rank, instructed the grand secretary to procure one for each of
these four and that they be presented under the direction of the grand
master. The presentations were duly made on appropriate selected oc-
casions, that to Past Grand Master Daniel McDonald by Past Master
Geo. H. Thayer, acting as the deputy of the grand master ; that to Past
Grand Master Christian Fetta by Past Grand Master Martin H. Rice,
similarly deputized; and those to Past Grand Masters Rice and Lucien A.
Foote by the grand master in person.. The acknowledgments of the
several recipients in grand lodge were marked with the eloquence of real
feeling, as were also the address of Senior Grand Warden Lincoln W.
Cravens, who in hehalf of the grand lodge presented the retiring grand
master (English) a similar jewel, and the reply. They give exceptional
value to some pages of the Indiana volume, in the eyes of those who have
followed the careers of these eminent brethren, some of them through
many years.

The grand lodge chartered six new lodges, adopted a new form of
petition for the degrees, differing from the form heretofore in use in
that it requires the applicant to state whether he has been rejected by
any other lodge within a year; established the office of grand inspector (at
a salary of $600 per annum and his actual expenses not to exceed $3 per
day) working annually from some central point in each county, whither
the books of each lodge therein will be brought up for inspection and the
officers will come to be instructed; killed a proposition to establish an
affiliation fee of not less than five dollars, and adopted a resolution pro-
testing against the conversion of Memorial Day into a day of frivolity
and sport, and urging every Mason to do his utmost to prevent such per-
version.

George E. Grimes, of Ladoga, was elected grand master; Calvin W.
Prather, Indianapolis, re-elected grand secretary.

88 APPENDIX — PART I.

The report on correspondence (163 pp.) is as its title of "Indiana
Annual Masonic Review" fore-shows, the work of our old friend and co-
lahorer of many years ago, Past Grand Master Daniel, McDonald.
Advancing years — we will not say "age" — cannot wither, nor custom stale
his variety and bonhomie. He forfends all angry back talk at the outset
by announcing his intention to criticize "with mildness, moderation and
decorum," a promise to himself which is well kept. We observe, however,
that this does not interfere to prevent his keeping up with the procession,
a pace which makes the two b's in our name look like one to him.

His notice of Illinois is of the sixty-fourth annual communication
(1903,) and betokens a careful examination of the proceedings. Referring
to the laying of the corner-stone of the Illinois Masonic Home, he says :

The contract price of the building was $36,926.00, and the board of
trustees in their report asked an appropriation of $15,000, which was
ordered, to complete the building, so that $52,000 have already been ex-
pended before the first section of the "Home" is completed. The home is
being erected near Sullivan, Illinois, on the farm of the late Robert Miller,
who made a bequest conditioned on its erection, and in order to comply
with the provisions of the will, the grand lodge took steps providing for its
erection. The grand lodge, however, having got its "foot in it," will likely
be compelled to provide funds for its final completion and management.

And of the report of our committee on appeals and grievances :

This is the way they reported the cases. "No. 1. Yorktown Lodge
No. 650. Recommended that the action of the lodge be sustained. Ordi-
narily in most grand lodges, it would have taken from one to five pages to
have reported that case. We are glad to notice that several of the grand
lodges are proposing to adopt the Illinois plan f giving only the name of
the case and the judgment of the grand lodge in regard to it, so far as the
printed proceedings are concerned.

Brother McFatrich's oration is drawn upon for an extended quota-
tion, and is fitly characterized as being throughout a real gem of polished
oratory. The Illinois report on correspondence receives attering notice,
and of its author he says :

He devotes two pages of his review of Indiana to our legislation on the
ritual question, and arrives at the conclusion that the suppression of the
printing of the action, of the grand lodge leaves the world at large in igno-
rance as to the possible existence of an official Indiana ritual.

It will be observed that he does not lift even a corner of the pall that
covers the "world at large" and that he leaves even the "Sons of Light,"
outside of Indiana, in the bondage of darkness.

From his concluding survey of the field, we take the following :
In the matter of the establishment of Masonic homes there has been
a perceptible lull during the past year. Several grand lodges which con-
templated the erection of homes made a thorough investigation into the
cost and management of the homes established in this country which
resulted in deciding to abandon the enterprise for the present. In the

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investigation that led to this decision it was found that the annual assess-
ment of $i on each Mason in the average jurisdiction would not be
sufficient to sustain a Masonic home without donations or bequests, and
that this amount of money collected and expended by the local lodges for
the support of those in need of charity would be far preferable.

He reports a perceptible loosening of the iron-clad rule in many of
the grand lodges prohibiting the occupancy of Masonic halls by chapters
of the Order of the Eastern Star, and gallantly expresses the hope that
"our wives, widows, mothers, sisters and daughters," belonging to this
order, may have universal recognition to that extent, at least ; of which
we may at least venture to say that we trust it will be very far in the
sweet by and by, before that sort of recognition is extended to his widow.

INDIAN TERRITORY, 1903.

30TH Annual. Tishomingo. August 13.

This pamphlet has for its frontispiece a half-tone portrait of the
installed grand master (Phillip Doddridge Brewer).

Nine past grand masters were present. We find no record of the
number of the diplomatic corps in attendance, but we notice that the
Illinois envoy, Past Grand Master Silas Armstrong, of Wyandotte, was
present.

The grand master (Royal Jonathan Allen,) announced the death
of only one past master, William Costigan, chairman of the committee
on appeals.

Among the miscellaneous dispensations issued were two to bury non-
affiliates with Masonic honors. It ought not to require executive permis-
sion to permit a Mason dying in good standing to receive what is justly
his by the higher authority of birthright.

The decisions reported are generally in accord with Illinois law.
He decided in a case where a member of a lodge had been convicted in
the courts of selling whiskey, and a committee had been appointed to
investigate but had failed to report in a reasonable time, a new committee
might be appointed ; also that in a case where a brother had been ex-
pelled, a motion to reconsider could not be entertained — there was no
remedy but by petition for restoration ; also, that in a trial where the
question of guilt or innocence was first taken on the general charge of
"unmasonic conduct" (which he styles merely a prelude to the specifica-
tion which states what the unmasonic conduct was) and the charge sus-

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tainecl, and subsequently the vote was taken separately on the specifications
and neither of them sustained, the outcome was an acquittal, and the sub-
sequent putting the question on grade of punishment with the result of
declaring the accused indefinitely suspended was wholly error.

All his decisions were properly approved.

The grand master presented the applications of the Grand Lodge
Valle de Mexico and the Grand Lodge of the Argentine Republic, for
recognition recommending that the former be sent to special committee,
but both went to the committee on correspondence for report next year.

He has a strong word for the Masonic Orphans' Home, whose
trustees report that its assets amount to $16,159.37. Of this amount
$5,088.23 was raised during the year by the financial agent of the home.
Past Grand Master H. M. Furman, who in his report to the grand lodge
takes a rose colored view of the prospects of the Home, and if his
position that every one is derelict in Masonic duty whose belief that the
building of a home is not the best method of Masonic charity, is strong
enough to keep him from contributing in this direction is correct, then
his plea for help from that quarter is a strong one, otherwise not.

The grand lodge chartered thirteen new lodges and continued one
under dispensation; instructed the custodians of the work not to confer
degrees on actual candidates at the schools of instruction held at its an-
nal communications ; directed that the record of the lodge should not
show the character of the report of committees on petitions, but only
the fact of their having reported, a step in the right direction, but one
which we think might be improved upon by the adoption of the Illinois
regulation which substitutes for written reports endorsed on the petition,
a private verbal report by each member of the committee of inquiry to the
master, who announces to the lodge only the character of the report, i. e. —
whether favorable or unfavorable, and the degree of unanimity; followed
the adoption of the report of the committee on necrology, by giving the
funeral grand honors to the memory of Josiah H. Drummond, to whose
character and personality the committee had paid tribute, and ordered
printed the address of Grand Orator D. H. Lindbaugh, who was present,
but was seized on the morning of the first day of the session, with an illness
so serious as to confine to his room and prevent its delivery. It was an
eloquent essay to answer the question "From Whence Came You and
Whither Traveling?"

Philip D. Brewer, of South McAlester, was elected grand master;
Joseph Samuel Murrow, Atoka, re-elected grand secretary. The report
on correspondence (45 pp.) is the work of Thomas Chauncey Humphry,
past grand master of Arkansas, now master of South McAlester Lodge
No. 81.

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Brother Humphry crowds a great deal into his limited number of
pages, including a page notice of our proceedings for 1902. He heartily
endorses Grand Master Moulton's strictures on undue publicity of Ma-
sonic matters, whether given by pen or voice. Refering to our report he
says that nothing is there said of their jurisdiction, having overlooked
completely our three page notice to be found on page 83 of our report of
that year. May he have better luck next time.

IOWA, 1904.

6ist Annual. Sioux City. June 7.

As usual with the "Annals of the Grand Lodge of Iowa," the volume
itself commands attention. In paper, print, margins and make-up, it is up
to the Iowa standard, and in embellishment it does not fall below. In
addition to an elegant steel engraved portrait of the retiring grand master
(Charles C. Clark,) whose long upper lip and chin bespeak the type ot
man that makes things go, it contains a photogravure group of the present
and past grand officers present at the Sioux City communication ; half-
length portraits of Grand Secretaries J. J. Mason, of Canada, and Jacob
H. Medairy, of Maryland, set in the text of Grand Secretary Parvin's
notice of their passing, and again in their memorial pages as are similarly
set portraits of Col. John Scott and Martin Porter Miller, respectively
past grand master and past grand treasurer of Iowa; and vignette portraits
of Sumner Miller, the incoming grand master; Edwin G. Dilley, deputy
grand master ; Frederick W. Craig, senior, and Frank Beswick Whit-
aker, junior grand warden, -and Charles Slade, grand treasurer. The
novelty of the volume is a reproduction of the stereopticon views illus-
trating Bro. J. W. Barry's study of the height of the pillars of the
porch of the temple, and the novelty of the proceedings (or what would
be a novelty in any grand lodge but Iowa), was the reception in the grand
east with Masonic honors, of the grand commander of Knights Templars
of the state. They rarely let anything get away from them in that arid
jurisdiction, especially in hot weather, when —

"The summer it summeth the someness of things ;

Sweet is the song which the doodle-bug sings ;
The thirster he thirsteth the livelong day,

While the bumble-bee bummeth the hours away."

Nine past grand masters were present, but no grand representatives,
as Iowa has not yet returned to the fleshpots of a court.

92 APPENDIX — PART I.

The address of Grand Master Clark is of the beguiling kind. You
begin to skim it for information and soon find yourself reading it closely
for its style and for its meat. He announced the death of Past Grand
Master John Scott in his eightieth year. He was a veteran of two wars,
the Mexican and the civil, in the latter of which he was commissioned a
captain in May, a lieutenant-colonel in June and a colonel in August, 1861.
Both the grand master and the chairman of the committee on necrology
(the Rev. Dr. Coxe, a former favorite at the Round Table) were im-
pressed by the same lines in his character. The latter gives his impressions
in a few words :

He was rugged in character as in stature and feature ; reticent to a
degree ; thoroughly known by but few, but by these held in highest regard.

We knew him only through personal correspondence, but in that way
we got close enough to him to greatly value him for his ability and honesty.
He was elected lieutenant-governor of Iowa in 1867. Dead, also, was
Martin P. Miller, past grand treasurer, at the early age of forty-five,
a quiet spirit, a gentlemen always in the true sense, characterized by the
grand master in one of his occasional quaint surprises of speech as a
"dependable" friend. The grand master asks what to do with small weak
lodges that have run down without discoverable cause in some instances,
of which he says :

Several have held no meetings for over a year, save on election
night. Two were only able to hold election by virtue of a mandate from
grand master's office, and then succeeded in getting out a bare quorum.
They generally manage to find one faithful brother to represent them at
grand lodge, but his attendance is an embarrassment to himself, as he
knows he is drawing more for his mileage and per diem than the entire
amount his lodge contributes to the grand lodge funds.

"One faithful brother" is good, but given a lodge that is alive enough
to be entitled to representation at all, the knowledge "that he is drawing
more for his mileage and per diem than the entire amount his lodge
contributes to the grand lodge funds" should cause him no embarrass-
ment, because all mileage and per diem systems are established with that
end in view, the theory being that it is fairer to have the burden of the
cost of representation rest on the whole fraternity, where it rests with
entire equality, than that it should rest with crushing or prohibitive weight
on the weak and distant lodges where each lodge is required to pay the
expenses of its representatives ; and also that it is better for the fraternity
that the weak and distant lodges should be represented than that the
power should be centralized in the strong lodges and those nearest the
seat of the grand lodge. The system of paying the cost of representation by
a general capitation tax is entirely equitable, because each individual mem-
ber pays the same amount for that purpose, whether the membership of his
lodge numbers fifteen or five hundred.. The committee to which the subject

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was refered took the wise and sensible view, we think, in declining to try to
make any general rule that would reasonably fit all cases, taking the ground
that regard should be had to the conditions surrounding each particular
case, and made provision for the investigation of these conditions, either
by the grand master or his special representative, in the case of such
lodges as had reported no material progress for any considerable period, or
whose membership has dwindled to less than the constitutional number
required for a lodge under dispensation. There can be no doubt that as
a rule a weak lodge is a menance to the well being of the fraternity, but
there are exceptions, where the failure to grow numerically is in itself an
index of their sterling strength.

The grand master brought in only a few of his decisions, avowedly
those upon points where the code appeared to him not sufficientlly de-
finite. The first seems to us to be a strikingly illustrative and successful
example :

i. Can the petition of a mulct saloon keeper be received?

I confess the query was a surprise to me. I had supposed the law so
enacted that this class was certainly barred. Section 297 of the code ex-
cludes one engaged in "the intentional sale of intoxicating liquors in
violation of the lazvs of Iowa." When it was enacted prohibition was in
full force, and, ipso facto, saloon keepers were ineligible, but with the
adoption of the fearfully and wonderfully constructed mulct- law the
case in changed. This state law provides : "Nothing in this act contained
shall be in any way construed fo mean that the business of the sale of
intoxicating liquors is in any way legalized. * * * * Nor shall the
assessment or payment of any tax for the sale of liquors as aforesaid pro-
tect the wrong-doer from any penalty now provided by law, except that
on conditions hereinafter provided certain penalties may be suspended."
Just where this leaves the matter might well puzzle the traditional Phil-
adelphia lawyer, but the common sense view would seem to be that if the
saloon keeper strictly keeps the provisions of the mulct law he is not sell-
ing in violation of law. Technically, perhaps, no sale can be lawfully
made, in view of unrepealed prohibition, but it seems a failure of justice
to call him a law breaker who sells strictly according to the mulct law,
and therefore holding this view I have ruled such a person eligible for
membership, but on account of the gravity of the question have directed
that petitions from such persons be held up until after this session of the
grand lodge.

The Masonic fraternity generally has spoken in no uncertain tones
in declaring itself unalterably opposed to the business of liquor selling,
and while in many notable cases there are men so engaged who would be
a credit to any lodge, they are decidedly the exception. It may well be
doubted if this great order, with its glorious traditions, its high ideals,
and its exalted morality has any place for them as a class, but if it desires
to exclude them it should, in my opinion, amend the law.

Apart from its interest as illustrative of the intricate nature of ques-
tions which are liable to come before a grand master, we have copied the
above largely for information, to the stock of which contained therein,

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we will add that furnished by the committee on jurisprudence, but not until
we have paused a moment over the last paragraph. We pause to say thar
while we agree that as a class the liquor sellers should be kept out of
the fraternity, it is not the method of Masonry to try men by classes,
but as individuals, whether for exclusion or inclusion. The terms of
its law do not permit generalizations that shall divide the possible material
for Masonry into more than two classes — those who obey the moral law
and are of good report on the one hand, the "immoral" and "scandalous"
men on the other. To determine to which of these two divisions the indi-
vidual belongs is, not under the law of Masonry as interpreted by the un-
varying usage of more than one hundred and fifty years, the province of
legislation by the grand lodge, but is one of the responsibilities attaching
to the individual voter in the constitutent lodge when he is invested with
the ballot possessing the absolute and unquestioned power of veto.

The theory of all this anti-liquor legislation is that the lodges cannot
be trusted, or, rather that the best men in the lodges cannot be trusted to
determine the fitness of an applicant for the privileges of the fraternity,
for it must be borne in mind that under the law requiring unanimity, a
favorable verdict by the lodge is really the verdict of that one of its
members who is the most exacting on the score of morality. If his
moral sense cannot be trusted upon this one phase of human conduct, is
he fit to be trusted upon moral questions into which this phase does not
enter. When we reflect that if Masonry was not born in the tavern it
was cradled there, and that in the decadence of convivial excesses and
the growing appreciation of the evils of the drink habit, Masonry has
more than kept abreast of the communities in which it flourishes, so that
it had become prior to the first prohibitory legislation by grand lodges,
more difficult for any one who lived by pandering to that habit to get
entrance into the fraternity than into any human organization surround-
ing it, it would seem that its phenomenal success as an ally of temperance
might have satisfied even the most impatient that no necessity existed for
tampering with its ancient law.

Commenting on the grand master's decision, the committee on juris-
prudence say :

You will have in mind that by the terms of the law the prohibition
as to such persons is made to depend upon his selling liquors in violation
of the lazvs of Ioii'p,, and thus we are brought to the simple question :
Is one selling liquors under the provisions of the mulct law, and not in
violation thereof, selling liquors in violation of the laws of Iowa? An
affirmative answer sustains the action of the grand master. A negative
one overrules him. The doubt arise upon some apparently inconsistent
or conflicting language of the mulct law, as that the act shall not be con-
strued to mean that the sale of intoxicating liquor is in any way legalized.
Your committee need go no further than to say that the court of last re-
sort in the state has construed the law with reference to all of its provi-
sions, and holds that sales made in pursuance of the provisions of the

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terms of the mulct law are not illegal. This, to our minds, is conclusive
of the question, and we recommend that the action of the grand master
be approved.

Another of his decisions is the following:

5. Section 273 is as follows : "At a stated meeting there must be
present seven members of the particular lodge, including the master or
a warden."

Section 146 provides that no Master Mason shall be allowed to vote
or hold office until he has passed an examination in open lodge upon that
degree. I have, therefore, held that the membership contemplated by
section 273 is of those entitled to vote; the number cannot be filled by
those who have not passed the required examination. To hold otherwise
might put it in the power of one brother to absolutely control lodge
matters, decide upon questions of the most consequence, and commit the
lodge to a course which might involve great trouble and expense.

The committee recommended its approval, believing it to be a correct
interpretation of the law, while we hold such a law unwarrantable and
against public (Masonic) policy. We have copied the decision here in order
to say that the ruling in no wise affected the power of one brother "to
absolutely control lodge matters," etc., whenever a question is decided by a
majority of only one vote. But that it is a one-man decision is a fanciful
view of the situation, because it really requires that four out of the seven
shall be in accord, and each of the four counts just as much either of the
four, no more, no less.

The result of having flattered the women of the Order of the Eastern
Star into a belief, or quasi belief that they are a co-ordinate power in
Masonry is showing itself in Iowa as it has elsewhere, as is shown by
the grand master's remarks relative to a Masonic Home :

We note with interest the project fostered by our sisters in this
state of the Eastern Star of building a home. The concentrated wisdom
of this grand lodge, attained after years of investigation and with the
waste of much brain tissue on the part of eminent brothers, carefully
chosen, we fondly believed had forever definitely settled in the negative
the question of a Masonic home. But our sisters, in obviously blissful
ignorance of the fiat, or calmly and serenely overruling the finality of our
decision, having apparently a mind of their own, have decided that the
home is a necessity, have started a building fund, and are apparently in
dead earnest in the belief that this is the wise, prudent, and inevitable
irse 10 pursue. We can't afford to have a schism in the family. We
believe we are right, but we may be wrong. There should be unity of ac-
tion and concentration of effort. It might be well for this grand body to
appoint a committee of steely-hearted, steadfast-minded brethren to do a
little missionary work among our sisters.

Seriously, however, if there is to be a Masonic Home in this state it
ought by all means be under the supervision of this grand lodge, but
with the hearty co-operation of the Eastern Star, whose members are
entitled to unstinted praise for their wholesome sympathy and never-
failing support in all our laudable undertakings. While it seems on all

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the testimony that our decision presents the very best plan of doing divine
charity, yet it is far better, if we have made a mistake, to frankly acknowl-
edge it and array ourselves on the side of the wise man who changes
his mind than to line up with the fool, who, like the snapping turtle, having
gotten a hold, hangs on indefinitely without knowing why.

It is doubtful if a single member of the Eastern Star organization
ever read the report which in the Grand Lodge of Iowa led to the decision
that the institutional plan of grand lodge benevolence was less desirable,
less economical, and less adapted to meet the exigencies of all classes
of those needing relief and care, than the extension of relief, from a
grand lodge fund, to the needy in their own homes and localities, the
most exhaustive and instructive report on the subject ever presented
to ,a Masonic body within our knowledge. Unhampered by the knowl-
edge obtained by that inquiry, the Stars have decided right out of
hand that a Home is the correct thing and have launched the project with-
out a probable thought of whether it would be burdensome to the frater-
nity out of which the money to build and maintain it must ultimately
come.

The grand master reports that the system of ritualistic instruction by
district schools for that purpose which last year replaced the traveling
custodian system has secured a higher standard of proficiency at a greatly
reduced cost. Upon his recommendation the district grand lecturers in
attendance on the grand lodge school of instruction are to receive the
same mileage and per diem as the representations, and the grand lodge.

The grand lodge, for sound reasons, we think, sustained the report of
the committee on appeals and grievances on a case in which an appeal
was taken from the action of the master in overruling the action of his
lodge in voting to pay rent for the Eastern Star organization occupying the
same hall. The report of the committee (Past Grand Master Fellows,
chairman) says:

Disregarding all technicalities, we are disposed to regard the record as
fairly raising two questions, both of which your committee deem impor-
tant, and which we have given careful attention :

First. Was the action of the lodge in voting to appropriate lodge
funds to pay rent for a hall for the use of the order of the Eastern Star
legal and within the scope of the authority of the lodge?

Second. Had the worshipful master the power or right, under the
circumstances as shown in this case by his ruling, to overrule the action
of the lodge?

Upon the first proposition your committee will state as briefly and
concisely as possible its views :

The funds of a Masonic lodge are primarily made up of fees for
admission to membership and dues provided to be paid by members, and
are imposed upon all members alike.

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The members of a lodge are equal owners of all the lodge funds. The
primary object for which a lodge provides and holds its funds is for the
purpose of carrying out the purpose of its organization, such as the
defraying of ordinary expenses of the lodge and promoting the objects of
charity. Great care should be exercised by lodges to guard against any
diversion of its funds from legitimate purposes, in which all the members
of the lodge have a common interest.

In this case the proposition was to pay rent of a hall for the use of
an order entirely independent of that of Masonry. While we have the
greatest regard for and feel an interest in the order of the Eastern Star,
and earnestly desire to cultivate and maintain the most cordial relations
with the order, yet we must not overlook the fact that it is not a Masonic
institution. It is in no way in its organization legally connected with the
Masonic Grand or subordinate lodges of Iowa. The financial affairs and
obligations of each are entirely independent of those of the other.

While many Masons are members of the Order of the Eastern Star, a
very large number, probably a large majority of the Masons of Iowa, are
not members of that order. It is the right of every Mason to insist that
the funds of his lodge shall all be devoted to the legitimate purposes of
Masonry.

Our conclusion is that the lodge in this case acted illegally, and that
its action cannot be sustained. * * * *

We recommend that the action of the master of the lodge be ap-
proved.

In our review of Iowa last year we referred to, but did not copy the
following proposed amendment to the code, quoting, however, from the
report of the jurisprudence committee thereon which shouldered it over
for a year.

"It shall be deemed unmasonic to use the word 'Masonic' as the
name or part of the name of any corporation or institution not under
direct control of the grand lodge, and any Mason guilty of violating
this section shall be dealt with as for other unmasonic conduct. This
section shall not apply to corporations formed for the purpose of building
or owning lodge property."

The attitude of the committee on jurisprudence is substantially the
same as last year — veiled in plausible euphemism the report holds that the
opposition to the use of the word "Masonic" in the insurance business
(which in Iowa monopolizes this mercenary use of the word) is senti-
mental, that they are not aware of any particular prejudice to the fraternity
resulting from such a use of the word ; that the prestige and good will
acquired by falsely creating the impression in the mind of the insurable
public that the faith of Masonry is pledged for the payment of policies
are legitimate assets of the insured and of the business (as we are war-
ranted in saying by their reference to the danger that the proposed legis-
lation would "prejudice the interests of the insured, or others who have
rights obtained legally and in good faith) ; and closes with the recommen-

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dation that the proposed amendment be not adopted. The report was
adopted and the amendment shelved.

The grand lodge chartered three new lodges and continued one under
dispensation ; learned through the trustees of the grand charity fund that
the average sum expended by them for relief during the recess, for the
last three years, has been $1,164 (less than would have been eaten up by
salaries on the institutional plan) ; avowed its determination to bend its
energies towards making its library purely Masonic and not miscellaneous ;
exchanged greetings by wire with the Grand Lodges of Wisconsin, Ne-
braska and Nova Scotia then in session ; agreed with the elaborate arche-
ological, architectural, scriptural report of a special committee, that the
height of the pillars of the porch was eighteen cubits ; and directed that the
custodians inquire into and report next year upon the proper method of
examining a visitor, both as practiced in Kansas and in other jurisdictions,
and as the subject is purely an esoteric one we may expect the report to be
written in nothing but invisible ink.

Sumner Miller, of Guttenberg, was elected grand master; Newton R.
Parvtn, Cedar Rapids, re-elected grand secretary.

The report on correspondence (181 pp.) is again the work of Bro.
Joseph E. Morecombe, the pretty allegory of whose introduction, written
to enforce another idea, illustrates what shapes of beauty love may conjure
out of the formless ashes of bereavement.

Illinois is included in Brother Morcombe's review, his six-page notice
being of our proceedings of 1904, betokening a careful examination of the
work of the year reflected there.

Three paragraphs taken from the report of our committee on obituaries
(and well illustrating his thought), are prefaced with the remark that
the committee "have caught the very essence of Masonic teaching on life
and death and destiny — the noble teaching that what is part of God's plan
cannot have final ending in the grave. Not so appropriate, to his mind, is
the address of Grand Orator McFatrich, of which he says :

The address of Bro. James B. McFatrich was, regarded as a piece of
oratory, of extreme beauty. Yet had it not been for the word "Masonry"
judiciously placed here and there in his brilliant periods, it might as well
have served to inspire a Fourth of July audience. We have not yet been
able to change our opinion, previously expressed, that the proper function
of the grand orator is to directly instruct the brethren in matters Masonic
rather than to merely entertain with generalities, however happily ex-
pressed.

We are a little startled at his estimate of the resources of our ink-
horn, whence we are fabled Jo draw at will (like the prestidigitateur
from his one magic bottle, wine, water and perhaps the Iowa tipple —
ginger ale), vitriol or oil. We were not, however, so startled as not to

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be gratified on finding that we were in accord in our estimate of merits — or
demerits as compared with other methods — of the institutional plan of dis-
pensing Masonic charity.

He discovers a note of criticism in our reference to the fact that the
Odd Fellows, Knights of Phythias, Elks and the Oriental Twinklers, kept
upen house at Waterloo in honor of the grand lodge, and says :

Yet we hasten to assure Brother Robbins that there was no incon-
gruity in this affair. The societies mentioned represented the citizens of
Waterloo, and through their organizations merely dispensed the hospitali-
ties of the city. The members of the grand lodge were honored guests
and these others the hosts. Iowa Masonry is to the full as exclusive as
as any body of craftsmen on earth, but to carry this solemn air of ex-
clusiveness into social affairs and to refuse to accept courtesies because
some other society had offered it would savor, it strikes us, of absurdity.

We quite agree with our good brother in all this, except possibly in
his estimate of the exclusiveness of Iowa Masonry. If he will carefully re-
read that portion of our remarks anent the hospitalities extended — which
for his convenience we here reproduce from his quotation — he will see that
he missed the point of our criticism, perhaps because of the vagueness of
the "note."

"The general participation of other sodalities of Waterloo — Odd
Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Elks, and Order of the Eastern Star — in
providing the visitors with entertainment produced an atmosphere in
which the detailing by Grand Master Gardner of his formal reception in the
character of grand master of Masons by the grand lodge of Odd Fenows
awakened no sense of incongruity, and doubtless intensified his expressed
feeling that it was 'good for fraternities to fraternize.' "

He will see that "incongruity" did not refer to the participation of
other sodalities in the general welcome and hospitalities extended to their
visitors by the city of Waterloo, and that the word was chosen as a mild
euphemism for what seemed to us a lack of perception of fitness, which
permitted the grand master in his address to the grand lodge, to refer
to his reception in another institution. If he will then turn to the balance
of our remarks as quoted by him (which we have not reproduced), he
will see why — quite apart from the reception of grand commander of
Knights Templar, as such, with honors of craft Masonry at the session
of the Grand Lodge of Iowa now under review — we could not quite agree
with him as to the exclusiveness of Iowa Masonry.

He does us the honor to quote our remarks in reply to his doubting
observations as to the prophetic ability of our ancient brethren, meaning by
that term, in this instance, the fathers who shaped things in 1717-1723, and
says :

Again we would venture to dissent from the conclusions of our learned
brother, or rather to hold back from the extreme limit to which he has
pushed his argument. We are not competent to hazard on opinion as to

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the claims of other hodies, as against Brother Robbins's dicta of authority.
But reverting to what at least implied in our remark, that change and
improvement and progress is compatible with wise conservatism, we do
not think the proposition can be gainsaid. New conditions ever require
new legislation and new methods of procedure. "Our ancient brethren
were a wise lot, not because they could forsee the future, but because they
could see the past." says our honored colleague. The Chinese were once
upon a time equally wise in their backward vision, when to head off

Tartar incursions they built a huge wall of exclusion, behind the security
of which they fossilized. Had Masonry been content with the simple
rigid observances and regulations which these wise old worthies found
sufficient for their limited opportunities and contracted environments,
think you that the craft could have ever expanded to its present propor-
tions? The organization which is not susceptible of change is afflicted
either with dry rot or ossification. And all this over our recommendation
to grand lodge that Costa Rica be recognized as among the Masonic
sisterhood of jurisdictions. Our brother represents the extreme opinion

(and none could do it better) that outside of Anglo-Saxondom there is no
true Masonry, because elsewhere it is the illegitimate issue of an adulter-
ous liason. ' Isn't it just possible that our brother has conjured up a bogey
with which he frights himself?

Conservatism and reactionism are not convertible terms though often
used as such. The fixity of fundamental laws .is no bar to progress, nor
is the discovery of the principles which underlies those laws radicalism,
although it is at the outset so regarded. If those fundamental laws lie
along the same lines as does the thought that widens with the process of
the suns, they permit, they foster progress ; whereas any institution
whose fundamental lines do not lie along those lines is already marked
for decay. Our brother's intimation that but for material change Masonry
could not have assumed its present proportions, is getting the cart before
the horse. The truth is that but for the growth and expansion of those
principles of equality and brotherhood which are the essence of modern
altruism, and of which Masonry was the prophet and the first exemplar,
no environment would have existed to permit the expansion of the frater-
nity to its present proportions. The fundamental principles of Masonry,
inwrought into both its government and its rituals, are identical with
those recognized by the world as the motors of progress socially and
politically. The Masonry which has kept closest to the landmarks has
expanded most rapidly. A few years ago Theodore S. Parvin, of Iowa,
and J. Q. A. Fellows, of Louisiana, probably as well informed Masons in
that branch of Masonic knowledge as existed anywhere, agreed in fixing
the Masonry which acknowledges the supremacy of the landmarks, the
Masonry of the grand lodge system, as comprising nineteen-twentieths
of the alleged Masonry of the world. Where the dissent from the Ma-
sonry of the original plan of Masonry has been the greatest the growth
has been the least.

But this argument drawn from the numerical growth of the insti-
tution, while it shows how idle is the talk of the illiberality of. those who

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■hold that dissent in the fundamentals works forfeiture, standing in the
way of the growth of the institution, does not touch the all-important
question of ethics. By no lapse of time nor consensus of numbers can the
obligation, voluntarily assumed, to preserve inviolable the conditions upon
which alone the Masonry we inherit was committed to our charge, be
outgrown or lifted.

No circumstances can arise that can warrant us in consenting to
divide the government and propagation of Masonry with an organization
which cannot be identified as Masonry by a reference to the fundamental
conditions whose unequivocal and unreserved acceptance by us constitutes
the sole basis of our claim to exercise any voice whatever in the matter.
, Brother Morcombe this year furnishes a subject index to his report,
which, it goes without saying, adds greatly to its value.

IRELAND, 1903.

175TH Annual. Dublin. December 28.

The frontispiece of this fifty-one page pamphlet is a photograph of his
grace, The Duke of Abercor-n, grand master of Freemasons in Ireland,
painted by order of a committee, the grand officers acting in behalf of the
Irish Craft, and unveiled at a special communication of the grand lodge
held December 16, 1903. It was presented by the deputy grand master Sir
James Creed Meredith, and accepted on behalf of the grand lodge by the
grand master in a brief speech, full of grateful appreciation and closing
with expression of the hope that when his successor had been elected the
brethren of the future would look with affection upon the face of one
who, by their kindness, had already been for a period of, he thought,
eighteen years grand master of Ireland.

One-half of the pamphlet is taken up with the address of the deputy
grand master, which since the incumbency of Sir James Creed Meredith
has come to be looked for as a regular feature of the annual St. John's
Day communication. It is in the nature of a review of the more impor-
tant Masonic events of the year, and of the question which have engaged
the attention of their widely scattered craft. Of course much of the address
is chiefly of local interest, except that the equation of personality always
touches a wider circle than any one man's acquaintance. Of the dead of
the year Brother Meredith says :

I have not today, brethren, as I have had on so many former oc-
casions on St. John's Day, to refer to a long roll of those who have been

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called from our midst by the hand of death, but two brethren who last
year were on the list of the past officers of this grand lodge have since
been called away. Maxwell Charles Close, of Drumbanagher, who for
some time represented his county in Parliament, was a brother who for a
great many years took a most active and energetic interest in the Masonic
order in this country, and many years ago he filled for a considerable time
the office of grand secretary of the Grand Lodge of Ireland. That office
he resigned long ago, but he continued to a much later date to hold one
which was much dearer and of much greater interest to him — he was
provincial grand master for his own province, for a very much greater
length of time. It was my good fortune on more than one occasion to be
brought in contact with my Brother Close, as the provincial grand master
of Armagh, and no brother could take a more lively or warmer interest in
Masonic affairs than our Brother Close did. But, brethren, he held yet
another office, he was for years the representative of the Grand Lodge of
England at this grand lodge. One other brother who was a past officer
of the grand lodge, was also removed by the hand of death. Our Brother
Marks was for a period of three years our grand organist. He was for a
much greater number of years grand organist of the provincial grand
lodge of Munster. I recently said a few words in this grand lodge about
his services to the order, and it is not necessary that I should now say
more.

(The deputy grand master has succeeded Brother Close as the repre-
sentative of the Grand Lodge of England.)

Referring to changes in their representative corps he thus refers to
our own jurisdiction:

In Illinois, Bro. Thomas E. Miller has been appointed our repre-
sentative in the place of a brother who was well known, not only all over
America, but I think I may say all over the Masonic world, as an active,
energetic, well instructed, and most erudite Mason. Our Bro. Wiley
M. Egan, was well known, at any rate, to those who are deeply versed in
the antiquarian aspect of Masonry and his death has left a blank which
will not easily be filled.

The end foreshadowed in the following has, we think, been realized :

For years past there has been a growing desire amongst the Queens-
land brethren that there should be formed there an independent grand
lodge. There were working in Queensland for many years past provincial,
or, as they call them in England, District Grand Lodges. There was a
District Grand Lodge of England, a District Grand Lodge of Scotland
and there was our own Provincial Grand Lodge. These three bodies
worked with the most entire harmony in the colony, but they thought
that the time had come when they might fairly look to establish an
independent grand lodge, and having considered the matter amongst
themselves very carefully, they came to the conclusion that the most
fitting man in the Colony to be the first grand master was the brother who
for the last six or seven years has held the office of provincial grand master
under the Irish constitution, and they approached our Brother Hutton,
practically asking that, if the grand lodge were formed, he would be their
first grand master. His answer at once was that he held office there as
the representative of the Grand Lodge of Ireland and of his Grace the
Duke of Abercorn, our grand master, and that it would not be fitting or
right that he should take any part in the projected movement without in

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the first instance, consulting his own grand master at home, and the Grand
Lodge of Ireland, and accordingly he communicated with the Duke and
with the grand lodge, with the result that the Duke of Abercorn acting upon
the invariable practice of this grand lodge, gave his consent and approval,
and an answer was sent out from the grand master and the Grand Lodge
of Ireland that they were perfectly willing and anxious that an independent
grand lodge should be established in Queensland, provided only that the
proper steps were taken in order that the grand lodge might be founded
with all the ceremonies and safeguards that we Masons look upon as
essential in the founding of any grand lodge.

It is but just to say that in the frictions that have attended the transi-
tion from provincial to independent grand lodges in the British colonies —
whether growing out of a desire for primacy, or from a disinclination of
the provincial or district grand officers to let go of the authority they
have once exercised— we think the lodges and brethren under the Irish
constitutions have been the least bumptious and troublesome.

He reports that a petition had recently come before the board of
general purposes for a provincial grand lodge in South Africa, where no
less than six warrants for new lodges under the Irish constitution had been
granted during the year. Fourteen new warrants had been granted else-
where, making twenty in all, and the year 1903 the record year of the
grand lodge.

Heretofore the power to permit degrees out of time has resided
wholly with the grand master and his deputy, but the length of time re-
quired for communication with distant colonies made this power prac-
tically unavailable there. During the year the law had been changed by
giving that dispensing power to the colonial grand lodges ; the law was
even further relaxed by the addition of the following paragraph :

In lodges abroad, not under the superindendence of a provincial grand
lodge, an interval of one week between each degree may be held sufficient
in the case of candidates who produce evidence of exigencies of time
or distance analagous to those of naval or military service, but the cir-
cumstances justifying such exception must be deemed satisfactory by
resolution of the lodge, and must be forthwith notified to the grand
secretary's office together with the dispensation fee of one pound.

The comparative laxity of the laws in neighboring jurisdictions works
the same sort of dissatisfaction there that it does on this side of the

Atlantic ; he says :

Our law is very strict that no subordinate lodge shall initiate into
Freemasonry any person who is not a resident in the town, or country, or
immedate neighborhood where the lodge that proposes to admit such
person meets, without communicating with and receiving a satisfactory
report from the lodge meeting near his residence, and therefore we cannot
initiate without full inquiry any one hailing from either England or Scot-
land. Their law is not as strict as ours upon that subject, and I am sorry
to say cases have come to my knowledge in which persons who would not
be received into our order in this country have gone across the channel

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and been received into lodges working under sister jurisdictions, and such
receptions place us as Masons in a very serious difficulty. It may be of
rnteresl in connection with this matter that you should know that in both
England and Scotland the law as to a single blackball excluding is not so
very definite as it is with us.

The address to the king presented by the grand lodge on the occasion
of his visit to Ireland is printed and also his reply, in which he says, in
part :

I rejoice to hear of a newly awakened spirit of hope and enterprise
among my Irish people, which is full of promise for the future. It will be
a source of profound happiness if my reign should be coincident with a new
era of social peace and of industrial and commercial progress in every
part of Ireland.

I regret my inability to make an individual acknowledgment to each
of the bodies that have taken part in this demonstration of good will to
myself and my family, but I recognize that the manifold activities of Irish
life are very fully represented here.

We observe that the numbers of the twenty lodges warranted during
the year begin with No. 313 and skip along up to 370, while we find on
the register of lodges a number as high as 1009; whence we infer that
their law, unlike that of Illinois, permits the second use of a number that
has once become vacant.

The Duke of Abercorn, grand master, was re-elected. Sir James
Creed Meredith remains deputy grand master; Lord Castledown grand
secretary ; Henry E. Flaville deputy grand secretary ; W. J. Chetwoode
Crawley secretary of Grand Lodge of Instruction. The address of all the
grand officers is Freemason's Hall, Molesworth street, Dublin.

KANSAS, 1904.

48TH Annual. Topeka. February 17.

Kansas sends out this year a beautiful volume bearing the imprint of
a Leavenworth printing house, rich in matter tastefully edited, and finely
•embellished with a prettily embossed cover, a facsimile of the elegant jewel
presented to the retiring grand master, and with portraits of Past Grand
Masters Bestor G. Brown, Moses S. Adams, John M. Price, Owen A.
Bassett, Isaac B. Sharp, Jacob Rush and William D. Thompson, and
of Past Deputy Grand Master Edward A. Smith. Each of these is. set
over against a biographical sketch of its subject, save that of Brother
Brown, which makes the frontispieces of the volume, and that of Brother

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Thompson, which is set opposite the tasteful memorial tablet which tells
•of his death during the year.

A prelude to the opening of the grand lodge was an entertainment
given by the children of the Masonic Home, assisted by the Amphion
•Quartette and Mrs. Frank S. Thomas, of Topeka.

Eleven past grand masters were present, and the representatives of
thirty-six jurisdictions, including Past Grand Master Matthew M. Miller,
of Topeka, the envoy of Illinois. Present also was Past Grand Secretary
Erasmus T. Carr, who occupied the southeast from 1861 to 1870, both
inclusive.

Distinguished visitors, who responded eloquently to their introductions
were Grand Masters James R. Killian, of Colorado, and William F.
Kuhn, of Missouri, and Tandy A. Dunn, grand junior deacon, of Mis-
souri. The echoes of the 133rd psalm, as chanted by Past Grand Master
Shaver at the conclusion of the grand chaplain's prayer, moved Brother
Kuhn to refer to him as that "Sweet Singer of Israel," which lets the out-
side world into another of Brother Shaver's accomplishments.

The grand master (Bestor G. Brown,) thus opens his brilliant and
very able address :

Result does not equal resolve. The Divine Mathematician has such
laws in his algebra of human effort that man's equation must be written,
result equals resolve divided by two, plus regret. The gratification of
achievments, no matter how great, is never complete. As the possession of
a great power exhilarates so does it stimulate the consciousness of imper-
fect achievement and brings the blemish of regret to the fruit of labor.

The necrology of the year embraces but one name in the circle of past
and present grand officers — William D. Thompson, who was elected
grand master in 1883. He died at 63. A native of Ohio, a soldier in the
civil war, a citizen and Mason profoundly respected and beloved, he was
dignity itself in the chair. In that respect, says Past Grand Master Dewey,
no grand officer in Kansas ever excelled him.

The committee on necrology pay high tribute to the memory of Past
Master Moses Sarbach, the deceased chairman of the committee on cre-
dentials, who had held that position for the last seven years.

The question of establishing life membership by enacting by-laws hav-
ing been raised in several of the lodges, the grand master sought informa-
tion by inquiries on the subject submitted to the North American jurisdic-
tions, and gives a digest of the replies in an appendix to his address. Of
this he says :

The concensus of opinion seems to be that the life membership by-law
is unwise, especially if it provides for the exemption from dues through
the payment of a lump sum. Proper safeguards do not surround the

106 APPENDIX — PART I.

financing of such lump sum payment, and instead of its being made to
produce a revenue which will discharge the annual taxes of the member,
it is dissipated in the general fund.

Practical life membership through exemption from dues after con-
tinuous payment through a given period of years, he thinks contains
merit and finds its support in the broad proposition that one who has
borne the burden and heat of the day is entitled to the refreshment and
rest that comes in the cool shades of eventide ; with which we agree,
buf to which we would add that it is better for the lodge and the fraternity
to have his occasional presence and constant loving good will through
continued membership, than the indifference and sourness of one whose
multiplied years, interests and responsibilities lead, through non-attendance,
to forgetfulness of dues until irritation and non-affiliation result.

However, he thinks it a practical solution of this branch of the ques-
tion that the provision of their law permits a lodge to remit the dues
of one whose long service or financial condition justifies such exemption.
His recommendation is quite explicitly reflected in the report of the
committee on jurisprudence (concurred in by the grand lodge) :

It is recommended, therefore, that the grand lodge should, at
least, express itself as recommending that lodges do not enact a by-law
which provides life membership by the payment of a lump sum, or even
by the continued payment of dues for a given period of years, depending
upon the true Masonic spirit to invoke the operations of By-Laws No. 117
in all cases of merit.

Turning the "Illinois" in the appended digest of replies, we find the

following :

Has no law on the subject of life membership though lodges may
provide for the same by the payment of a fixed fee or through continuous
payment for a number of years. No exemption from grand lodge dues.

This erroneous information manifestly came from consulting the
"Blue Book" (Illinois Code), the latest edition of which does not contain
the amendment to section 1, article 8, part 3, adopted in 1898, the action
growing out of the discussion of the subject of life membership by Grand
Master Owen Scott, in his annual address in 1896. It is found in the
following:

Section. The payment of annual dues is a duty incumbent upon
every member of a lodge, and the neglect or refusal to fulfill this duty
shall be (except for good cause) an infraction of Masonic law and a
violation of a Masonic covenant, and shall subject the delinquent to lodge
discipline, and no lodge shall authorize or create any form of life mem-
bership or in any manner exempt any of its members from the payment of
dues. Provided, however, that a lodge, by a majority vote, may remit
the whole or any portion of the dues of any of its members then due.
Nothing herein shall be construed to affect any rights heretofore acquired
by any member of a lodge under the by-lazes of any constituent lodge.

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE. 107

The italics identify the words embodied in the section by the amend-
ment.

The generally splendid condition of Masonry throughout Kansas,
improved above all former years, serves, the grand master says, to em-
phasize the unfortunate state of affairs existing in some lodges. Looking
for the causes of this, he cites several factors, among others the following:

Among the prominent factors in this undesirable condition of affairs is
the incompetency of secretaries. Either a total indifference to the duties of
the office, or else a lack of capacity, retards the business growth of many
lodges. Another factor in this condition is to be found in a class of secre-
taries, who by reason of age and years of service, assume an authority over
the affairs of Masonry which even a grand master would hesitate to exer-
cise. The well-meaning, though halting master, who comes to the east in
such a lodge, finds himself speedily cowed and overawed by a secretary who
assumes to shape the legislation of the lodge and makes the master his ser-
vant. Such a secretary is more undesirable than an incompetent one.
Masters are in part responsible for this condition of affairs by not qualify-
ing themselves and asserting their prerogatives. There are other cases
where secretaries totally neglect their duties, and the operation of our law
does not permit their removal unless formal charges be preferred against
them, which every master should be slow in doing.

He cites also the commercial spirit which looks to large numbers and a
full treasury; the total disregard by many of the several lectures of the
ritual ; the indifference and discourtesy of masters and secretaries to re-
quests of grand officers for information, and the susceptibility of grand
masters who are so impressed with the genuineness and warmth of the
courtesy and fraternal feeling which greets them on visiting these very
lodges, bent on correction, which leads them to hesitate and finally fail to
exercise the authority which is theirs to correct those who have ignored his
requests when absent.

He thinks many of these evils may be corrected through the inaugura-
tion of the district deputy grand master system, which, on his urgent rec-
ommendation, endorsed by the committee on jurisprudence, the grand lodge
took the initial steps toward adopting.

The splendid self reliant spirit with which the craft of Kansas met the
exigency precipitated by the terrible June flood in the Kaw valley, and
the discrimination shown in handling the relief fund, merit all the encomi-
ums bestowed by the grand master. Of the latter phase he well says :

There were many lessons to be learned in this relief work which estab-
lish principles that should more generally govern the disbursement of pub-
lic charity. When the dispensing of Masonic aid in the face of such a dis-
aster is placed on the basis of reimbursement for losses, it then ceases to
be an act of benevolence, but one of business. To hold the thought that
Masonic membership constitutes any claim whatever upon the fraternity
at large for the reimbursement of business losses in such disaster is to place
the fraternity on the basis of an insurance company, and if that be the

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proper idea of Masonic assistance, then we must admit that we are a most
poorly managed corporation, for our rate of premium is too low to justify
the payment of such losses.

The grand master refrained from reporting any decisions directly, hold-
ing that a careful study of their statutes will reveal that every case is thor-
oughly covered by the law, and interpretation thereof by further language
only increases the chances of confusion. He therefore directs attention to
a few "points of law" in the nature of keys to the questions which seem to
be most likely to be misunderstood. Thus he cites (by chapter and para-
graph) to a civil statute, of whose effect on the question of lodge jurisdic-
tion he says :

The civil statute referred to gives an elector the right to proclaim his
domicile, under certain restrictions. A petitioner for the mysteries of Ma-
sonry, who may be engaged in traveling pursuits, ought to proclaim, in good
faith, .some point to be his domicile and exercise the right of franchise at
that domicile. This would clearly settle all questions of lodge jurisdiction.

Unless we fail to comprehend him, the following seems neither to be
happy as an illustration of his general proposition nor as a statement of

law.

It is difficult to understand how a lodge would seek to waive jurisdic-
tion over a resident of its community when that resident has never peti-
tioned said lodge. Such generous action is, however, frequently attempted,
and while it bespeaks the kindly spirit of the lodge so acting, it likewise
proclaims its unfamiliarity with the law.

It does not seem to us difficult to understand how a lodge might for
any reason which to it seemed good, be willing to waive whatever claim it
might have under the law. All that the law of territorial jurisdiction, so far
as it relates to profanes, recognizes as pertaining to the lodge in a given
territory, is, as correctly defined by the Illinois code, "the exclusive right on
the part of the lodge to accept or reject all original petitions for the degrees
from persons residing within its territory." The law does not imply that
the lodge touches or can touch a profane within its bailiwick so long as
he does not seek to touch Masonry. If he does this, he must do so in
conformity with the rules laid down by Masonry for the management of
its own internal affairs. One of these rules recognizes the lodge of his resi-
dence territory as having the exclusive right to entertain and pass upon his
application to become a Mason. Almost universal usage in this country, and
nearly as general explicit law (either enacted or established by judicial de-
cision) recognizes the power of the lodge to waive this exclusive right at its
discretion. Kansas regulations may forbid such a waive ; if so, we submit
that for the benefit of outsiders to whom the Kansas code is not always
readily accessible, but who enjoy good things as much as the native Kan-
san, it should have been quoted.

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE. 109

The grand master gives a history of the steps by which the Kansas
Masonic Home was established, being launched with a board of seven-
teen directors, nine of whom represented the grand lodge, two the grand
chapter (Royal Arch), two the grand commandery, two the Scottish Rite
and two the Eastern Star. Subsequently the number was reduced to
nine, five from the grand lodge and one each from the four bodies
above named. Pending a proposition to further reduce the number of the
board, the grand chapter of Royal Arch Masons relinquished its right to
appoint a director; the grand commandery expressed a willingness to do
so if the other bodies did, but —

The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite does not have a representa-
tive form of government. Its affairs in Kansas are under the supervision
of an officer appointed by the government body at Washington. This
brother has received his appointment since the establishment of the
Masonic Home. He is an ardent supporter of the Masonic Home and an
enthusiastic admirer of its achievements. The proposition to formally
relinquish the representation of the Scottish Rite on the Masonic Home
Board has been submitted to him, but he has declined to assume the
responsibility of making such relinquishment.

The deputy of the Holy Empire in the Valley of the Sunflower may be
comparatively new to the duties of his position, but he evidently has
sufficiently caught on to the imperial policy to know that the supreme
council never lets go of anything.

However, the grand master strongly urged that the control of the
home should be absolutely in the grand lodge, which was accomplished
by adopting the folowing :

Resolved, That the control of the Kansas Masonic Home be placed
in a board of nine directors, four of whom shall be the council of adminis-
tration of the grand lodge, four of whom shall be elected by the council
of administration of the grand lodge, and one of whom shall be appointed
by the Grand Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star.

The council of administration is a body peculiar to Kansas among the
grand lodges of the United States, in a measure akin to the "board of
general purposes in England," or the "grand committee" in Scotland,
which runs the business of the grand lodge during the recess.

Some of the unforeseen or at least unconsidered limitations and dis-
advantages of the institutional system of benevolence are beginning to
attract the attention of our Kansas brethren. The grand master says :

No proper provision has ever been made at the home for the isolation
and care of the sick. Again, the appointments are such that the bright,
joyous faces of the children are seen at table with the often sad lines of
the aged. Some years ago a needed extension was made to the property, in
which an error was committed, now apparent to all, in building out of
harmony with the other portion of the property, in order to save expense.

110 APPENDIX — PART I.

The board has recognized that any further additions to the property
should be made in keeping with the original plan and with a view to the
utility and appearance of the property in future years. It has wisely invoked
the assistance of a competent architect, and has had prepared a general
plan of the grounds as they might appear after the many additions which
the needs of the future may require. It has also had prepared a plan
contemplating the enlargement of the home at the present time, providing
much-needed facilities for the sick and apartments for the separation of
the old from the young.

He feels assured that the grand lodge will never permit the Home
to suffer for want of funds for proper maintenance, and it is to be hoped
that this is true so long as it is maintained at all. We judge, however,
that the readiness of the craft to endure taxation for it may likely be
tested in the near future ; speaking of an excess of expenses over the
revenue of the grand lodge in the last ten years, accounted for by an
appropriation from the general fund of $5,000 for the Home, he says :

It is not recommended that the revenue of the grand lodge should be
immediately increased, but it is deemed wise that attention should be
directed to this condition of affairs to the end that the valuable and
creditable work now being carried on may not be impeded nor the small
balance in our general fund drawn on too heavily for deficits.

The grand master has some admirable reflections on what constitutes
true Masonic charity, and truly says that "Charity in thought, charity in
speech, charity in action, these are the never-dimmed and sparkling jewels
with which a Mason should decorate his breast." This is the prelude
to his statement that with the assistance of the deputy grand master the
good services and kind offices of other brethren, many trials which tended
to disturb the peace and harmony of lodges had been discontinued, the
brethren reconciled and conditions of good fellowship established. There
is no higher line of service than this and for his work therein he deserves
great credit, but we do not think that even so high an end can be held to
justify, however much it may justly be pleaded in condonation of a law-
less act, self-confessed as in the following, unless the conditions are such
that injustice must be the i>ifitable outcome of the continuance of the trial.

It has been necessary for the grand master on several occasions to
issue positive orders to lodges not to proceed with trials, though the lodges
had voted to entertain the charges. Such proceeding, perhaps, may not
be justified by statutory law, but the law of love and kindness can beN
pleaded to justify the act.

The grand master bespoke careful and kindly consideration of the
report of the special committee appointed a year previous "to consider the
advisibility of preparing an official cipher, the wisdom of correcting the
language of the standard work, and the proper rendering of the Masonic
honors."

The committee report on the last named subject first, the grand lodge
adopting its conclusions, as follows :

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE. Ill

As a result of research and personal inquiry, the committee feel justi-
fied in saying to you that the grand honors of Masonry are three, viz :
private, public and funeral. The private grand honors are the signs and
dueguards of the three degrees. The public grand honors are given by
striking the palms of the hands together "three times three," as now
used for the private grand honors in this grand jurisdiction. The funeral
grand honors are as they are now used in this grand jurisdiction.

Now if Brother Shaver will tell us how the funeral grand honors
are given in Kansas, we shall have the whole thing in a nutshell.

As a sort of "curtain raiser" for the report now under review, which
was presented on the last day of the session, on the proceeding evening
"the Master Mason's degree was exemplified (in Orient Lodge No. 51, the
several stations being occupied by the officers of the grand lodge) in the
standard dramatized form with full costumes and accessories."

It is said that the circus has been popular for 10,000 years and doubt-
less will always remain so. But it does not follow that it is the best in-
strumentality to impress upon its votaries the beauty of dwelling together
in unity in the bonds of an equal and trusting fellowship. We have no
doubt that the groundings were deeply impressed by this dramatization
with full costumes and accessories, but we seriously doubt whether it
was the best preparation for the dispassionate consideration of the ques-
tions involved in the report of the committee on ritual. Apart from the
question whether the Masonic idea is not lost in the glamour of it, as a
very thoughtful Mason writing to us from New Jersey some twenty-six
years ago, said was the effect upon him when he witnessed the spectacle
in a Chicago lodge, we think a sufficient reason why it should not be
taught or tolerated, is a fact that outside of the largest centers it is im-
possible to get together a company who can present the third degree in
the dramatic form in a creditable way, while there is scarcely a lodge at
the cross-roads or in the small village that has not the material that can
be made capable o"f conferring the degree in the time-honored, conventional
way, creditably and impressively. Even in the larger lodges it is difficult
to get a team of workers, or cast, to essay the dramatic form without as
a whole running perilously near the condition of the unappreciated actor
who wondered why it was that when he played comedy his hearers cried,
and when he played tragedy they laughed.

The report of the committee is one of great interest, because therein
is quoted the history of what is known as the Preston-Webb work, or the
Webb work, as given by Philip C. Tucker, of Vermont, germane to the
report under review because the Preston-Webb work is the constitutional
standard in Kansas. Brother Tucker's history — too long to quote here —
the most important history of any ritual extant in this country, does
not get placed before the craft oftener than once in a generation, and to
those interested in that line of study it will be of interest to know that it
can be found in the Kansas proceedings for 1904. The committee say:

112 APPENDIX — PART I.

Not a word of our recommendations has the least tinge of an innova-
tion in the body of Masonry, against which all Masons must forever set
their countenances. 1 leaven forbid that such a thought should come to
any member of this committee. We believe that our recommendations are
in the nature of restorations of the ancient Preston-Webb work which
was adopted by this grand lodge at its annual communication at Leaven-
worth in 1867.

These are brave words, but we observe that they foreshadow the
retention, in the revision of an interpolation — that of the word widow in a
formulary before containing only the words sister, mother, daughter, and
wife — which they not only say was not in the work when adopted in
1S67, but they make a letter a part of their report, in which the writer, one
of the first custodians of the work, says that the interpolation was made
upon his insistent solicitation!

A substantial change in the fundamental engagements of a Mason —
and if it was not regarded as substantial none would clamor for its re-
tention after finding that it had been made in the face of the unvarying
usage of a hundred and fifty years — has something more than a tinge of
an innovation in the body of Masonry. The committee seem also to have
permitted themselves to report in favor of printing a cipher ritual (which
they think can be put up in convenient size, attractively bound, and sold at
a dollar a copy with a small margin of profit) is not to favor an innovation
in the body of Masonry. Why, the very terms they use when they speak of
"the tendency of modern Masonry to promulgate cipher rituals in an official
way," is a confession that it is a departure from the old ways.

This tendency, the committee say, is doubtless the result of the
flood of contraband rituals that have been a curse to Masonry, from which
no jurisdiction has suffered more than has Kansas. They think an
officially published cipher is desirable because it insures a fixed and
definite standard, the employment of written (or printed) characters as
a help to memory being an effective safeguard against substantial change,
but we have already seen that the possession of a cipher* of the work as
adopted by their grand lodge and protected by a constitutional guarantee
has not been effectve in securing a fixed standard, the many changes it
has undergone since its adoption being one of the reasons assigned for
putting it into print. They say it will greatly aid beginners in acquiring
accuracy and facility in the work, which would be as true, and more, if
they were to print it in extenso, but the inaccuracies of beginners are not
the root from which important changes in the work spring, but in the
ambition of those who are made its especial custodians to leave their im-
press on the ritual, either for the pride of so leaving it, or because that
impress embodies something which he, or they, think should be in the
work but know it isn't. The objections to such an official cipher they say
"may be summed up in the charge that it is contrary to Masonic tradition

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE. 113

and even to the specific obligations of Masonry," and this they meet with
the following :

The plan proposed contemplates a cipher employing only the initial
letter of each word, omitting even this in what may be called "test words."
Such a cipher cannot be legible or intelligible to any person under the
canopy of heaven who has not already been instructed. These disconnected
letters cannot serve to create an image in the mind of anyone. They can
but serve to revive and brighten an image that is already there. A
fair degree of proficiency in the work must be acquired before any con-
siderable use can be made of such a key. Masonic tradition is not against
this. It is true that upon a memorable occasion a careful search failed
to discover a key on or about the person of a distinguished Mason who
was stricken down in the performance of his duty. But the order to
make that search proceeded from the highest earthly Masonic authority.
That such search was so ordered shows by the clearest implication that
the possession of such a key would have been no violation of Masonic
tradition. Certainly there was no thought of reflecting upon the character
of that celebrated artist by intimating that he might have been faithless
to his trust.

If to assume that any argument could be drawn from the tradition
in question, that could add a feather's weight in the balance between right
and wrong were not the sheerest rot, it would still be unfortunate for
them as an illustration, because this peerless example of Masonic integ-
rity didn't have a key. "But the weightiest reason for the proposed ac-
tion," the committee say, "is in the interest of honesty between Masons,"
which being interpreted confessedly means, in brief, that a certain pro-
portion of Masons, notably those charged with the dissemination of the
work, have sufficiently persuaded themselves of the correctness of the view
now publicly advanced by the Kansas committee that keys and ciphers
are not specifically forbidden by a Mason's engagements, to venture to use
them on the sly with whatever of evasion, not to say prevarication, might
be necessary to keep a knowledge of their existence from the great body
of the craft.

Doubtless a public declaration by the supreme authority of his juris-
diction, that what had been furtively carried on a Mason's conscience as a
misdeed was after all not an offence, would render him less chary in talk-
ing about it than before ; frankness would not then lay him under sus-
picion, nor would it necessitate a simultaneous wrestling with his own
conscience and with the universally instinctive consensus of the craft,
as represented by his interlocutor. He might be more self-complacent,
but would he be more honest with his own conscience?

That this instinctive consensus as to the true intent and meaning of
the formulary which makes keys and ciphers unlawful is universal, needs
no better evidence than the secretiveness and evasiveness of those who
trespass against its prescriptions. Reason may be silenced or taken cap-
tive by special pleading, but conscience will not be argued with, and we

114 APPENDIX — PART T.

hazard nothing in saying that no one who advocated the printing of a
cipher ritual in the Grand Lodge of Kansas, hnt who was startled and
had his moral sense shocked, when for the first time in his Masonic life
he saw a brother make so much as a fragmentary note of any portion of
the esotery of the fraternity.

The grand lodge chartered five new lodges and left the question of
renewing the dispensation of the sixth with the grand master ; granted the
request of the committee on correspondence for further time to report on
the applications of the Grand Lodge of Porto Rico and the Grand Orient
of the Blue Rite of Argentina, the committee not being satisfied as to
their Masonic character, and under the lead of the same committee re-
fused recognition to the Grand Lodge of Cosmos, of the State of Chi-
huahua, Mexico ; listened to an interesting and instructive address by
the grand orator, the Rev. James P. de B. Kaye, in which he sanely and
correctly treated Masonry as a growth ; and voted to meet next year at
Wichita.

Thomas G. Fitch, of Wichita, was elected grand master; Albert
K. Wilson, Topeka, re-elected grand secretary.

The report on correspondence (350 pp.) is again by Past Grand Mas-
ter William M. Shaver, which is at once a guarantee of its thoroughness,
ability and fraternal courtesy. At the outset he says:

Our previous efforts have been criticised as ''too lengthy." The
only answer that can be made to such a criticism is that conscientiously
"to review and report upon" the proceedings of fifty American grand
lodges, as well as a number of representative foreign jurisdictions, in
this day of action, requires space. However, as we believe the criticism is
a just one, we shall endeavor to keep this report "down." The only way
in which this can successfully be accomplished, as we view it, is to
eliminate excerpts as much as possible.

To eliminate excerpts to the minimum is often to deprive one's readers
of what is justly their due, and often in discussions it is only fair to let
one state his opinions in his own way, by which alone the spirit of his
argument can be reflected. Brother Shaver's efforts at brevity failed in
the aggregate, as he had to review fifteen volumes more than last year,
but there is not a page that his grand lodge can afford to spare. He
gives eight and one-half pages to Illinois for 1903, reviewing Grand Mas-
ter Moulton's address at considerable length, presenting the more salient
features of the session, and laying Brother McFatrich's oration under
contribution for some of its striking paragraphs.

He does us the honor to say that our report on correspondence is a
Masonic text-book of great educational value, which we appreciate highly
as wages of the sort that prevents one from going away utterly dissatisfied
with his own work, as all must be in greater or less measure.

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE. 115

Because our grand lodge declines to trespass on the domain which the
landmarks give to the ballot, and relieve the individual brother of the re-
sponsibility of deciding by that agency whether a given petitioner comes
within the category of "immoral'' and '"scandalous" men whom the land-
marks exclude — a decision which from the all-sufficing potency of a single
blackball must always represent the high-water mark of morality in a lodge
— Brother Shaver says :

According to Brother Robbins, Illinois appears to believe in moral
saloon-keeping and law-abiding saloon-keepers — a business and a class we
have never known and about which we are skeptical.

He quotes from our report the following comment on the fact that
the grand master (Dewey) and the committee on correspondence (whose
views as voiced by Brother Shaver are also reproduced) favored an official
cipher :

The committee on jurisprudence and the grand lodge, however, took
the orthodox view of the subject, the former reporting and the latter
adopting a standing regulation declaring that the "sale, gift, printing or
use of the so-called cipher rituals, or secret work, shall be deemed a viola-
tion of the constitution, and an offense against the body of Masonry."

Commenting on this, he says :

We fear the distinguished reviewer failed to grasp the situation. The
edict formulated by the committee is directed against the very evil the
grand master condemned — the "miserable ciphers." The views of this
committee are sufficiently "orthodox" upon this question, except that we
do not believe such a regulation will or can be enforced. The grand lodge
took sufficient notice of the grand master's suggestion, however, to author-
ize a special committee to investigate and report at next annual upon the
"advisability of publishing" such an aid. We do not care to presage a
guess as to the action the grand lodge will take in this matter, but should
it adopt an official initial "aid" it would be no departure from its present
"orthodox" position.

In the light of what occurred at the session of his grand lodge under
review, it seems manifest that we did fail to "grasp the situation." If,
haply, the jurisprudence committee had foreseen our want of comprehen-
sive vision, and had let us into the difference between the "miserable" and
the "official" cipher — if their resolution was drafted with a reservation of
that sort — we might have suspected, if we did not wholly comprehend the
situation. But we are still obliged to make a further confession : We are
still unable to do more towards grasping the whole situation than to per-
ceive that there is more of both wit and wisdom in the trite saying "ortho-
doxy is my doxy; heorodxy is your doxy" than we had wot of.

Brother Shaver excels in index-making as he does in other things.
The subject index to his report, which adds so much both to its immediate
and permanent value, is a marvel of condensation.

116 APPENDIX — PART I.

KENTUCKY, 1903.

103D Annual. Louisville. October 20.

A portrait of the retiring grand master (John W. Landrum) forms
the frontispiece of the Kentucky volume. Twenty-two past grand mas-
ters were present, led by Thomas Todd, who was elected to the grand
east that day fifty years before. Grand Master Landrum announced the
death of Past Grand Master James W. Staton, who was stricken with
paralysis at Paris, Ky., while seated at a banquet which followed the
laying of the corner-stone of the new Bourbon county court house with
Masonic ceremonies. He died at his home in Brooksville. June 27, sev-
enteen days after he was stricken. Brother Staton was as prominent as
a citizen as he was in Masonry. We recall him at the Masonic Congress
of 1893, a self-poised, self-contained man, impressing us as he did his
eulogist of the special committee on his death — "Quiet, courteous, gentle,
calm, yet always firm ; in every place he was himself — man made in God's
own image, an exemplar of God's truth." We have been drawn to him
through years of mutual reviewing, both before and since his service in
the grand east, to which he was elected in 1893, and this year Kentucky's
vacant seat at the Round Table will awaken loving recollections in the
memory of every member of the guild.

The grand master in referring to the completion of their new temple,
known as "The Masonic," says its building was not a matter of choice,
but that its conception and construction was a result of circumstances :

After having furnished the measures, means and moral support in the
erection and maintenance of homes for the infirm, the destitute and the
helpless ; and schools for the young and the ignorant, it found that its
liberality had deprived itself of a home, or a place in which to hold its
annual gatherings. Without complaint or regret that it had thus be-
stowed its generosity, but with a renewed activity and firmness of purpose,
it purchased a lot and with only a few thousands — or practically without a
dollar, boldly proceeded to the erection of this magnificent edifice that is
equaled in splendor by very few temples on this continent, and reflects
additional credit upon the craft in Kentucky and elsewhere.

The money, except $27,000.00, which the grand lodge had as a re-
serve and which was used in payment of lot, was furnished by the home;
$90,000.00 of the money thus furnished belongs to the grand lodge but is
held in trust by the home, and the grand lodge generously pays interest
on that amount of its own funds to benefit widows and orphans of Masons,
besides paying over $22,000.00 a year toward their support. I may be
pardoned if I contemplate these acts of generous liberality and charity,
with a feeling of admiration, love and pride for Kentucky Masonry, and
a veneration for this century-old grand lodge.

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The building was dedicated on the afternoon of the first day of the
session, by Grand Master Landrum, with eloquent addresses by Past
Grand Master McChord, chairman of the building committee, and Past
Grand Master Witt, and music and entertainment by the children of the
widows' and orphans' home.

In the course of his speech Past Grand Master Witt, referring to
the trials and achievements of Kentucky Masonry, said :

In the first ten years immediately succeeding the erection of our
Widows and Orphans' home, 17,923 Masons in Kentucky were suspended
and dimitted, and our net loss in numbers from 1876 to 1885 was 6,414.

But the passing years have cured all this, and to-day we are stronger
in numbers, in wealth, in influence for good or evil, than we have ever
been before, and behind this enterprise stand the loyal, loving, true and
tried hearts of more than twenty-two thousand faithful Kentucky Masons.
Some of us have questioned the advisability of this enterprise, and have
not hesitated to give expression to the doubt. But that time is past, the
house is builded. It is ours; it belongs to all of us, the joy of it, the
pride of it, as well as the responsibility of it.

He does not speak of the number of lodges wiped out as a result of
the instinctive rebellion incident to the change from the Masonic system
of relief based on voluntary contributions to a system based on enforced
taxation, but it was large ; but without these figures, the figures given
show that Grand Master Pettit, speaking in 1879, was quite within bounds
when he said the change had "shaken the craft in Kentucky to its foun-
dations."

We do not assume that all this loss is to be credited to an intelligent
protest against a revolutionary change, but discounting the dimissions
and suspensions due either to poverty or to natural stinginess, the loss
represents a protest of great magnitude ; and writing now at a period so
remote from the event as not to risk resting under suspicion of en-
couraging a still active discontent, we can say, as we have always thought,
that Kentucky Masonry has no brighter page than that which shows
many craftsmen ready to suffer deprivation of rights as dear to them as
to Masons anywhere, rather than be unprotesting parties to the overthrow
of a principle rooted in the most fundamental laws of the institution.

The following decisions are among those reported :

1. Should white and blackballs, or paper ballots, be used in deter-
mining degree of punishment? Held: Paper ballots or white and black-
balls may be used, as the result of the vote is the thing desired. It is
only a technical matter as to which form is used.

4. A lodge can not reconsider its action after admitting a brother
to membership. If it appears that a mistake had been made in admitting
him, charges must be preferred and trial had before his standing can be
affected.

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6. A petition for initiation matured at a regular meeting in November.
The committee asked for further time to report, which was granted. A
brother arose and objected, in open lodge, to the admission of this candi-
date, and requested that his objection be recorded. At the stated meetings
in December and January following, the committee still failed to report,
but at the stated meeting in February, in the absence of the objector, the
committee made a favorable report, the ballot was ordered and the candi-
date declared elected. The master would not confer the degree, and re-
ferred the matter in detail to the grand master. Held, The ballot taken
in February was valid, but the objection made in November was prospec-
tive in its nature and holds good for twelve months from the February
meeting, as, under the law, it has the effect of a blackball. The master
was directed to -have the minutes of the lodge amended so as to conform to
this decision, and that the candidate be declared rejected.

It was also decided that a ballot taken with a ballot box so defective as
not certainly to reflect the intention of the voter, is not such a ballot as is
contemplated by Masonic law ; and also that any agreement between
lodges that disregards the jurisdictional boundaries of their territories as
prescribed by the constitution is invalid. The first of these was approved
by the committee on jurisprudence, but they say of the case which evoked it
(in which all the members present were agreed as to the disabling character
of the defect), that the whole matter was clearly within the power of the
lodge itself, which we are not prepared to gainsay. Not so, however, with
the disapproval of the decision that it is unlawful to abide by written
agreements as to jurisdictions, in which the committee carried the grand
lodge with them. They say :

We find that the grand lodge has at different times taken different
positions on this question. The last utterance on the question was one
year ago when the grand lodge, on the report of the committee on juris-
prudence, decided that subordinate lodges were permitted to enter into
such agreements. The committee on jurisprudence say in their report on
page 48, 1902 : "We know of no reason why two lodges can not them-
selves settle the line of jurisdiction between them," * * * "and that
any agreement satisfactory to both parties and not hurtful to any one else
is commendable and should not be disturbed." The grand lodge adopted
the report of the committee, thus making it law, and we. see no reason for
that law to be now changed. We agree with the conclusions of that com-
mittee and the action of the grand lodge at that time, and therefore rec-
ommend that this decision of the grand master be not approved.

The committee had a clear precedent in their favor, plausible in its
aspect, but we still think that if the constitution prescribes the boundaries
of lodges, as the grand master says, then as a statement of law his
decision was impregnable.

The committee were also sustained in disapproving Number 1, on the
ground that with the stated exception that after suspension has been or-
dered (by the use of white and black balls), slips of paper may be used in
an attempt by a single ballot to get together on the duration of it, each
brother writing on his slip the length of time the brother should be sus-

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pended, the law states that all these questions must be settled by the use of
the balls. They might have added, with some force, we think, that secrecy
being the manifest intent and design of the law, that the difference between
a black or white ball which cannot reveal its depositer, and a slip bearing
handwriting familiar to one or more of the brethren, is not a merely
"technical" one. All the other decisions were approved. No. 6 we
think improperly. We have elsewhere in this report given our reasons
for holding that the possibility of barring the admission of a candidate by
the objection of a single individual should not be entertained until after the
immemorial method of determining his admissibility — the ballot — has been
exhausted.

Among the dispensations wisely denied by the grand master, we find
the following :

A request came under seal from Newport Lodge, after unanimously
accepting an invitation from Newport Commandery to act as escort to
latter on Easter Sunday. Held : It is unwise to grant dispensation to
participate in any service in which all the members could not join. The
Knights Templar order being founded on a certain principle, admits none
who can not declare their belief in the Christian religion. The great body
of Masonry as an organization respects religion in all its various forms
and denominations, but should not in its aggregate capacity recognize any
particular religious sect or creed.

The special committee on the Widows and Orphans' Home find noth-
ing connected with its management which suggests the need of legislation
or which seems to call for remedy. The time and energies of the grand
lodge were largely devoted to determining how to economize so as to
enable it to take care of the large debt entailed by building The Masonic.
The grand master suggested the saving of the mileage and per diem of two
members of the committee on correspondence by reducing the number of
the committee to one, he to be styled the "reporter," or, better still, as he
thought, by dispensing with the committee altogether. The finance com-
mittee seconded the first alternative, proposing also that the committee on
necrology be reduced to one member ; that the committee on credentials
be dispensed with and its duties devolve on the grand secretary, and that
the grand lodge hold only biennial sessions for the next decade. The
amendments proposed to cover these recommendations will come up for
action next year.

Thirteen new lodges were chartered.

Owen D. Thomas, of Lebanon, was elected grand master; Henry B.
Grant, Louisville (Masonic Temple), re-elected grand secretary.

And this seems an appropriate place to copy the tribute paid to the
grand secretary by Grand Master Landrum in his address :

And now comes Grant ! The good, Christian man ; the peerless secre-
tary, whose knowledge and skill is so necessary and so ready for the

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use of a grand master; whose merit is beyond computation, and to
whom ray greatest tribute would be but a weak offering. My warmest
thanks go to him for his many acts of favor. The man, some day, will
die; but Grant will live on and on to lighten the burdens of future grand
masters and adorn with beauteous splendor the history of Kentucky Ma-
sonry.

There is no report on correspondence, owing to the death of the
lamented Staton.

The volume contains an installment of 113 pages of the "Centennial
History," bringing it down to the midddle of the record of the annual
communication of 1875. It is illustrated with the portraits of many grand
masters, and is of great interest, as it covers the period when Kentucky
was the theater of war.

LOUISIANA, 1904.

92D Annual. New Orleans. February i.

Among the six who had worn the purple and now helped to raise the
number of diplomats present to thirty-seven, was Past Grand Master
Charles F. Buck, the representative of Illinois.

The grand master (Robert R. Reid) thus enforces the lesson that Ma-
sons least of all should be the last to yield to the passions and prejudices
out of which come lynchings and social ostracism for those who differ
from them in opinion, in words which lose nothing of their strength be-
cause of their euphemistic choice.

The prominence of Freemasonry, as a factor in the development of
our civilization, is due not alone to the recognition of a Supreme Creator
and to the inculcation of a belief in that Creator as a dominant feature of
her esoteric as well as exoteric teachings, but because she has added, as
a co-ordinate, that principle of action which is the heritage of her
glorious past; the tocsin of her splendid present and the ultima thule Of her
grander future — Toleration. That toleration, that freedom of thought, of
speech and of action which means the liberation of man from the thralldom
of his own passions and prejudices to the liberty which shall make of him
the true citizen, the actual man, the real Mason.

I am tempted to these expressions by reason of incidents, which, if
permitted to recur, must prove subversive of this last great principle which
is the cape-stone of that arch of brotherly love, relief and truth which rests
upon the pillars of "Strength and Establishment"- — the unity of God and
man.

It is not the spirit of toleration which prompts the physical correc-
tion of one who may have innocently erred because reared and educated

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where peculiar social distinctions are not recognized, possibly unknown.
Such an one is to be pitied and set aright, not scourged, and told to go
forth from his fellow-men.

Neither is it the spirit of toleration, or brotherly love, that raises the
hue and cry against a brother who may have done a wrong, but whose guilt
is not established and who, more than ever, needs that hand to back which
shall raise and support a weak and erring brother.

Remembering the limitations of our physical nature and that education
is but a synonym for environment, it is. imperatively, our duty to admit
and make allowance for the existence of conditions and customs, which,
although repugnant from our own point of view, may be the credo of those
just as true, just as honest, just as sincere in their convictions as our-
selves.

No deaths had occurred in the official family of the grand lodge during
the year, but the memorial pages bear the names of fourteen past masters
who had gone over to the majority. The grand master bespeaks the
patience and consideration of the brethren for the committee on work
whose labors in the preparation of a standard system are not yet complete,
although the report of that committee and that of the grand lecturer
show that it had reached a working stage and had been disseminated to a
degree to warrant the belief that a foundation for uniformity had been
substantially laid.

The report of the latter shows that the doubt which we expressed
whether the lodges using the Scottish Rite work were intended to be in-
cluded in the requirement that "all lodges and the officers thereof * * *
and shall conform thereto," was probably well grounded, as he states that
on the organization of a school of instruction — of a month's duration —
under the direction of the committee on work, ''the officers of all the 'York
Rite' lodges were ordered to attend, a general invitation being extended to
all the brethren, as well as to the officers and brethren of the lodges of
the 'Scottish Rite.' " He further says :

It was the intention, and so announced by the committee on work,
that an official visit would be paid each lodge of the "York Rite" and the
work exemplified by conferring the several degrees upon actual candidates,
as well as to pay a fraternal visit to the brethren of each lodge of the
"Scottish Rite."

This design was frustrated by the sudden, serious illness of the grand
lecturer.

Reporting the dispensations issued by the grand master, Grand Sec-
retary Lambert records one to a lodge to meet in a one-story building until
the completion of a new lodge-room (replacing one lost by fire) with the
condition that no degrees be conferred during such occupancy. There
is nothing to indicate whether this condition reflected a general rule, or
only a hazard peculiar to this particular case. The report of Louisiana
Relief Lodge No. i, of New Orleans, a model organization whose unosten-

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tatious work of relief has been carried on for a third of a century, or
more, shows an aggregate of $1,298.95 disbursed, $20.50 of which was to
applicants from Illinois.

In view of the imminent extinguishment of the "Temple debt" the
grand lodge was in a mood to consider a plan for Masonic relief, and a
committee was appointed to investigate, report and recommend, with the
necessary legislation, at the next annual communication, a plan for the
best method of doing the work, either for the establishment of a "Home"
or for the creation and maintenance of a "Permanent Relief Fund,"
looking to relief in individual cases through a committee of the grand lodge.

Resolutions establishing a mileage and per diem system, providing for
the payment of his actual traveling expenses and three dollars per day
to one representative of each lodge were adversely reported upon by the
committee on audit and accounts, but on a motion to adopt the report of
the committee the resolutions were substituted there for after having been
amended by striking out the provision for per diem, and on a roll call of
lodges were adopted by the decisive vote of 184 to 116, to become effective
at the annual communication of 1905.

Resolutions limiting the tenure of the office of grand master to one
year were, after an extended discussion defeated, wisely, we think, by a
vote of 108 yeas to 199 nays.

The grand lodge, on motion of Past Grand Master Buck, resolved to
give the "private grand honors" to a past grand master but once during an
annual communication ; chartered eight new lodges ; received with thanks
from the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons a contribution of
$1,500.00 to the widows and orphans' relief fund; and concurred
in the opinion of the committee on jurisprudence that in the case of a
lodge whose master and wardens had moved out of the jurisdiction, the
action of the grand master in deputizing a brother to open the lodge, hold
an election and install the officers thus elected "was clearly within his
power and in accordance with law and usage," the committee holding that
when the lodge was abandoned by its master and both wardens "the situa-
tion was precisely what is would have been if the lodge had failed to elect
and install officers."

L. P. Delahoussaye was elected grand master; Richard Lambert
re-elected grand secretary, both of New Orleans.

The report on correspondence (124 pp.) is as usual by Grand Chaplain
Herman C. Duncan, and is up to the high-water mark of his always
admirable work.

His four and one-half page notice of Illinois is of our proceedings of
1903. Of the trial and suspension of a brother for promoting the confer-

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ring the degrees who had been rejected by another lodge, as reported by
Grand Master Moulton, he says :

Such discipline as this is greatly needed elsewhere than in Illinois.
The position of recommender and of investigator are responsible positions,
and those who assume them should be made to understand that if they fail
in their duties they wrong Masonry and subject themselves to exclusion
from its portals.

His appreciation of Brother McFatrich's oration is shown by his
quoting more than a page of his mellifluous and pregnant sentences.
Among other quotations from our notice of Louisiana for 1903, is the
following :

"Brother Duncan's report embraces a paper on 'Lodges of the Scotch
and Modern Rite,' which is very interesting. Had we not already written
quite fully on this topic we should give it to our readers with comments.
Most defenders of the alleged right of the Scottish Rite system to plant
symbolic lodges anywhere, never undertake to tell how that system became
possessed of it. They say that the exercise of the right proves that it
possesses it and that is enough (Justin Pinney's Grand Lodge in Ohio,
exercises it, for that matter). But Brother Duncan, less wary, says
it came into the possession of the Scottish Rite through the Rite of
Perfection, of which latter the Scottish Rite was an extension. Now, will
he tell us how the Rite of Perfection became possessed of it?

We here quote his reply entire :

Our good and well-informed brother probably does not mean his
question seriously, for he certainly "knows what the answer must be.
Or else he seeks an avowal from us as to the "York Rite" as the true
author and foundation of everything Masonic. If this be the purpose,
we shall be perfectly frank about it, for certainly there can be no necessity
of being "wary."

Drummond, in his history of the Scottish Rite, says in his introduc-
tory sentence of his "Historic Summary :" After the organization of
the Grand Lodge of England in 1717, Masonry soon acquired a high
degree of popularity. Degrees, almost numberless, were invented and
termed Masonic ; there was apparently no general governing authority
for very many of them, but they were what are now known as "Side-
degrees." In 1754 twenty-five of them (including the three symbolic
degrees) were arranged in a series called the "Rite of Perfection." From
this he traces the rise and organization of the so-called Scottish Rite.

We are entirely agreed that Pinney did not make a grand lodge of
Masons by calling his body by such title, and that he has never really
made a Mason by so declaring. We are entirely agreed that historic and
tactual succession are absolutely necessary to legitimacy.

We are also free to say that we cannot prove, by documentary evi-
dence, that when the emissaries of the Grand Lodge of England went
over to the continent and made Masons there, that they gave those
Masons authority to work the symbolic degrees of Masonry. Yet we
have never heard it denied that the institution of a lodge meant that
it had power to work. We assume that. It may be a weak point in
the argument, but in our opinion it is not. and this, for the reason that

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we find constant acts of recognition extended by the Grand Lodge of
England to French, German and other like lodges.

It is to be remembered we are not now concerned with the right of
those old Trench and German lodges to work degrees other than those
-it' symbolic Masonry, but solely with their right to work the degrees,
which we call Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason. We
hold that the Grand Lodge of England had that right, and that she
gave it to exercise to the lodges she founded in France, Germany and
elsewhere. We hold that those lodges cumulated other rites and cere-
monies which came to be organized and called degrees, and that such
cumulation did not militate against the continuance of this right to confer
the three degrees of symbolic Masonry. If Brother Perkins' lodge
should confer the Master's Reliance and call it a degree, it would not
thereby be depriving itself of any right to make Master Masons.

For this reason, we hold that in those old days the lodges of the
Rite of Perfection were endowed with the right to confer the symbolic
degrees and that this right passed to the Scottish Rite because that Rite
is only a reorganization and an extension of the Rite of Perfection —
just as the Grand Lodge of England was and is a reorganization and an
extension of what Masonry previously was.

The Scotch Rite having inherently the right to confer the degrees
of symbolic Masonry can extend that right just as far as Masonic law
permits, to-wit, each governing body of the Rite within his own country
or state, and beyond it in unoccupied territory.

When, then, the Scotch Rite came, we will say, to Central America,
they found no Masonry there. To plant it. to confer the fourth degree
or the thirty-second, it was absolutely necessary to have the preceding
degrees conferred. We say that authorities of the Rite had the right,
derived by legitimate succession from the Grand Lodge of England to
confer those degrees. Again, we say, that when the authorities of the Scotch
Rite came to South Carolina they found legitimate Masonry there, and
that, therefore, they had no right to confer the degrees of symbolic
Masonry in that state, but must, perforce, limit themselves to those degrees
that they numbered 4 to 33. be they real and historic, or imaginary and
modern — it matters not at this time, or to this contention. We gladly
join with any brother in the contention that in these United States the
Scotch Rite has made no concession in declaring that none of their lodges
not entirely subordinate to a grand lodge will be permitted to confer the
degrees of symbolic Masonry — but that in so doing an acknowledgment
was made that such governing body could not confer such authority with-
out violence to the fundamental principles of Masonic government.

To complete our statement of position, we hold that, when there are
three or more symbolic lodges in a state, or country, planted there by
a supreme council, it is their duty so soon as they feel able to do so to
renounce the authority of the supreme council and to organize a sov-
ereign and independent grand lodge, as the Masons of Costa Rica have
recently done.

We may add that the Grand Lodge of England unquestionbly knows
whether she gave to the original lodges of the Rke of Perfection the
authority to confer the degrees of symbolic Masonry, and her unanimous
recognition of the Grand Lodge of Costa Rica demonstrates her belief

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that the gift was so given and that it has been properly transmitted to the
lodges of Costa Rica.

It may be well to add that these considerations have nothing to do
with the question as to the present Masonic character of certain of the
continental powers called Masonic, for we believe that however legitimate
the Grand Orient of France, for example, may have been once, it is so no
longer. But even it occupies a quasi-Masonic position in that to its
legitimizing an internal reformation work out of itself is necessary,
and no new grant of authority, as the Pinney Grand Lodge would have to
receive, even if there were no Grand Lodge of Ohio.

We assure our good brother that we did mean the question seriously,
and we freely confess that we were not well enough informed to know
what the answer must be. We have tried in vain for the thirty years or
more that we have been hammering away at this subject to get an answer
to our question as definite as that which Brother Duncan with his trans-
parent fairness tries to give. We have been told again and again that
there was a "Lodge of Perfection" in this country within fifty years of
the time when the first grand lodge was formed, but neither that nor the
subsequent formation of others threw any light on the question of the
right of any man or body of men apart from the craft lodge and grand
lodge of the same ilk to touch the domain of Ancient Craft or Symbolic
Masonry, which they carefully avoided. So, too, the fact was cited, in
reply to our contention, that instances had occurred in the early days in
this country where the order of Knights Templar had been conferred in
lodges of Freemasons. If this had had any point it would have vanished
when the lodge or grand lodge sloughed off all "side degrees" (a thing long
since accomplished), because thus far no one has been found to claim that
a commandery of Knights Templars has the power to create lodges and
endow them with the right to confer the degrees of Entered Apprentice,
Fellow Craft and Master Mason. Others contented themselves with simply
claiming, and reiterating the claim, that in countries where government
by the supreme council was "the form of Masonic government there
prevailing," the supreme council could create lodges capable of making
Masons as lawful as those of New York or Illinois. All agreed that the
alleged degrees constituting the "Rite of Perfection" entered largely into
the make-up of the Scottish Rite when it was organized sixty years later,
but none of them intimated that the Grand Lodge of England had been
the source of the power of the rite, as a rite, either to administer or control
symbolic Masonry. The whole claim rested upon the theory that the
Grand Lodge of England had no exclusive right to dictate the form of gov-
ernment or the ritualistic features which Masonry should assume because
Masonry had developed in several independent centers at about the same
time, either of which had an equal right to call its system Freemasonry.
They did not always avowedly base their claim on this theory, but that they
did impliedly is shown by their general silence as to the investigations

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which had proved that Masonry developed, and up to a period subsequent
to the formation of the first grand lodge existed, only in the British Isles.
They saw that if this were a proven fact, that if all the Masonry existing
in 1721 was under the unrepealable restraints of the Charges of a
Freemason and its progagation hedged in by those charges and the fifteen
points of the Master's obligation then no alleged Masonry anywhere could
be identified as such that did not answer to the requirements of those
two bodies of law, both equally fundamental. With one exception they
did not discuss this, but he, one of the ablest advocates of the recognition
of bodies oi Scottish Rite parentage by grand lodges of Free and Accepted
Masons, said that if it were proven that if Masonry existed nowhere but in
Great Britain at that period, then all our contentions must be admitted.

The scholarship of the Masonic world now agrees that it is proven;
and that it was at that time well known on the continent, receives the
strongest confirmation from the fact all the early pretending rites, differ-
ing from that which had been propagated from England, claimed that its
degrees were of Scottish origin, thus recognizing the necessity of locating
its birth-place in Britain.

Brother Duncan is the first so far as we are aware, to attempt to prove
what all others have manifestly though it easier to assume, that the alleged
right of the Scottish Rite system to plant symbolic lodges in open territory
came into its possession through the Rite of Perfection.

We do not ask Brother Duncan to prove what goes without saying
that when the Grand Lodge of England established lodges on the con-
tinent it was that they might work the degrees of symbolic Masonry. This
was precisely what they were authorized to do ; and they were not author-
ized to create or work anything else. The Grand Lodge of England was
powerless under the law of its own being to authorize the conferring of
other degrees than these, nor did they do so until after they had cut
loose from English authority. It was not these lodges that cumulated
other degrees, but the "Scots Lodges," unauthorized bodies claiming Scot-
tish authority to differentiate them from the English, and claiming Scottish
parentage for their degrees (manufactured in France) and because St.
Andrew was the patron saint of Scotland, calling them St. Andrew's de-
grees. It was the members of these unauthorized lodges who made their
appearance in the regular lodges, "the Scottish master asserting in every
way a superiority over the Master Mason, and claiming even as a visitor
to rank before the master of the lodge. At any time or place he could per-
sonally confer the degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft or Mas-
ter Mason." (Greiner.) Later, when Scottish, or "Scots Lodges," as
Brother Gould prefers to call them, were engrafted on the ordinary lodges
the former became supreme in all matters, and even assumed grand lodge
powers, granting warrants of constitution. Could such lodges claim to

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be seized of the powers given by the Grand Lodge of England to the
lodges they had captured, when by that capture all the conditions upon
which such powers were granted had been obliterated?

If, as Brother Duncan says, the Scottish Rite has the inherent right
to confer the degrees of Symbolic Masonry, then it was not endozved with
the right by the Grand Lodge of England through the intermediary Rite
of Perfection. If we correctly read the illustration of Brother Perkins"
lodge it is supposed to be as lawfully possessed of the right to make Mas-
ter Masons as it is possible for any lodge to be. Brother Duncan says
that if it should confer the "Master's Reliance" and call it a degree, it
would not thereby be depriving itself of any right to make Master Masons.
But suppose it should confer the Master's Reliance upon a limited number
of members, then abdicate its representative form of government and turn
its control over in perpetuity to the little bunch of Master's Reliances,
recognizing the authority of the bunch to regulate all admissions to its
own ranks and to prescribe the conditions upon which all Master Masons
should be made thereafter? Would the grand lodge of which Brother
Perkins' lodge was a constituent, but whose authority it had repudiated
haAre thereby endowed the little bunch of Master's Reliances with the right
to confer the degrees of symbolic Masonry?

There can be no doubt that the Grand Lodge of Ohio by giving
the lodges uniting to form the Pinney grand lodge a constituted exis-
tence thereby endowed them with the right to confer the degrees of Sym-
bolic Masonry. If this right is indestructible, as seems to be assumed by
Brother Duncan, so that neither repudiation of grand lodge authority nor
overt rebellion against the law of Masonry (whose constraints lie with
equal weight upon all Masons whether as individuals or in their organized
capacity) can divest a lodge when once it possess it, why would the
Pinney body need a new grant of authority to legitimate it in case the law-
ful Grand Lodge of Ohio should disappear? If the Pinney body lost the
right to confer the degrees of Symbolic Masonry anywhere by simple
rebellion against the authority of the grand lodge, how does it happen
that the continental lodges in Europe retained it nothwithstanding their
rebellion not only against the authority of the grand lodge which created
them but against the law of Masonry itself, carrying their disregard of the
latter to the extent of utterly displacing the Masonry which it defines,
circumscribes and identifies by a system so radically different that it is
impossible thus to identify it?

Brother Duncan holds the Grand Orient of France to be no longer a
legitimate body. Why? Doubtless because by the removal of its theistic
basis the system which it administers is no longer identifiable as Ma-
sonry. But the departure of the grand orient was not wider or more
radical than that which bred a crop of supreme councils claiming authority

1-8 APPENDIX — PART I.

over the degrees of Smybolic Masonry. The theistic basis is not more
fundamental, more inwrought and essential to the indentification of Ma-
s' »nry than is its basis of equal rights and eligibilities, the equal voice of
all in its representative government, the ample, as it is the only warrant
for what has ever been the proudest boast of the fraternity — ''We meet
upon the level.''

Beyond all possibility of question this democratic principle of equality
of rights, eligibilities and shaping voice is among "those fundamental prin-
ciples which." in the language of the Masonic Congress of 1903, at Chicago,
defining the ancient landmarks "characterize Masonry as defined by the
Charges of a Freemason, and without which it cannot be identified as
Masonry."

To attempt to remove this and substitute therefor the oligarchical hier-
archical government of the Scottish Rite can have but one effect, to-wit, to
produce a system that cannot be identified as Masonry, and hence, by
whatever name called can exercise no power over the symbolic degrees
whether in open territory or not. The principle laid down by Brother
Drummond, his matchless statement of which we regard as his most price-
less legacy to the Craft, fits the conditions we are discussing as closely and
conclusively as it did in the case of the attempt of the Grand Orient of
France to exploit a Masonry without a theistic basis, which called for its
application : "No man or body of men can make innovations in the
body of Masonry. To attempt this does not change Masonry, but puts
those who make the attempt outside of the pale of the institution."

The italics are ours, but they place the emphasis where Brother Drum-
mond's concluding sentence puts it, and where, as it seems to us, complete
and unfaltering loyalty to Free and Accepted Masonry, the Masonry of
the Charges of a Freemason, demands that it should be put, the obligation
standing for both duty and fact.

MAINE, 1904.

85TH Annual. Portland. May 3.

The steel engraved frontispiece of this volume, is a portrait of the
retiring grand master, William J. Burnham, a genuine Yankee face.

Eleven past grand masters graced the grand east with their presence
and forty-five jurisdictions were represented in the diplomatic corps, Illi-
nois not among them. Death had again laid a heavy hand on the grand
lodge. Grand Master Burnham announced the death of Winfield Scott

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Choate and Joseph Alvah Locke, past grand masters, aged fifty-three
and sixty, respectively, and of Past Junior Grand Warden Algernon Mar-
tin Roak, aged fifty-seven. Brother Choate's executive service was in the
years 1899 and 1900; Brother Locke's in 1897 and 1898. Brother Roak
was elected to the south in 1889.

Of these Brother Locke had been quite active in public life. He stud-
ied law in the office of the late Josiah H. Drummond, served two terms
in the Maine house of representatives, was for two terms president of the
state senate, and for four years was a member of the governor's council.
Eloquent tribute was paid to his memory by Past Grand Master Horace
H. Burbank; a like service was rendered to the character and person-
ality of Brother Choate by Past Grand Master Alfred S. Kimball.

We reproduce four of the five decisions reported :

2. Can lodge funds be used to pay for banquets, entertainments, etc.,
where it can be done without distress to the lodge ?

Among the several ways which our regulations forbid the use of lodge
funds, are pleasure excursions, and expense of annual receptions ; a rea-
sonable expense only for refreshments at lodge meetings would be proper.

3. Can a lodge remit the dues of a deceased member, also of a de-
ceased suspended n. p. d ?

No. The account of a deceased member should be closed with a
statement of his death. A deceased member suspended n. p. d. cannot be
restored to membership.

4. Can a collective ballot be allowed where there are several applica-
tions to be voted upon?

No. A ballot should be had on each application separately.

5. A ballot upon an application was declared "clear and the candi-
date accepted;" the records were so made up. After the meeting had
closed the S. D. stated that he noticed one blackball in the box as he
emptied it for another ballot ; a member present stated that he had cast
such a ballot, but should make no objection to it remaining as it was. What
should be done ?

The record as made must stand and the degrees be conferred, unless
an objection is made, in which case the W. M. should declare the candidate
rejected. While it was careless on the part of the W. M. and wardens in
not detecting the ballot, and stupid on the part of the S. D. in not calling
the attention of the W. M. to it, as the party who so voted did not object,
it must stand as declared.

The first two of these are given for information only. We have else-
where in this report made a guess as to the genesis of the occasionally out-
cropping "collective ballot," the subject of No. 4. No. 5 is strong common
sense.

The grand master personally investigated a case wherein the master
of a lodge (Hiram lodge) informed him that through error his lodge had
received the application and conferred the degrees upon a candidate who

130 APPENDIX — PART I.

had within five years been rejected by a lodge in Massachusetts. He took
care to have present the candidate in question, the members who recom-
mended him and the committee of inqury, and examined them all in open
lodge. He was impressed by the frank sincerity of all who gave testi-
mony. He continues :

The candidate admitted having applied to a lodge in Massachusetts
some four years or more ago, where he was rejected, and that he signed
the application to Hiram Lodge under protest without erasing the word
"never," by the advice of the friend who furnished the application paper
and endorsed it.

The endorser admitted the truth of the statements made by the candi-
date, that he was not well informed as to the law, but actuated by a belief
that there would be no difficulty in obtaining a waiver of jurisdiction from
the Massachusetts lodge, and fully intending to do so, he gave the advice
as stated; but being a business man, and his mind fully occupied, he was
sorry to confess that he forgot. The second endorser had no knowledge
of the circumstances, but was personally acquainted with the applicant,
and added his name that the application might have the requisite endorse-
ment. The committee of inquiry evidently performed all that they sup-
posed to be their duty, going even so far as to write letters to the former
residence of the applicant, although he had been more than one year a
resident of the town.

I am aware that under our law, at least two of these parties are liable
to expulsion, but as the petitioner was innocent of intentional deceit, and
the one who recommended him, although seemingly the more culpable, had
no thought or purpose in covering deceit, I concluded to suspend from
Masonry the petitioner, Mr. Arthur F. Garey, and the friend, Bro. Wm. E.
Dyer, who recommended him, until action of the grand lodge was had
thereon, and that this judgment should be entered upon the records of the
lodge.

Upon his recommendation the case was referred to the committee on
jurisprudence, who reported:

In the case of Hiram Lodge, we commend the doings of the grand
master in every particular. While it is probable that a grand master may
in the exercise of the inherent rights of his office have pardoning power,
we fail to find in our constitution any recognition of it, and do not recall
any case in this jurisdiction of a grand master assuming the right to par-
don a violation of law.

Our law bearing upon the case in question does not appear to contem-
plate that its violation could be attended by mitigating circumstances,
whilst, in this case there evidently were ; not sufficient however, to relieve
the offending parties from all blame.

There was a violation of law, but evidently not willful; the commit-
tee are therefore of the opinion that the punishment already suffered is
sufficient, and recommend that the two brethren now under duress be re-
leased and restored to their former standing in Hiram Lodge, taking effect
from this date.

Their recommendation was adopted. We wonder whether while the
committee were seeking to satisfy themselves as to the possible existence

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of a pardoning power among the inherent rights of the grand master's
office, they were also keeping in mind and trying to locate the source of the
power to suspend from Masonry whose exercise they commend. Is it
conferred by the Maine constitution? We have been unable to find it in
the constitution of Freemasonry. Moreover, we observe that in another
case in which two applicants who had been rejected elsewhere were
"worked" into a lodge, the special committee who investigated the case
(Past Grand Masters Burbank and Estes and Past Warden Mallet,)
after satisfying themselves of the culpability of the brother who recom-
mended the petitions, recommended that he be reached in the good old
way, to-wit :

This committee recommend that the grand lodge direct that proper
charges be preferred by his lodge for willful violation of section 96 of the
Grand Lodge Constitution.

Since the issue, in compliance with the vote of last year, of a circular
giving a list of clandestine lodges in Ohio and other states, the grand mas-
ter had received information of two others, Mt. Zion, in Lynn, Mass., and
Massachusetts No. 248, Boston, Mass.

He referred to the committee on correspondence a communication
from the Grand Lodge of Costa Rica, asking recognition. The committee
reported at length, referring for the history of Freemasonry in Costa Rica
and his comments upon the organization of the present grand lodge, to the
report of the former chairman of the committeee, Brother Drummond
(1901) and to his review of the Costa Rican proceedings in his report of
1902, in which, as they correctly say, "he makes no comment, nor during
his term did he recommend to this grand lodge the recognition of the Grand
Lodge of Costa Rica." After referring to the protest of the Supreme
Council of Central America against recognition, of which they properly
make short work, the committee says :

The main contention, however, seems to be whether or not lodges un-
der the jurisdiction of the Supreme Council of Central America have a
right to renounce their allegiance to that body which, Masonically speak-
ing, uses the ritual of Scottish Rite Masonry and is governed by the rules
of that body, and to form a grand lodge which will be under the rule of
the York rite, having and maintaining exclusive control of the E. A., F. G,
and M. M. degrees of Symbolic Masonry.

The settlement of this question will be regarded as of great import-
ance, because, while it involves just now only Costa Rica, the other four
republics of Central America may soon be asking recognition, as well as
other so-called Latin countries.

Brother Drummond said in 1901, "The proceedings in the organization
were regular." What he would have said had he known the whole story
must be left to conjecture. But we believe that in so far as the organiza-
tion is concerned the proceedings are regular.

But to our mind this is not the only thing to be known and settled be-
fore recognition is granted. There is a matter of full as much importance

132 APPENDIX — PART I.

to be decided, viz.: that the grand lodge and its constituent lodges have
set up the ancient landmarks and usages of the fraternity and propose to
conform to, abide by and uphold them.

Referring once again to Brother Drummond's report we find that he
criticises and regrets departures from old usages. We have examined with
care the late proceedings of Costa Rica, and have not discovered such
changes in their fundamental law as might answer the above mentioned
objections, and those made by other Masonic writers.

With the contention between the Supreme Council and the Grand
Lodge we have no part. We regret that brothers cannot live in peace and
unity, and we think that all differences between them should be harmonized,
and that the debt due the Supreme Council, if such debt there be, should
be paid. We hold that three legitimate lodges have the right to organize a
grand lodge.

In view of all the matters herein set forth and others of the same gen-
eral character, your committee do not deem it expedient at this time to
enter into fraternal relations with the Grand Lodge of Costa Rica, but to
wait until such time as all doubts as to their intention to observe and
preserve the ancient landmarks and usages of the fraternity have been
clearly proclaimed. This we report, although we are aware that forty
grand lodges are claimed to have recognized the Grand Lodge of Costa
Rica.

Their recommendation was adopted.

The grand master presented the long-awaited reply to the communi-
cation foreshadowed in the following recommendation adopted by the
Grand Lodge of Maine, May 6, 1902 :

Your committee recommend, therefore, that a fraternal communica-
tion be made to the Grand Orient of Belgium, setting forth the views of
this grand lodge in relation to the Grand Orient of France, fraternally in-
forming our Belgian brethren that we cannot consistently hold Masonic
correspondence with any body of Masons that holds such correspondence
with the Grand Orient of France, and invoking such action on its part as
will enable us to maintain Masonic correspondence with it and admit the
Masons of its obedience to our lodges as visitors.

We reproduce the Belgian communication (which was referred to the
committee on correspondence) that it may be conveniently preserved in
our own archives :

Antwerp, 19 Apr., 1904.

Most Worshipful Sir and Dear Illitst. Brother:

It is with a keen feeling of regret that I have to state not to have been
able to forward my report at an early date, as intended, and I now fear
this will not reach you in time for proper deliberation, which would be
very regrettable indeed. However. I trust my communication will meet
your kind consideration and that of the grand officers and brethren.

It seems that some of the members appointed by our grand committee
to communicate with some of the leading French Masons respecting the
actions of the Grand Orient of France, which caused an absolute abroga-
tion of all relations with said grand orient on the part of nearly all the

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grand lodges of the world, have reported only a short time ago upon the
result of their inquiries, having deemed it better to put off their investiga-
tions until a meeting with the respective brethren could take place in the
Riviera, some short time ago, where a personal exchange of views could
take place.

I beg to state the outlines of the final report made at a recent meeting
of the grand committee, to be about as follows :

A large majority of the French Masons, one may say all those known
as intelligent and enlightened men, are engaged in a fight for rational lib-
erty and a good many of them act as leaders among those determined
to overthrow ecclesiastical persecution. All that has been achieved in
that direction in France until now, is due solely to the courage and
to the immense efforts and perseverance of the Masons. The greater
part of them are members of the different chapters under the juris-
diction of the Supreme Council of France. The constitution of the
supreme councils demand, as no doubt you know, a declaration in
writing of the applicant's belief in the G. A. of the U. However, many of
those brethren term themselves, or suffer themselves to be termed, free-
thinkers, a term adopted to designate those who are members of that pow-
erful League created to throw down the consolidated force of clericalism
and battle against the tyranny of the priesthood, not against religion — it
would be wrong, however, to designate all freethinkers as being atheists.

Some of the most intelligent and high-placed men in France, mostly
members of the brotherhood, are so called freethinkers, which means that
they do not accept nor adhere to the dogmas of the church or submit to
confession — but they recognize and uphold liberty of thought and con-
science and tolerance in religion. They consider all philosophic or religious
opinions as entitled to respect, if they are the result of a free conviction.
Occasionally they proclaim a dogma to be a truth packed ready for trans-
portation, and "authority" the ship in which the dogma sails — they main-
tain that no soul can live on dogmas that cannot be opened into truth and
that only the truth, which the soul appropriates, gives life.

Apart from the objection or inability of the enlightened freethinkers
to entertain (as do a large number of other men and Masons in all parts
of the world) the conception of a personal God — a conception to which
may be largely attributed, as they say, the power of the church respect-
ively, the priesthood — they maintain that, once the firm conviction rooted
in men, that more satisfaction, more happiness can be obtained through
their own power, energy and initiative, by observing moral laws and fol-
lowing Christ's precept, "Love each other," than by expecting to derive
benefits and happiness from the dispositions of Providence. They would
cease to desire the guardianship of the priesthood, likewise would the
authority and power of the latter cease to be exercised as is now the case,
the priests would remain within a proper useful sphere as teachers of love
among men and as guardians and examples of pure morality, with no
voice in public affairs, and in such a capacity they would render humanity
greater services than all the millions annually spent, especially in Catholic
countries, to prepare human beings for death.

Our French brethren say (and it is but too true) that the influence
of the priests over the human minds is gained largely by the obligatory
confessions to which they subject their adherents and whom they compel
to recognize them (the priests) as the authorized medium between them-
selves and their God, claiming to be invested with power to give absolu-
tion if they think fit, or condemn to everlasting suffering.

134 APPENDIX — PART I

The Catholic priests have ever been the privileged teachers of the
human race, pretending that the only happiness and salvation of mankind
can be found in what they teach, but have they ever taught lessons of love,
peace on earth and good will to man with the same purity as Freemasonry?
The hatred and fanaticism they have awakened, the cruelty, the tears, the
ignorance they have caused, defies description and can only be understood
by those, who had direct experience of the inquisities, of which such
priests are capable, and they do all professedly in the name of religion and
of the faith.

The church of Rome, in her opposition to all liberty of thought and
tolerance in religion, has always been the enemy of Freemasonry. She hates
our noble institution, because it is founded on liberty of thought and tol-
erance in religion, knowing nothing of distinctive dogmas or conflicting
creeds, having truth for its center.

Freemasonry has always been designated as the torchlight of civiliza-
tion, and its role should always be to enlighten humanity. In Catholic
countries it has a special, a noble mission to perform, that is, to free the
enslaved minds from the shackles of tyranny. The French Masons are
perfectly aware of their mission. They have taken up with energy and
confidence the great struggle of light against darkness, of right against
wrong, of sympathy against cruelty and oppression. Their watchword is :
"The tyranny of priesthood must fall, shall fall — the glorious yet mysteri-
ous light of Freemasonry shall shine, must shine!"

In both France and Belgium the enemies of light and liberty are very
strong and numerous, perhaps more so in Belgium, where a clerical gov-
ernment has held the reins for years, and where ignorance and fanaticism
possess most formidable strongholds. In Belgium, of course, Masonry is
not recognized officially, and the Belgium Masons find themselves con-
tinually at war with said enemies ; individual Masons are opposed almost in
every phase of their existence.

If the Catholic priests were less intolerant and less tyrannical, free
thinkers would not exist. The standpoint which the Masons have taken in
the different Catholic countries can only be explained as an expression of
a counteraction against the priesthood.

The result of the discussion respecting the report of the committee
authorized to correspond or exchange ideas with a certain number of in-
fluential Masons in France relative to pending questions, has been the
adoption of the following resolution :

"Acknowledging that the Grand Orient of France is guilty of certain
unmasonic actions, which deserve criticism, but, in consideration of the
fact that the French Masons are battling against the same common enemy
of Freemasonry as their Belgian brethren, the latter cannot but be in sym-
pathy with their French brethren, who are fighting so manfully for free-
dom of thought and action, for themselves and their children."

The resolution arrived at is the result of an extensive, thorough re-
flection, and I venture to hope that my communications will meet with due
consideration on your part. I venture to believe that, if your good self
and the grand officers of Maine will, in your minds, only for a moment
place yourselves in the position of the Grand Orient of Belgium, you can-
not very well conclude an abrogation of your relations with us because
we entertain relations with the Grand Orient of France.

Please convey to the grand officers and brethren in session on May 3,
next, on the part of the grand master and grand officers of Belgium, their
best wishes for the welfare and prosperity of the Grand Lodge of Maine
and the Masons of Maine for all time to come.

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In conclusion, permit me to mention that the Grand Lodge of the
District of Columbia, having been represented at the late Masonic con-
gress at Geneva by Bro. Dr. S.* L. Roger Watts, has just requested the
Grand Orient of Belgium to exchange representatives.

At said Masonic congress, held under the auspices of the Grand Lodge
"Alpine," 34 grand lodges and' supreme councils were represented, among
them three Australian grand lodges and the Grand Orient of France.

Accept fraternal greetings and the assurance of high personal esteem.

Albert J. Kruger.

[Note. The Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia, referred to, is
a negro grand lodge, not recognized in this country.]

The grand master declined a re-election.

The report of the grand secretary (Stephen Berry) opens with the
following item of information :

No one remains on the registration list, the term of the last having
expired in November, 1903.

Several years ago, when the rights and wrongs of non-affiliates was
one of the uppermost questions, provision was made in the Maine regula-
tions for the registration of non-affiliates (involuntary or otherwise) who
by the payment of a stipulated annual sum (we think it was one dollar)
might keep in active touch with the fraternity, enjoying about the same
privileges unquestioned, as their affiliated brethren. The number regis-
tered was small from the start, and finally as we have seen the last of
them has gone, and a motion coming over from last year to strike the pro-
vision out of the constitution, was adopted. A pending amendment to
provide for dual membership, was defeated. One new lodge was chartered,
and one lodge continued under dispensation.

Hugh R. Chaplin, of Bangor, was elected grand master; Stephen
Berry, Portland, re-elected grand secretary.

The report on correspondence (184 pp.) is again the work of Past
Grand Master Aldro E. Chase. The report is a strong, conservative and
most interesting paper. He sizes himself up as conservative, and so he is,
but not slow.

We have seen nothing keener or more complete than his characteriza-
tion, in so few words, of the circus feature which has found a lodgment
in Masonry within the last third of a century. He says :

We are of a conservative nature. We believe in Masonry as it existed
in the days of our fathers ; we mean before all the hurry and bustle of the
present day, when there was time for everything, and everything at a
proper time ; in the days when the attentive ear caught the true meaning
of Masonry, and it was not thought necessary by means of robes and glit-
tering paraphernalia, to teach Masonry to a candidate through his eyes.
As a matter of fact it is "light in Masonry" that the candidate is seeking
and it is only by a study of the teachings of Masonry through his brains

13t) APPENDIX — PART I.

that his heart becomes filled with pure Masonic love to God, his neighbor,

and himself.

Brother Chase finds material for four pages of extract, comment and
reflection in our proceedings for 1903.

To our remark that we saw no reason why a dispensation should be
required (as in Maine) to enable a lodge to move from one room to an-
other in the same town, he says :

We reply that in this jurisdiction there is no exception to the rule
which requires a hall to be inspected before occupancy that its security
may be known, and upon such information a dispensation issues.

It is customary everywhere to require petitioners for a dispensation
for a new lodge, to produce the certificate of a neighboring lodge vouching
for the fitness and security of their proposed apartments, but a full fledged
lodge that is trusted with the whole conduct of matters Masonic in its
neighborhood, ought to give as good a judgment as the grand master, as
to the security of their lodge room.

MARYLAND, 1903.

ii/TH Annual. Baltimore. November 17.

This attractive volume contains portraits of Past Grand Master
Charles H. Ohr, whose service in the grand east was from 1849 to 1852;
Jacob H. Medairy, emeritus grand secretary, and his successor, Grand Sec-
retary William M. Isaac, past senior grand warden.

One past grand master, John M. Carter, the only survivor of that
rank, and the representatives of forty-two jurisdictions, were present at the
semi-annual communication. May 12, David C. Avery answering for Illinois.

Past Grand Master Carter announced the death of Past Grand Master
Ohr, in his 92d year and briefly sketched his long and fruitful Masonic
career. In part, he says :

Dr. Ohr was truly a prince and lawgiver among Masons. Coming into
the fraternity in 1839, just as the Morgan excitement was beginning to
wane, he found a mere handful of men who had stood firm at their posts
during the troublous period.

But thirteen lodges with an affiliated membership of 300 remained of
a large and prosperous Masonic community which encountered the storm a
dozen years before. In the other states than our own the losses had been
even more severe. Benjamin C. Howard and Joseph K. Stapleton had been
the sheet anchors of ancient craft Masonry and the Capitular and Templar
degrees throughout the storm, and their benign influence had been exerted
all over the land.

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But these brethren and their compeers had grown old in the service
and earned a rest from the wearing labors of their splendid work of
stemming the tide of persecution and malice. Young, vigorous and zealous
men were needed to rebuild the fabric and re-establish and rehabilitate
the well nigh destroyed remnant of Freemasonry in our state.

Brother Ohr and his brother in law. Daniel A. Piper, undertook this
difficult task. Shortly after being made a Mason he organized Tonoloway
Lodge at Hancock. The following year he removed to Baltimore and
with Brother Piper revived Washington Lodge No. 3. In 1846 he assisted
in the organization of Adherence Lodge No. 88, and the following year, re-
moving to Cumberland, he inaugurated the resuscitation of Cumberland
Lodge No. 61. Of all four of these lodges he served as worshipful master,
and was the leading spirit in their establishment and reorganization.

Nor were his services in this behalf confined to his own state. As
chairman of the committee of correspondence in the grand lodge his
writings were disseminated throughout the country during the period of
reconstruction. They attracted widespread attention and high commenda-
tion. Without indulging in bitterness or vain regrets at the persecution
which had well nigh wrought the ruin of Freemasonry in America, he
devoted himself to the upbuilding of the Institution and the encouragement
of those who had remained faithful during the troublous period and the
recruits who had the courage to join the standard.

For nearly half a century after his retirement from the grand east, till
age and enfeebled health prevented, he journeyed from his mountain home
to the meetings of the grand lodge in Baltimore.

The grand master (Thomas J. Shryock) said that he had requested
Potomac Lodge No. 100, of which the decased was a member, to tempo-
rarily suspend the steps taken to collect funds for raising a momument to
his memory, until the matter had been submitted to the grand lodge, as in
view of the great services of the Past Grand Master Ohr to the craft
throughout the whole state, that body ought to contribute, and all the
lodges ought to have an apportunity to do so. The grand lodge appro-
priated $200, and the grand master stated that he would cause a circular let-
ter to be addressed to all the lodges, and appoint a committee on the sub-
ject.

The grand chaplain (Hehry Branch) paid high and loving tribute to
the character and personality of Bro. Jacob H. Medairy, just retired from
the office of grand secretary after a service of forty years, and incidentally
he tells the story of that retirement :

Brother Medairy was born under the administration of Grand Master
William H. Winder, made a Mason under the administration of Grand
Master Charles Gilman, Joseph Robinson -being grand secretary, whom he
succeeded. He was thus cotemporary for half a century with Grand Mas-
ter Benjamin C. Howard and looked upon the faces of sixteen grand mas-
ters, all of whom he survives, with the exception of two here to-night,
Brother Carter and yourself.

13b APPENDIX — PART I.

It is a proud satisfaction to us that we can stand here, and send to our
dear old friend and brother and indeed Father in Israel this greeting, that
his ears may catch the notes of our loving voices as with uncovered heads
we greet him, if not the oldest grand secretary in the world, which we
honestly believe, at least our own partial judgment proclaims him the
grandest old secretary in all the world, and we most heartily endorse the
action of our most worshipful grand master in granting him the privilege of
retiring upon his laurels while we dub him Grand Secretary Emeritus!

At the annual communication, when fortunately Brother Medairy felt
able to visit the grand lodge, after he had been received with the grand
honors and welcomed to the grand east, the following was unamimously
adopted by a rising vote :

The Grand lodge A. F. and A. M. of Maryland acknowledges with
grateful appreciation the invaluable services of Bro. Jacob H. Mediary, its
able and faithful grand secretary for forty years.

After such long and useful service our good brother, now verging upon
82 years of age, has fairly earned a rest from his labors.

Be it Therefore Resolved, That Bro. Jacob H. Mediary he and he is
hereby elected Grand Secretary Emeritus of this grand lodge, with con-
tinued annual salary, for the remainder of his life, which we trust may be
prolonged for many years.

The hope expressed in the concluding words of the resolution was not
long realized ; his passing occurred in the succeeding February, as we
learn from the Iowa proceedings. His biographer, writing while he was still
living, says of him and of the long period covered by his varied services :

He has seen American Masonry in its crippled and decimated condi-
tion, just recovering from the tornado which swept over the land, until
now it flourishes like a green bay tree from north to south and from east
to west. When he entered upon his duties as grand secretary our civil
strife was at its height ; he was foremost in alleviating the strained condi-
tions in a divided community and in aiding to unite the dismembered sec-
tions. He has lived to see those sections welded together in the contest
against a foreign foe.

He taught Masonry to the friends of his youth, and has instructed their
sons and grandsons in the profession of their fathers. During all this
time he has illustrated the teachings of the institution in his blameless life
and conversation, adding to the record of a good Mason that of a consistent
and devout Christian.

The proceedings of the annual communication were, except as noticed
above, almost wholly of local interest only. The "almost" lets in the fol-
lowing from the record :

A communication from Idris Bey Ragheb, grand master of Egypt,
asking for fraternal recognition.

Referred to the committee of correspondence.

A communication from the Grand Orient of Brazil asking for an ex-
change of representatives was received.

Referred to the committee of correspondence.

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE. 139

The M. W. grand master here referred to the fact that the chairman
of the committee of correspondence was present, though absent a year
ago, for reasons stated in his address on page 87, printed proceedings, Nov-
ember communication, 1902.

R. W. Bro. Schultz responded pleasantly and admitted that if absent
again he would not have the same excuse.

He then referred to his long association with the R. W. grand secre-
tary, and of his pleasant relations with the grand lodge for a period of
nearly half a century.

Our readers who remember the cause of Brother Schultz's absence
one year before, will see the point of his admission. He was at home with
his bride of fifty years, celebrating the golden anniversary of their wedding.

A proposed amendment looking to the discontinuance of the publica-
tion of the returns of lodges was defeated.

The grand secretary publishes a note to the proceedings, stating that
the chairman of the committee on correspondence had him say that the re-
port of the committee on the application of the National Grand Lodge of
Egypt would be favorable to granting the request.

Thomas J. Shryock was re-elected grand master; William M. Isaac
elected grand secretary, both of Baltimore.

The report on correspondence (125 pp.) is the seventeenth from the
hand of the distinguished chairman of the committee, Bro. Edward T.
Schultz, and bears the familiar marks of his ability and patient and
thoroughgoing scholarship.

His notice of Illinois is of our proceedings of 1902, those of 1903 hav-
ing reached him too late for notice. The conditions upon which only the
decision of Grand Master Moulton permitted the calling of a lodge from
labor to refreshment strike him as novel, his views being in accord with
the dissenting opinion of the committee on jurisprudence.

The decision of the grand lodge that the loss of the left hand by an
elected candidate barred his initiation he regards as correct while deplor-
ing the hardship of the case. He pays us the compliment of quoting from
our report on subjects as to which we are in accord.

That children ask troublesome questions has become proverbial ; the
following suggestive interrogative, found in his notice of Michigan, is
not, however, an indication that Brother Schultz has reached his second

childhood :

The grand secretary reports that the revised ritual ordered by the
grand lodge was printed, and that he had notified the master of lodges to
return old ones, when the new ones would be furnished. He reports that
all but six of the old rituals were returned. Query — what has become of
the six?

140 APPENDIX — PART I.

The grand master of South Carolina having quoted from their regula-
tions to prove that a non-affiliate could not preach a sermon before a lodge
on St. John's Day, Brother Schultz says :

Of course the ruling of the grand master is correct, in view of the
constitutional regulation of his jurisdiction, but we hold that the regula-
tion is not a proper one. A non-affiliate has no right to visit a lodge or to
participate in the ceremonies of the fraternity, but a lodge may extend to a
worthy non-affiliate the privilege to attend a meeting of the lodge and to
participate in the ceremonies of the fraternity, and we think the grand lodge
has no rightful power to hinder subordinates from extending such cour-
tesies to a non-affiliate, when it sees proper to do so.

Of the necessity for cipher rituals, he says :

The position of the craft in Virginia regarding the use of Cypher
Rituals is precisely the same as held by the brethren in Maryland, al-
though several correspondents doubt the correctness of the statement made
by us that such things are not now, nor have they ever been used by any
grand lecturer or disseminator of the work in our state during our Ma-
sonic life of nearly fifty years.

As we wrote the above our grand lecturer, Brother Graham Dukehart,
dropped in upon us, and after reading what we had written, he authorized
us to say that during his seventeen years occupancy of the position of
grand lecturer he has visited every lodge in the jurisdiction at least once
each year, some lodges more frequently, and thus became acquainted with
the officers of all the lodges during that long period, and he has never seen
or heard of any officer acquiring a knowledge of the work of Masonry in
any other than the lawful manner, that is from mouth to ear.

If Brother Shaver and other brethren who regard the use of cypher
rituals as a "necessary evil," will permit us to suggest that if they will ad-
vocate the appointment of a grand lecturer, or, in large jurisdictions, sev-
eral of them, selecting for the position brethren not only well grounded in
the work and lectures of the several degrees, but are patient, painstaking
and willing to give of their time and labor to all who will receive instruc-
tion, they will in a few years find and come to regard as do the craft in
Virginia, Maryland, and, we are glad to say, in a number of other jurisdic-
tions, that the use of cypher rituals is not a necessary, but an unmitigated,
"evil."

Scattered all through Brother Schultz's report are these bits of wis-
dom which we should be glad to transfer to our pages, but we are begin-
ning to have a suspicion that those pages are multiplying at an unwonted
rate and we must forbear.

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE. 141

MASSACHUSETTS, 1903.

113TH Annual. Boston. December 9.

The portraits of the year are two, both steel engravings — Charles T.
Gallagher, junior past grand master, and Samuel Wells, who was
grand master for three years, beginning in 1890, and whose death at sixty-
seven, was announced at the quarterly communication of December 9.

Brother Wells was a native of Maine, son of a former supreme
judge and governor of that state, and became eminent as a lawyer, a sci-
entist and philanthropist, was an active member of many societies for the
promotion of good citizenship and civic pride, and as an evidence of his
many-sided accomplishments, his biographer mentions that he was among
the first in this country to use the microscope in photography.

The grand master, Baalis Sanford, presided at all the communica-
tions held during the year, regular and special.

At the quarterly of March II, the only item of general interest re-
corded was the following statement presented by Thomas W. Davis, the
chairman of a committee whose report on the subject of "Grand Lodge
Sovereignty," we reviewed in our report of 1902 :

In the "Review of a Report of a Masonic Committee," which has re-
cently been distributed among members of this body, it is asserted that
"the chairman of that committee is a Scottish Rite Mason," although
Grand Master Gallagher had stated that the only qualification required by
him was that neither of the members of the committee had taken any de-
grees of the Scottish Rite of any kind. This is so direct an impeachment
of the fairness and honesty of the committee, that I desire the privilege
of saying in this place that I have never received any degrees of the Scot-
tish Rite; that I have never applied for any such degrees; and that I
never made the statement attributed to me on page 29 of the "Review."
I respectfully ask that this communication be made a matter of record.

That the action of Grand Master Gallagher in excluding Scottish
Riters from the committee was not held to be seriously inimical to the
imperial interest, is shown by the fact that he himself was "crowned" at
the succeeding meeting of the supreme council.

Meanwhile — at the quarterly of June 10, 1903 — another echo of Brother
Davis's report of March, 1902, was heard, or heard of, the grand master
announcing that a petition had been received by him which appeared to
be substantially the same as one on the same subject which was fully and
carefully considered and unanimously dismissed at the March communi-
cation of the preceding year. In doubt whether the subject should so soon
be presented to the grand lodge, he had decided to submit the question
of its reception to a committee of the grand lodge, which he would name

142 APPENDIX — PART I.

hereafter. The committee thus appointed reported at the September quar-
terly. Its report was substantially a repetition of the information con-
tained in the grand master's statement, with a recommendation that the
petition be not submitted to the grand lodge for consideration, in which
the grand lodge concurred.

Inasmuch as the grand master had the grand lodge conveniently be-
fore him when he first brought the matter up, one marvels why it did
not occur to him to ask them then whether it should be submitted, rather
than wait three months and then answer without any additional informa-
tion. Was it thought that it would take three months for a majority to
get over the shock of the suggestion that the right of petition should be
denied ?

At the quarterly of June 10, 1903, the grand master announced the
death of William G. Allen, district deputy grand master, in his seven-
tieth year. At the same communication the recording grand secretary,
Past Grand Master Sereno D. Nickerson, reviewed the most recent at-
tempts of the Pennsylvania brethren to claim for Philadelphia the honor,
so long conceded to Boston, of being the birthplace of regular Masonry
in this country. Thirty years ago we called attention to the evidence go-
ing to show that a lodge of Masons probably existed in Philadelphia prior
to the organization of Price's provincial grand lodge (St John's) in 1733,
and to the certainty that the Philadelphia lodge was a self-created body,
existing without a warrant from any pre-existing grand lodge. None of
the "discoveries" of recent years have seemed to us to afford any reason
for us to doubt the correctness of the conclusion we then formed.

The occasion of Brother Nickerson's review of the subject was a
renewal of Philadelphia's claim by some of the orators at the celebration
by the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, of the sesqui-centennial anniversary
of Washington's initiation.

At the conclusion of Brother Nickerson's address Past Grand Mas-
ter Gallagher, who was a guest at the celebration referred to, asked that
the historical statements made by the grand secretary be reduced to writ-
ing and published in the proceedings. Continuing:

He stated further, that while it was his pleasure to be received with
a royal and fraternal welcome at the celebration of the 150th anniversary
of the initiation of George Washington as a Mason, at Philadelphia, in
November last, the cordiality of the greeting and the hospitable entertain-
ment were marred, in a measure, for him by the reference of the grand
master of Pennsylvania, in his opening address at the banquet, which has
since appeared in print, to the claim of Pennsylvania to precedence of
charters ; but without an opportunity to the grand master of Massachu-
setts to reply, as all the toasts had been printed and provided for before-
hand.

Past Grand Master Gallagher referred to the fact that the grand
master of the District of Columbia had occasion to pass on the question

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of the priority of charters at the ceremonies of dedication of the Wash-
ington monument, February 21, 1855, which occurred since the "Henry
Bell letter," so-called, was made public; and after hearing all the evi-
dence, decided in favor of Massachusetts as to precedence; further, that,
as he remembered it, no allusion was made at the 150th anniversary by
W. Bro. James M. Lamberton, son of the R. W. brother referred to by
Brother Nickerson, in his remarks, to the "Henry Bell letter," or any
claim of precedence on the part of Pennsylvania over Massachusetts. Nor
was any reference made by Grand Master Tennis to the "Henry Bell let-
ter," so far as he can recall, but the assumption was made by him in his
address without adducing any evidence except inference.

Past Grand Master Gallagher remarked that it would have been un-
kind to have held the presiding officer, or toast-master, responsible for
statements made at a public banquet of seven hundred brethren, when the
statements were made "between walnuts and wine ;" but as the remarks
had since appeared in print in the report of their proceedings, he felt it
proper to refer to them at the present time, and stated that the claim of
Pennsylvania reminded him of the answer made by Thomas F. Marshall,
after great claims had been made on another occasion, substantially as
follows: "Philadelphia claims two great, noble, heroic sons, Albert Gal-
latin, of Geneva, Szvitzerland, and Benjamin Franklin, of Boston."

At the September quarterly the minutes show the following reference
to "Irregular Proceedings at Flome :"

The recording grand secretary gave some details as to the spurious
work of certain expelled Masons of New York and Massachusetts, as-
sisted by scarcely less discreditable pretenders claiming authority from the
bogus Grand Lodge of Ohio, so-called. These shameless deceivers of
humble and ignorant victims were pretending to make Masons of persons
of an inferior class who would never be received in regular lodges and
would hardly venture to apply. The hard earnings of these easy dupes,
many of whom could speak English only indifferently, were being trans-
ferred to the pockets of unscrupulous and notorious adventurers.

One of the most useful and efficient safeguards against the recogni-
tion of cowans and eavesdroppers is the grand lodge certificate, which has
long been in use by the brethren of this commonwealth and has now been
adopted by the Grand Lodge of New York.

Upon motion of the grand secretary it was unanimously voted, that
this grand lodge earnestly recommends to the grand lodges throughout the
country the adoption of a regulation requiring of every visiting brother the
production of a grand lodge certificate as a preliminary to examination ;
and that the grand secretary be authorized to request that in all other
jurisdictions orders may be issued requiring the production of such a cer-
tificate from all brethren hailing from Massachusetts, as a preliminary to
the compliance with all local regulations now existing.

These grand lodge certificates were provided in Massachusetts at the
time of our making (1856") the situation that called them into use being
the New York schism of 1850, with its two resulting grand lodges. At
the December quarterly the grand master renewed the caution against
spurious Masons in his annual address. The following remarks indicate
that the imposture was being pushed with no small measure of profit :

144 APPENDIX— PART I.

I consider it my duty to allude to a matter of much importance to the
craft, and to caution the masters and wardens of lodges against impostors
and spurious Masons. This species of fraud crops out periodically, and
at the present time is being revived with no small degree of energy. Hun-
dreds of victims have been inveigled into taking so-called degrees by
misrepresentation and falsehood, from unscrupulous parties, who are ad-
vertising in the daily papers for candidates for degrees, which they have
no legal authority to confer.

Among the visitations reported by Grand Master Sanford was the
following:

October 3, attended a special communication of St. John's Lodge at
the temple in Boston ; the occasion being the reception of the officers of
Fitzroy Lodge A. F. and A. M. of London, Eng., who were visiting in
Boston, and who had kindly consented to confer the third degree in full
upon a candidate, in accordance with the English ritual and in full regalia.
Corinthian Hall was completely filled with the members of St. John's Lodge
and invited guests. I was honored in having upon my suite R. W. Past
Grand Masters Sereno D. Nickerson, Charles C. Hutchison and Charles
T. Gallagher, and a large number of the officers and permanent members
of the grand lodge ; also M. W. Olin W. Daley, grand master of Masons
in Vermont, who was accompanied by his grand marshal, W. Bro. George
F. Root. The ceremonies of conferring the degree were watched with the
closest attention by the immense audience and heartily enjoyed. Although
the phraseology was quite at variance with our own, the essentials were
all embodied in their ritual. After the ceremonies the company enjoyed a
social entertainment at the banquet-table, where speeches were listened to
from several of the brethren.

Of especial interest to us is his report of his visit to Wyoming Lodge,
at Melrose, our mother lodge, in which he chronicles the presence of Bro.
Samuel Ellison, the oldest living member, who at ninety-four years of
age "seemed as zealous and interested in the ceremonies of the evening
as any of his younger brethren. Although he was many years our senior
we knew Brother Ellison quite intimately. His initiation preceded ours
by only a few weeks, both of us having been made while the lodge was
working under a dispensation.

The grand master reported having granted dispensations for three
lodges in China, one at Tientsin, the other two at Shanghai. The petitions
for these lodges were recommended by Ancient Landmark Lodge, Shang-
hai, chartered by the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts in 1864. Should these
new lodges receive charters, we shall look for a movement to establish
an independent grand lodge in China.

Baalis Sanford, of Brockton, grand master; Sereno D. Nickerson,
Cambridge, grand secretary (address, Masonic Temple, Boston,) were
re-elected.

The grand officers were installed at the stated communication of De-
cember 29, held for that purpose and for the celebration of the Feast of
St. John the evangelist.

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At the conclusion of the ceremonies, or to be exact about it —

At fifteen minutes after six o'clock p. m. the craft were called from
labor to refreshment and proceeded to the banquet hall, where the Feast
of Saint John the Evangelist was celebrated in due and ancient form,
after the manner of Masons.

Between that time and the hour of ten o'clock p. m. the Feast — with
a big F — gastronomical, social and intellectual, was celebrated in ample
form.

We have rarely if ever ventured to quote from the speeches at the
Feast, because the temptation is too great to keep on quoting. This time
we venture to make one brief exception to show how men recognized as
among those who carry forward the world's work, can unbend in the
trusting fellowship of the Masonic circle, and with wit and badinage smooth
out the wrinkles on the brow of care.

The Rev. Edward A. Horton, of national fame as a preacher and as
an after-dinner speaker, the junior grand chaplain of the Grand Lodge
of Massachusetts, is never permitted to escape at the grand feast. Some-
times he gets back at the toastmaster (the grand master, sometimes an-
other,) but always makes it lively for somebody. This year he said, in
part :

There has been a great deal said tonight about liquidation and the
benevolent assimilation of liquids. I am not going to say which two were
the characters of this accurate, truthful story, but there were two mem-
bers of the grand lodge who went off in the summer together. They were
in a Pullman car, and one left the other for the smoking compartment.
He smoked, and he came back, and he found his companion looking rather
lugubrious, looking rather glum, and he said, "Well, what is the matter?"
"Well," was the reply, "I declare, I have lost the best part of my baggage."
"You don't say," said the first. "Yes, I have." "Well," he queried, "was
it stolen, or did you leave it behind?" "No," was the doleful answer, "the
cork came out."

I have a fair decree of admiration for the parsons, especially for my
beloved and patriarchal colleague ; but he was in a great state of pertur-
bation, I believe that is the word, agitation of mind, upstairs, even in the
midst of the impressive ceremonies. He said to me, "Horton, Horton, I
understand there is going to be a restraint placed on the feast tonight."
"Why," I said, "what do you mean?" "Oh," he said, "we are sworn to
be true to all the traditions, and one of the traditions, — you know, Horton,
what it is, — sherry ! I am afraid I shall not get it !" But I noticed by a
proper interview of the Ethiopian who waited on this section that he got
his due share.

Now, to refer to parsons once more, you, Most Worshipful Grand Mas-
ter, must have a very exalted idea of them. You praise them, and I be-
lieve, sincerely; and I hope you will never loose that admiration for them;
but when I think of the many times we talk, of the many subjects we have
to speak on, and how we afflict so many audiences, I am reminded of a
story which occurred in a professor's family. The professor had a
domestic who admired him very much. Her range of intellect was

146 APPENDIX— PART I.

not quite on his plane, but she decided to go and hear him one day. She
went; she came home, and she said to her mistress, "Oh, I did so enjoy
the professor; oh, he talked so beautifully." "Well," said her mistress,
"did you understand him?" "Oh, no, missis, I didn't attempt to under-
stand him, but I said to myself, says I, 'How he do enjoy himself!'"

Now we do enjoy ourselves; that is, as long as people stay to hear
us ; and we count it a victory, as Holmes used to, a success, if more people
stay in than go out. Said the boy to the mother who had been listening
to a preacher, "Why do you call him doctor, — Dr. So-and-So?" "Why,
because he is a doctor of divinity." "Well, mamma, what kind of a dis-
ease is that?" I think it is greatly the malady of much talking.

Now here is my friend Stevens with a lot of bottled-up eloquence ;
here are others ; I have no doubt that the new deputy grand master will
let loose some fine sentiments.

But Brother Horton is equally master in another vein :

I love to hear testimonies from outsiders to the value of anything I
cherish. It seems to come, such proof as that, unbiased and impartial.
What is Masonry worth to the many elements and conditions of this land,
of society, of progress? We know, we recall to ourselves the convincing
arguments and data ; but here is a minister, outside the order, who has
lately promulgated sentiments which have been copied all over the land, —
some of you may have read what he said, — he has issued this announce-
ment of his sincere convictions that "Freemasonry, for instance, can teach
the church — organized religion — a great deal at the present time. And I
am talking of matters up to date, as we stand just crossing the threshold
of this twentieth century."

He says "In the first instance we can learn from Freemasonry how to
make more impressive and dignified those exercises and services which
always accompany the public recognition of the Almighty and our pledges
to humanity." And he said, not knowing at first hand, — if he had, ah, then
lie would have spoken with a rhetoric and with a force which might have
dazzled his hearers, — he spoke from hearsay, "There is dignity, magnifi-
cence, solemnity, impressiveness, earnestness, carried home to every par-
ticipant." And you and I know that that is true. You and I know that
when we come from the clamor and babel of life, when we emerge from
our separate pathways where the din of competition fills our ears, and
enter that circle of a lodge, of the grand lodge, of our order, there then
seizes hold of us, owing to the noble ritual, owing to the devotion of sin-
cere exercises, a mood, an uplift which we do not seem to acquire else-
where, and which is truly, and not in metaphor, the harmonizing quality
which binds in beautiful pattern the disarranged threads of our thoughts
and our feelings. Is that not true? You have witnessed it, many of you
today. What does that minister outside of us say further? "Give heed,
give heed, ye worshipers in churches of all denominations! Look to it!
The fraternity and brotherhood which flow from the pages of the gospels,
which are the watchwords and maxims of Christianitv, are not practiced
in the churches of today as they are in the orders of Freemasonry."

Men say these words of good will ; they repeat in the outer world
these stanzas of poets who have presaged the brotherhood of man ; but
when you want to get the realization of it and the magnitude of it in the
hand-clasp and the heart-touch that man kindles in hundreds of others, —
to do that you want to get into Freemasonry, to know what the spirit
of it is.

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Now I want one more witness on another branch, another point of
contact which Freemasonry has with life. In the autobiography of Senator
Hoar — a delightful mine for the New Englander, especially — what does
Hoar say about Freemasonry? He is not a Freemason himself. He says
he never joined, but has had warm friends belonging to it. Then he goes
on and adds: "I want to say that in all the experience of my life as a
lawyer, in the contest of cases, I never heard, I never saw any proof, of
what people say in the world, — that a Freemason on the jury ever gave
away his judgment for what was right or just in the case." I call that,
sir, one of the noblest testimonies we can possibly cite for the individual
judgment, the individual conscience, the impression of the spirit we pro-
duce with regard to holding the scales when we come to adjudicating the
claims of our own humanity in the courts of justice.

We have this brotherhood ; we are loyal each to each ; but we are
taught by the very spirit and maxims of our order that when it comes to
justice, there we stand, and we stand for all humanity, better and stronger
just because we are Freemasons.

Now, to make myself abbreviated properly, I want to allude to only
one more thing, — education. Education is the watchword of the republic.
If you cannot make your units intelligent and strong, your thousands and
millions amount to nothing. Put idiots together in innumerable array and
they are idiots still. Bad men arrayed are bad men all the worse. Now,
what does P'reemasonry do? Up-to-date talking in regard to marauding
the great public school education of the country ? No ; it does this, em-
phatically this, — and to our honor, — it puts forward industrial training, it
puts forward the honor of manual instruction ; it lays down the law that
a man shall be worth something in the world for what he can do in the
factory, in the office, in the professor's chair, in the pulpit, — everywhere.
That is a part of the fundamental principle of our order, — that work, hon-
est, noble, bare-armed or bare-browed labor, is a part of the country's and
the world's best welfare.

And there were others ; and all with something worth the hearing.

MICHIGAN, 1904.

6oth Annual. Lansing. January 26.

The frontispiece of the Michigan volume is a half-length portrait of
the retiring grand master (Roscoe W. Broughton), and borne, alas! on
memorial pages are similar portraits of George H. Durand and Arthur M.
Clark, past grand masters, and Jefferson S. Conover, grand secretary.
Fourteen past grand masters were present and four more, ill at home —
Mitchell, Metcai.f, Dunham and McMillan, were wired the following
message :

"Every brother here misses you and sincerely prays for your speedy
recovery. Grand lodge has just unanimously voted to wire you, that though
absent, you are by no means forgotten."

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Thirty-five of the diplomatic corps were in evidence, including Arthur
M. Hume, of Owosso, the envoy from Illinois.

Upon the grand master fell the sad duty of announcing the death of
three of the foremost men of the grand lodge, their names we have already
given.

. Past Grand Master Durand, dead in his sixty-seventh year, a native of
New York, was in turn teacher, lawyer, mayor of his home city (Flint),
congressman, judge of the supreme court. He reached the grand east
in 1875, and of his service there, his eulogist (Past Grand Master Carton)
says :

His administration as grand master was one of the most brilliant in
the history of this grand jurisdiction. The addresses which were given by
him on Masonic occasions while grand master are rare gems in Masonic
literature. He loved Masonry and believed thoroughly in its principles,
and he gave freely of his time and talent in the promotion of the institution
and the exemplification of the great principles for which it stands.

Past Grand Master Clark was a native of New Hampshire, where,
after earning his way through college, he taught three years and then came
to Lexington, Michigan, as principal of schools, and there later lived the
active life of a business man. He was a regent of the state university, and
for five years U. S. Consul at Sarnia, Ontario. He served the Masons of
Michigan for twenty-three years as grand lecturer, eight years before his
election to the grand east in 1884, and fifteen years thereafter, givng his
heart and soul to the cause. Of this service and its reward the grand mas-
ter says :

The love and affection of his brethren was his reward. A member of
this grand lodge for forty-five years his face was familiar to every repre-
sentative. His kindness of heart, his genial ways, his affable address, made
him the personal friend of every Mason in this jurisdiction. His passing
away breaks one of the strongest links that binds us to the past.

Grand Secretary Conover had served in that office for eleven years
when death called him at sixty-two. His boyhood days were spent in
his native village in New York. Later he was teacher, soldier, journalist
and business man. His eulogist, Past Grand Master Lodge, paid high tri-
bute to his character and personality. The tribute of Past Grand Master
McGrath to the memory of Brother Clark was of a high order, painting
in epigrammatic eloquence a most lovable character.

The grand master appointed Past Grand Master Lou B. Winsor, of
Reed City, to the vacancy caused by the death of Brother Conover.

In considering questions submitted the grand master found few that
were not covered by their Blue Book. Among the few was the following :

Question. A certain lodge desires to confer upon one of its members
who has never been elected or installed, or served as either warden or

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worshipful master, the honorary degree of past master. Would such ac-
tion be either legal or proper?

Answer. No. The conferring of this honorary degree is not one of
the powers delegated to constituent lodges. Most of us perhaps know that
in another branch of Masonry the rank of virtual past master exists, but
this rank belongs to, and is part of a certain degree. The degree was
founded and framed to exemplify a certain important truth, and every one
who receives this degree has the title of virtual past master. The question
of an honorary past master, however, is an entirely different matter. No
such office as honorary past master is recognized by our laws, regulations
or customs. The brother entitled to the rank of past master must have
been elected, installed and have served as worshipful master ; he must also
prior thereto have been elected and served as a warden of a lodge. What-
ever honor there is in the rank of past master is fully earned by its pos-
sessor if he has faithfully performed the duties of a worshipful master.
To confer the honor of past master on one who has not rendered these
services is to cheapen the office of worshipful master. Some other method
not contrary to the usages and customs of Masonry should be employed in
honoring deserving brothers.

This was approved, as it should have been. Notwithstanding some
grand lodges in this country have departed from the rule that there is no
brevet rank in Masonry, and have occasionally conferred the rank of past
grand master, we agree with the grand master that Masonic rank should
only be obtained by Masonic service. In the Grand Lodge of England and
its colonial district lodges, this sort of bouquet-throwing is sufficiently
common, but we recall no instance of its being done in the constituent
lodge. The grand master also decided, with grand lodge approval, that no
lodge can exempt members from the payment of dues on account of thirty
(or any given number of) years membership, which is probably true, and
more's the pity; that it is the birthright of Entered Apprentices and Fellow
Crafts to visit other lodges as well as their own while working on these
respective degrees, with which we fully agree although this and some
other birthrights are in some localities disregarded ; and that a lodge ob-
tains no personal jurisdiction by rejecting the petition of one not possess-
ing the necessary residence qualification. An attempt was made to so
amend the law as to enable a lodge on his request to remit the dues of one
who has reached the age of seventy and who has been twenty-five years a
Master Mason. The proposition went to the jurisprudence committee for
report, and seems to have lodged there.

The special committee who last year wrestled with the application of
the Grand Lodge Valle de Mexico for recognition, took another fall out of
the subject and then acknowledged that it was still a draw. The com-
mittee had planned a visit to Mexico with a view to first hand study of the
situation, but never found a time when all the members could all get away.
They, therefore, make a long-distance attempt to trace the history of Ma-
sonry in Mexico, and especially the history of the Grand Lodge Valle de
Mexico — that chameleon of the chaparral — with the result of leaving their

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minds in much the same condition as that of the American public over the
devious ways of the ante-belleum politician, who —

"Wired in and wired out,
Leaving the people still in doubt,
Whether the snake that made the track,
Was going south or coming back."

It is curious to note, however, in spite of all revelations of recent
years, that in all the information which comes to the Michigan committee
in its manifestly earnest attempt to get at the real situation in Mexico, the
Grand Lodge Valle de Mexico is always the innocent victim, the real mis-
chief is always the work of the "wicked partner."

The truth is that the Grand Lodge Valle de Mexico is the channel
through which women Masonry went into the gran dieta. Ermilio G.
Canton, the grand secretary of the gran dieta, was the grand master of
the Grand Lodge Valle de Mexico, in fact it is scarcely over-stating things
to say that he z^as the gran dieta and that he zvas the Grand Lodge Valle
de Mexico, and that if he was not practically also the grand orient which
in 1871 first chartered a woman's lodge in Mexico, he was a leading spirit
in it. It was the appearance of women as office bearers in the Grand Lodge
Valle de Mexico while the latter was the controlling factor in the gran
dieta that let the cat out of the bag so that the whole Masonic world could
see that Canton was doing something more than merely telling a falsehood,
he was telling a falsehood with intent to deceive, when he told what was
so eagerly repeated by the promoters of recognition in this country — that
the women lodges in Mexico were really only the equivalent of the Eastern
Star bodies in the United States. It is this guileless body that was trapped
into a meeting to be shocked by the presence of women, which pressure is
being brought upon the Michigan committee to recognize. This pressure,
the committee confesses comes in the interest of Americans in Mexico who
want to find a Masonic home in some organization that will be recognized
elsewhere. The desire of the committee to aid them is a laudable one if
they are among those who have kept the faith. We know that some Amer-
ican Masons, made such in lawful lodges in the United States, were so
solicitous about having a Masonic domicil in that country that they were
willing to be, or at least were consenting parties to the working of women
lodges there, and that some of the women of their households were offi-
cially associated with Mrs. (or Senora) Canton in such a lodge ; revela-
tion that accounted for some sudden changes of front on the question of
recognition in this country, which demonstrated that "blood is thicker than
water."

We share the solicitude of the Michigan committee for the American
Mason who finds himself without fraternal associations in a foreign land;
but we have no urgent pity for the 'most clamorous of them, those who

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would repudiate the obligations of genuine Masonry and disregard the land-
marks under which they accepted the Masonic status for business consid-
erations. For those who have been led astray from the faith by marriage
alliances there may be more excuse, and we should be glad to see than
healed and restored to the fold.

We know of no way in which this can be done in Mexico under any
other condition than that of treating it as it really is from a Masonic
standpoint, as open territory. The Michigan committee say that with their
present light they would be compelled to report unanimously against recog-
nition. Should they investigate the situation on the ground they are likely
to learn that which will more strongly confirm that view. We think they
could not do the craft greater service than to countenance, while there, a
movement to petition, by American or English-made Masons for whose
character they could vouch, for a dispensation from some grand lodge or
grand master in this country, that should establish a nucleus of known law-
ful Masonry in Mexico. The committee have — on account of a change of
date of meeting of their grand lodge — sixteen months in which to consider
the matter.

The grand lodge\ chartered one new lodge and continued two under
dispensation ; changed its time of meeting from January to May ; dis-
charged the special committee appointed to revise the German work, they
having completed the labor of harmonizing it with the English, and ordered
the preparation of six copies, a number so limited as to indicate that no
provision had been made for loss such as has sometimes afflicted the juris-
diction ; failed to give a proposition to permit lodges to charge an affilia-
tion fee, the requisite second of fifty lodges to secure its further considera-
tion ; learned from the superintendent of the Masonic Home that the per
capita cost of maintenance of the inmates had been $170.56, five cents more
than the year preceding ; provided for allowing the representatives of
lodges in the Upper Peninsula compensation for two extra days ; and in
lieu of the practice of setting apart memorial pages in the minute books of
lodges, provided that a part of the equipment of each lodge should be.

"A properly indexed record book, in which shall be preserved all mem-
orials of deceased grand officers and past grand officers, as well as of those
members of their own lodges to whose memory memorials may be adopted
by their lodges.

Fletcher E. Turrell, of Bellaire, was elected grand master; Lou B.
Winsor, Reed City, elected grand secretary.

The report on correspondence (231 pp.) is by Past Grand Master Lou
B. Winsor, its preparation being in Michigan one of the duties appertain-
ing to his office as grand secretary.

He gives us an interesting and appetizing hint of some personal charac-
teristics (as he himself sees them) in his conclusion:

152 APPENDIX — PART I.

We are satisfied that we have succeeded in eliminating the complimen-
tary allusions to a degree that will even satisfy Past Grand Master Lodge,
but it has been a hard struggle for us to do so, as we do enjoy repeating the
nice things said of us, and of attempting to pay something back on account
along the same line.

As you have observed, the scissors have been used by us much more
extensively than the pen. We have adopted this course in the endeavor to
establish our modesty among the brother correspondents of the round table
in our sister grand jurisdictions. Of course, it is too well established in
Michigan to require any further evidence.

He makes a very interesting report, and if he will only induce his
printer to "lead" only his own text, setting up extracted matter "solid," he
will have removed the one fly in the pot of ointment and all the brethren
of the guild will rise up and call him blessed.

That he selects with taste and discrimination is evidenced by the fact
that in the thirteen pages he gives to Illinois (1903), he reprints the ad-
dress of Bro. J. B. McFatrich, grand orator, delivered at the laying of
the corner-stone of the Illinois Masonic Home, and also his oration before
the grand lodge at the annual communication.

He quotes also from the address of Grand Master Moulton (a con-
siderable portion of which he epitomizes), and some paragraphs from our
review of Michigan in the Illinois report on correspondence.

MINNESOTA, 1904.

51ST Annual,. St. Paul. January 20.

A portrait of the retiring grand master (Henry Rice Adams,) a work
of art of unusual excellence, makes the frontispiece of the Minnesota
volume.

Ten past grand masters and the representatives of forty-two grand
jurisdictions were present, including, in both capacities the envoy from
Illinois, Alonzo T. Stebbins, of Rochester.

Grand Master Adams announced the death of two permanent mem-
bers of the grand lodge, Past Grand Master Royal Hatch Gove, aged 73,
and Past Deputy Grand Master William Tuttle Rigby, at 79.

Brother Gove was a native of Vermont, a teacher and lawyer, and
held several offices of trust in his home county. Brother Rigby was a na-
tive of New York, but had been a resident of Minnesota since 1856. He
served in the legislature and was a justice of the peace for twenty-five

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE. 153

years. He was a member of the grand lodge for forty years, serving on
many important committees.

The grand master was strongly impressed that the district deputy
grand masters had not received sufficient recognition, and urged that they
be put on the pay-roll. At the close of the session an amendment to this
end was in the hands of the jurisprudence committee for report next year.

He reported that a slight friction between lodges in the two jurisdic-
tions had led to a correspondence with Grand Master Stockwell, of North
Dakota, who rather suggested a re-opening of the subject of interjuris-
dictional reciprocity, whereby those living near state boundaries might ap-
ply to the nearest lodges without reference to these lines, to which North
Dakota had conditionally agreed some years since, but which Minnesota
had declined. Although the grand lodge had repeatedly concurred in ad-
verse reports of the law committee, on the subject, it was again consid-
ered and the grand lodge again sustained the committee, who report, that —

While recognizing and reciprocating the courtesy in the expressions
of the Grand Lodges of North Dakota and Iowa in assenting to and re-
questing such waiver, your committee are of the opinion that compliance
therewith would result in the impairment and infringement of the lawful,
if not the constitutional, limits of this grand lodge, as well as of the indi-
vidual lodges of this jurisdiction, and would result in confusion among the
border lodges. The American rule of territorial jurisdiction, sanctioned
by the constitutions, laws and regulations of our several grand jurisdic-
tions, should be steadily and strictly observed and adhered to, in order to
preserve the unity and integrity of our institution in its peaceful and fra-
ternal relations with our sister jurisdictions. The wishes of our sister
grand lodges can be met, as )rour committee believe, by adhesion to the
rule ever existing, sanctioned by usage and law, namely, by individual pe-
titioners to their nearest lodges, applying through the worthy master to
the grand master of their respective jurisdictions for a dispensation to
apply to the nearest lodge in the neighboring jurisdiction, which is, we be-
lieve, invariably granted. Your committee therefore fraternally report that
such waiver by states is inadmissible and of doubtful constitutionality.

We agree with the conclusions of the committee, and moreover think
they have really brought something new to the discussion by suggesting
the doubtful constitutionality of waiver by states (grand lodges) of what
is in the nature of things a question between lodges as to the waiver of
rights confessed to reside in such lodges by every grand lodge constitu-
tion which recognizes the principle of territorial jurisdiction. Waiver by
lodges in favor of other lodges is, as stated by the committee, sanctioned
by long usage as well as law, but the impression conveyed by their lan-
guage that the method of applying for such waiver through the grand
masters of the jurisdictions is also a long established one, is erroneous. It
dates back but very few years. Moreover, it trenches upon their own
strong, previously stated position.

154 APPENDIX — PART I.

The grand master reported no decisions, and in this connection says
that fully a third of the letters received by the executive need never have
been written if the brothers had carefully examined the Masonic code. It
was not this, but the report of the committee on constitution appointed
the year previous to consider a revision of the constitution, which pre-
cipitated a lively discussion as to the status of the code, if it had any,
under which the grand lodge had been living. The committee found that
a previous committee, appointed in 1900, reported a pretty general revision
the next year, and there seems to have been a general understanding that
the jurisdiction was living under it, but the committee of 1903 says:

No definite action has ever been taken by the grand lodge upon this
report, except in referring it to a committee, which lias never reported.
The result is that the constitution, including general regulations so pre-
pared by such committee, and published in the "Masonic Code of Minne-
sota," has never been, in any manner, legally acted upon by this grand
body, and cannot now be recognized as having any force or authority.

After running a lively parliamentary gauntlet, a way through the tan-
gle was found for the revision, the code was duly healed, and the body
again knew "where it was at."

The grand lodge had a field day over the subject of a Masonic home.
The committee appointed last year upon the heels of a report from a simi-
lar committee that not a single lodge had taken any official notice of a
circular of inquiry designed to test the feeling of the craft as to the estab-
lishment of a home, were backed this year by a circular from the grand
master requiring the master of each lodge to fix a date for a meeting to
especially consider the subject matter of a circular of inquiry sent out by
the committee, and requiring the brethren when met to consider and an-
swer every question therein propounded.

In a report covering thirteen printed pages of mostly solid matter, the
committee give the history, cost, cost of maintenance, etc., of such institu-
tions established elsewhere, and then the result of their inquiries of the
lodges, of which they say :

From the standpoint of interest, evidenced in the matter, the response
to our circular has been disappointing. There are 19,474 Masons in good
standing in Minnesota, in 239 lodges. One hundred and fifty-six of these
lodges with a membership of 14,431, have replied to it, and the attendance
when the vote was taken was 3,657. Fifty-eight of these lodges with a
membership of 4,921 and with 1,328 in attendance, vote that a home is
needed. Ninety-eight lodges with a membership of 9,519 and 2,329 in at-
tendance, when the vote was taken, vote in the negative.

These lodges report 108 cases relieved by them, at a total cost of
$5,044.65 during the past year. In many of the cases, it was evidently
(■from the amount expended,) temporary relief. An inspection of the re-
port indicates that probably not more than twenty-five cases are practic-
ally a permanent care to the lodges.

Of 131 lodges voting upon the question, 109 favor a home for Masons,
their wives, widows and orphans ; eleven for widows and orphans only
and eleven for Masons only.

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Of the 140 lodges voting upon the question of debt, 126 vote in the
negative.

When it comes to the question of raising the means to start such home,
there is much hesitancy to advise, as well as considerable diversity ; thirty-
nine lodges favoring a per capita tax, for the purpose; thirty-six would
raise it by subscriptions and donations ; nine would use surplus grand
lodge funds; one would borrow the money, and one levy a tax of $1 for
every degree conferred hereafter. The balance make no answer.

A still fewer number advise how a home is to be maintained, if estab-
lished ; sixty-eight lodges favoring a per capita tax ; twenty-seven would
rely on donations ; three upon the surplus funds of the grand lodge ; one
upon the income from an endowment fund not yet raised, and one would
require the lodges, sending inmates to the home, to pay the whole expense
of maintenance.

No lodge reports any liberally disposed person, willing to contribute
to any material extent towards a home.

The statement that "of the 139 lodges voting upon the question, 109
favor a home for Masons, their wives, widows and orphans, etc.," is
likely, in view of the figures which precede it, to be perplexing until it is
understood that the question then being voted on was, "If a home is es-
tablished, should it be for the care of Masons only, or should it also care
for their wives, widows and orphan children ?"

Notwithstanding the general "frost" which the proposition for a home
encountered, and the manifest fact freely conceded by them that with the
limited number of probable permanent beneficiaries the cost of maintaining
them in a home would be much greater than if cared for in their own
homes, the committee foreshadow the purpose of those who favor a home
to bring the matter up every year until they wear the grand lodge out ; and
they make several alternative recommendations each of them designed to
commit the grand lodge in some way to the home-building policy, the first
of these being that that body should now express itself in favor of the es-
tablishment of such a home as quickly as sufficient funds can be accumu-
lated. The minutes show how the subject was threshed out:

The special order, the Masonic home question, was now taken up, and
a lengthy discussion ensued. Bro. A. G. Pinkham (33) moved that the
first alternative recommendation of the committee be adopted. Bro. Chas.
L. West (39) opposed the motion and moved that the whole matter be
indefinitely postponed. Bro. G. S. Ives (54) advocated the consideration
and adoption of his resolutions- of yesterday. Bro. F. A. Duxbury (20)
favored a full discussion of the question, but was opposed to a spectacular
kind of charity. Bro. H. R. Wells (36) opposed committing the grand
lodge to the establishment of a Masonic home. The populous portions of
the state would derive the benefit, to the exclusion of the less populous dis-
tricts. Bro. H. R. Denny (in) spoke against having a home, now or
ever. Bro. J. D. Markham ( 164) opposed the commitment of the grand
lodge to the home proposition at this time. Remarks were also made by
Bro. W. P. Roberts and others. The question was then put on the motion

156 APPENDIX— PART I.

of Bro. C. L. West to indefinitely postpone, which was carried by a de-
cided majority.

The grand lodge chartered three new lodges ; listened to an address
of more than usual interest and felicity of style by John C. Bennett, grand
orator; recognized the Grand Lodge of Western Australia; and in the
evening of the first day witnessed in the main hall an exemplification of
the work of the third degree by Minneapolis Lodge No. 19, who, with a
full corps of officers and their usual equipment of paraphernalia, stere-
opticon views, etc., drew a large house notwithstanding the counter attrac-
tion of the annual. meeting and feast of the Masonic Veteran Association,
at the same time, in other parts of the building.

William A. McGonagle, of Duluth, was elected grand master;
Thomas Montgomery, St. Paul, re-elected grand secretary.

The report on correspondence is again by Bro. Irving Todd, who this
year takes the bits in his teeth and rounds out a full one hundred pages.
That there is method in his recklessness is shown by the fact that the ex-
pansion of his report means no loss in quality. He epitomizes with his
usual success the proceedings of our grand lodge for 1903, and copies from
the Illinois report on correspondence some paragraphs of interest to Min-
nesota Masons. Of our comment on a Minnesota decision he says :

Brother Robbins is hardly correct as to his guess upon our fourth
decision ; evidently he did not attend school in Connecticut, where guess-
ing is reduced to a science, as the writer knows from personal experience.
The petition contains a statement of certain facts, over the signature of the
applicant, and should be preserved as stated by the grand master. Whether
the committee recommended his election or rejection has nothing to do
with it whatever.

Since he has discovered the lack in our early education we may as
well confess that he still has us guessing — and on the same old score. Just
because the character of the paper suggests its preservation — as is the prac-
tice everywhere, so far as we know — is why we are still wondering what
put it into the head of the brother to ask if it should be burned.

The following was written in advance of the session of his grand
lodge we have had under review :

The conservative element of the craft believe that the Minnesota plan
of dispensing relief is the most satisfactory that could be adopted in this
jurisdiction, at a mere fraction of the cost of erecting and maintaining a
home.

And the report of the promoters of the home-building project affords
abundant evidence of the correctness of that belief.

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE. 157

MISSISSIPPI, 1904.

86th Annual. Greenville. February 18.

This volume contains portraits of the retiring grand master, Emmet N.
Thomas, and of two past grand masters whose passing it was his sad duty
to announce — John L. Spinks, "the most skilled workman of them all,"
and John Ril^y, "lovable, gentle, good and true." The latter had reached
his seventy-fifth year, while Brother Spink's untimely end came at fifty-six.

During the proceedings of the first session, intelligence was received of
the sudden death on the cars while en route from Jackson to his home in
Aberdeen, of Past Deputy Grand Master William B. Walker. Appro-
priate notice was taken of the sad event and a telegram of sympathy and
condolence sent to his bereaved wife. The serious illness of Past Grand
Master Andrew H. Barkley at his home in Crawford, was announced,
and he was wired of the prayers of the grand lodge for his recovery.

Eleven past grand masters were present, and twenty- four jurisdictions
were represented, Illinois most amply by Past Grand Master Frederic
Speed, the grand secretary.

Grand Master Thomas briefly considered the district deputy grand
master system, which had not realized the expectations of its advocates,
finding the reason in the limited number of districts, whereby more lodges
were assigned to each deputy than he could care for ; but the special com-
mittee having the matter under consideration go deeper. Taking the view
that the two principal objects aimed at when the system was adopted, were,
first, that the adopted work should be taught to the lodges, and second, that
the lodges should be instructed by an officer coming with the authority of
the grand lodge to correct irregularities and give instruction in the details
of administration, they say:

There is an inherent defect in the system which has defeated its pur-
pose, which to be plainly stated, is simply a matter of dollars and cents.
The district deputies are required to visit, only such lodges as shall com-
pensate them for their services and an examination of the reports of the
district deputies, for a number of years past, evidences the fact, that only
about one fourth of the lodges have been visited and that those lodges are
the ones, which were in the least need of instruction. Unfortunately there
are but a small number of brethren, who can afford to give their time and
services without compensation and it is equally unfortunate, that some of
the lodges either cannot afford to compensate the district deputies or at
least, think they cannot, with the result that they do not extend an invitation
and it is a well known fact, that there are quite a number of lodges, whose
oldest member cannot recollect the time when it called in the services of a
district deputy. But few would pretend that they do not need his services
and it is believed in most instances, lodges would gladly avail themselves

158 APPENDIX — PART I.

of them, if they thought their financial condition was such as to admit of
their calling upon him.

Theoretically, the committee say the method adopted for the propaga-
tion of an unvarying work seen perfect : A board of custodians to preserve
the work unchanged ; a grand lecturer to receive it from them and to im-
part it to the district deputies, who should progagate it in the lodges as-
signed to their care. The grand lecturer is also to disseminate the work to
the lodges, the design being that for this he is to be paid by the grand
lodge, but practically his compensation amounts to nothing. The com-
mittee think that if the district deputies could be adequately paid by the
grand lodge the system would be as good as any that could be devised ;
but to do this would bankrupt the grand lodge. If they are not paid they
will not visit the lodges. In this dilemma the grand lodge adopted the
following resolutions reported by the committee, as promising the greatest
available good:

Resolved, That the grand lecturer be paid a salary of one hundred dol-
lars a month and expenses by the grand lodge.

Resolved, That the grand lecturer shall visit and instruct such lodges
as may be designated by the grand master.

A lodge having (in a lawful manner) changed its hour of meeting
from day time to night, the presumably disgruntled master took the char-
ter from the lodge and refused to return it to them or to meet with them.
The lodge continued to hold meetings, elect candidates and confer degrees
regardless of the absence of the parchment. The grand master ordered
the master to return the charter and referred the questions involved to the
law committee, who thus report :

It is not contemplated, nor does the grand lodge give countenance to
such a construction of the law, as that the master of a lodge is to keep its
charter in his immediate possession, but rather that the same should be left
in the lodge-room under his immediate control, providing the lodge-room
is secure, in order, should the master not be able to attend in person, that
the wardens could open the lodge for the transaction of business. (Ques-
tion 4, page 68, 1899.) Masons must congregate in lodges regularly con-
stituted. (Sec. 6, Landmarks.) A lodge is a sufficient number of Masons,
duly assembled, with the Holy Bible, square and compass, and the charter,
or warrant, empowering them to work. (Page 19, Text Book 1903.) "A
lodge cannot be opened legally in the absence of its charter, and business
transacted, and a meeting at which the charter is not present is void."

Of course, so far as Mississippi is concerned, the plain prescription
of the Text Book (their authorized digest) is conclusive. But the com-
mittee cite the landmarks that Masons must congregate in lodges regularly
constituted, and that such a lodge is a sufficient number of Masons duly
assembled, with the Holy Bible, square and compass, and charter or war-
rant, empowering to work, as showing, we presume, the steps by which
had been constructed the "logical one-hoss shay" of the Text Book, whose
"every part was strong as the rest."

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The correlation of the charter with other elements does not prove
anything in this connection, because as all usage attests, there has never
been any ritualistic prescription for its display, as for some of them. The
lodge in the case in question possessed a charter just as truly what time it
was at the master's residence. A portion of the evidence that the lodge had
been chartered was temporarily missing, but not the best portion of the
evidence. That was to be found in the records of the grand lodge, and also
the evidence that the lodge had been duly constituted under that grant.
Grand lodges have a right, of course, to make any regulation they choose
as to the place of deposit of the parchment, but that is not conclusive either
way as to what is law. We thoroughly believe in the correctness of the
numerous Illinois precedents holding that neither the business nor the work
of a lodge whose charter remains unrevoked and unsuspended, convened
under the provisions of its own laws, is invalidated by the absence of the
parchment conveniently called its charter. And we may add that is the
growing view of the matter. The lamented Drummond — than whom there
was no single higher authority — who had more than once questioned the
correctness of our view, conceded its correctness before his death.

We find that we have an impression — never attempted to be verified
by specific study, and indeed never shaping itself with sufficient definite-
ness to get itself stated before — that in those of our jurisdictions where the
influence and traditions of the "Ancients" (schismatics) were strongest,
the supposed potency of the parchment "charter" is most strongly held and
advocated. We wish somebody with more leisure at their command than
we have, would look the matter up.

Last year the grand lodge directed Waterford Lodge to place a brother
on trial for an offence against the grand lodge, the charges being prefer-
red by the chairman of the committee on complaints and appeals and sent
to the master of the lodge with instructions to proceed under the discip-
linary code. After several vain efforts by the master to get a quorum, by
direction of the grand master each member was summoned, but with the
same result. The grand master promptly and properly arrested the charter
and referred the matter to the committee on complaints and appeals. Upon
their recommendation the lodge was wiped out, certificates of good standing
given to certain named brethren who had been ready at all times to obey
the law, and the charges were forwarded to Holly Springs Lodge No. 35 for
trial. The brethren who destroyed their own lodge in an effort to prevent
the accused being put on trial are likely to see their schemes come to
naught.

The catalogue of questions answered by the law committee is shorter
than usual. We reproduce some of general interest :

1. An applicant for initiation supposedly residing equi-distant between
Lodges A, and B., was elected to and was entered, passed and raised in

1G0 APPENDIX — PART I.

Lodges A., the members of Lodge B., being fully cognizant of the fact,
as the candidate was lectured in the several degrees by the master of Lodge
B. After the degree had all been conferred, Lodge B., sets up a claim to the
brother, and the fact develops that he really was in the jurisdiction of said
lodge. What lodge has jurisdiction over the brother.

The brother is a member of Lodge A.; by the fact that the contending
lodge knew of the proceedings and remained quiescent, it lost its right to
complain.

3. A member, in open lodge, acknowledges he runs a store in Louis-
iana, in his wife's name, in which liquor is sold for a consideration, but
no action is taken by the lodge. Does it not lay itself open to arrest of
charter for failure to discipline the member.

Yes.

5. Where there are several petitions for initiation, or applications for
advancement, to be balloted on at. the same stated communication, can one
ballot be spread' for all candidates for the same degree.

Each petition or application must be balloted on separately.

8. A lodge conferred the Entered Apprentice degree on one who could
not walk without the aid of a crutch, his left leg and foot being left in a
paralyzed condition from an attack of white swelling. Was the action of
the lodge legal? If not, what is his status?

The physical condition of the applicant when he petitioned being of
such character as to prevent him from comforming to all the requisites of
the ritual and ceremonies of the several degrees, the action of the lodge
in entertaining his petition and conferring upon him the degree of Entered
Apprentice, was a violation of the law, and the candidate is stopped from
advancement, until such time as his physical disabilities are removed, when
his application may be properly considered.

10. Can a lodge receive petitions for initiation from candidates resid-
ing within the jurisdiction of a neighboring lodge after said lodge had
waived jurisdiction. Also of those of doubtful domicile, as railroad men.

(a) A lodge cannot waive jurisdiction over an applicant in favor of a
neighboring lodge. Application must be made to the lodge in whose juris-
diction candidates reside, regardless of their occupation.

(b) A candidate for initiation must have resided within the jurisdic-
tion of a lodge, to which he petitions, twelve months prior to the time of
making said application. This is a question of fact, as to which it is the
duty of the lodge to inquire and determine. There is no special provision
made in our laws for railroad men or the clergy, whose duties are such as
to prevent any lodge from acquiring jurisdiction.

Referring to No. 1. — So say we, all of us. No. 3 is given for informa-
tion. The answer to No. 5 should go without saying, but the occasional
cropping out of the question which evoked it, indicates that the whole-
saleing practice prevails to a limited extent; had there never been any so-
called Masonic body but the lodge of Free and Accepted Masons we ques-
tion if it ever would have been heard of. That portion of the answer to
No. 8 which holds that the action of the lodge in entertaining the petition

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of the applicant and conferring upon him the degree of Entered Apprentice
was a violation of the law is doubtless correct, but we hold that his being
made a Mason (as the committee properly agrees that he was), forecloses
the whole question of physical fitness as related to any of the degrees. No.
10 reminds us of the fact that Mississippi is one of the few states in which
waiver of territorial jurisdiction is not permitted. We agree with the re-
mainder (b) of the answer; but if the decision of some of the courts, re-
ferred to elsewhere in this report (but just where we cannot now state,
as our index is yet unmade), that this class of citizens may acquire a fixed
domicil in the eye of the law by a public declaration of intention and the
proper lapse of time thereafter, should be generally recognized, this dis-
ability will be susceptible of removal.

The grand lodge chartered seven new lodges, continued one under
dispensation, and granted dispensations to four more; emasculated their
"ten-mile rule," which like ours forbids the establishment of a new
lodge within ten miles of one already existing, by adding a proviso making
the grand master and the grand lodge judges as to where it shall be dis-
regarded ; appropriated $500 to the Masonic Widows and Orphans' Home
fund, and continued for the ensuing year the per capita assessments of
twenty-five cents for the endowment fund of that projected institution,
eight cents for the relief fund and two cents for the charity fund; voted
unanimously to meet next year at Jackson ; recognized the Grand Lodge
of Western Australia ; approved the action of the grand master (to whom
it had been reserved to discover that although the Grand Lodge of Miss-
issippi had existed for eighty-six years, it had never entered into fraternal
relations with the transatlantic grand lodges from whom it is descended)
in arranging for an exchange of representatives with the grand lodges of
England and Scotland ; and excused and continued the exequatur of Bro.
Joel A. Hearn, the grand representative of the Grand Lodge of Florida,
who was prevented from attending by the infirmities of age.

Thomas Upton Sisson, of Winona, was elected grand master; Fred-
eric Speed, Vicksburg, re-elected grand secretary.

The report on correspondence (89 pp.) is from the accustomed hand
of Past Grand Master Andrew H. Barkxey, whose re-appointment to the
committee we hail as reflecting the confident hope of the grand master that
the distinguished reviewer would promptly recover from the illness which
prevented his attendance on the grand lodge.

Brother Barkley's report embraces a very courteous and fraternal re-
view of the Illinois proceedings for the year 1903, making extended quota-
tions from the address of Grand Master Moulton and the oration of Grand
Orator McFatrich.

162 APPENDIX — PART I.

MISSOURI, 1903.

83D Annual. St. Louis. October 20.

The Missouri volume contains a portrait of Grand Master John C.
Yocum, who died in office April 26, 1903, and a representation of the
"Washington Gavel," used hy Acting Grand Master Kuhn in laying the
corner-stone of the Missouri state building at the World's Fair grounds.

Eighteen past grand masters and the representatives of thirty-four
grand jurisdictions were present. The Illinois envoy was absent. Grand
Master Bestor G. Brown, of Kansas, was formally received as a visitor.

The address of the acting grand master, Wm. F. Kuhn, opens with
the announcement of the death of Grand Master Yocum, who had just
turned his forty-ninth year, and whom he thus characterizes :

Brother Yocum was an attorney-at-law, and had successfully followed
his profession all the days of his active life ; a man with the culture of the
schools, the refinement and bearing of an ideal gentleman and the integrity
of a true Mason.

The expressed desire and the effort of Grand Master Yocum to con-
duct the business of the grand lodge from Arizona, whither he went in the
vain hope of regaining his health, was productive of endless worry and
confusion, resulting in a clamor for the assumption of the duties of the
office by the deputy grand master, which placed the latter in a most delicate
and perplexing position and raised a grave question as to the construction
of the law providing for the succession of the deputy. On December 9, the
grand secretary wrote the deputy grand master as follows :

The time has come when other action must be taken. Brother Yocum
is not grand master when beyond the limits of the state of Missouri. You
are the acting grand master. As such I can respect no other authority,
hence I shall forward all matters of official direction to you. Then it will
be up to you as to what course to pursue.

Brother Kuhn at once placed the facts before Past Grand Master
Williams, chairman of the committee on jurisprudence, for an opinion,
who replied as follows :

Your inquiry of the 19 inst, concerning your duty to assume the func-
tions and prerogatives of grand master is based upon the fact that the
grand master is temporarily sojourning in Arizona, but his residence is
still in Kansas City, and his family is there ; he has not requested to be
relieved and the question to be decided is whether under these circum-
stances the deputy grand master can, of his own motion and should as a
matter of law, take charge of the office and discharge its duties.

I must answer this is in the negative. "Removal from the jurisdiction,"
as used in section 10, article II, of the by-laws of the grand lodge, can not

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mean a mere temporary absence on a visit for health or pleasure. It refers
to a change of residence. It will not be contended that the act of M. W.
Bro. Yocum in going to Arizona constitutes a removal from Kansas City,
neither is it a removal from the jurisdiction within the intent of the by-
laws. If absence from the state is meant by section 10 great confusion
would result. How far would the grand master have to go and how long
would he have to remain away to justify the deputy in assuming to act in
his stead? Such a construction would change the official head of the
grand lodge each time the grand master should pass acros the line into a
neighboring state. I can not think any such meaning should be given to
the law. A distinction is made between "absence from the state" and "re-
moval from jurisdiction." Mere absence from the state authorizes the
deputy grand master with grand wardens to call special meetings of the
grand lodge; section 2, article IV, while removal from the jurisdiction is
essential to give into the hands of the deputy grand master the authority
devolved by the craft upon the grand master, under section 10, of ar-
ticle II. * * *

In view of the importance of the subject the acting grand master
asked that this opinion might be reviewed and reported upon by the com-
mittee on jurisprudence. It was so referred, and report of the committee
that it was a correct construction of the law was concurred in.

The deputy grand master did not assume the duties of the executive
office until March 16, when, after two weeks of immediate and continuing
total disability of the grand master following his return from Arizona, the
advisers of the deputy unanimously agreed that such assumption was im-
perative.

The acting grand master reproduces a circular letter he had sent to
the lodges, requiring the abandonment of the practice of sending notices
containing the names of candidates through the mails open, or unsealed;
requiring that the occupations of petitioners be so specifically given that a
rooming house with a saloon attached may not masquerade as a "hotel,"
or a whisky-seller as a "merchant" (the necessity for which arises from
legislation making eligibility for the degrees hinge on a definition instead
of on what a man is) ; properly characterizing the evil of smoking in the
lodges during the conferring of degrees as a nuisance and a menace, and
asking that it be discontinued. It is gratifying, but not surprising to learn
that this request met with immediate favorable response. There must be
few Masons who will not agree to the reasonableness of the following :

The masters of lodges should feel it incumbent upon them to preserve
that dignity, proper decorum and respect for our impressive ceremonies,
and the courtesies due the candidate, that nothing may harm or detract
from the solemnity of the occasion.

The courtesies due the candidate are due also to the members who do
not smoke and do not enjoy a smoky atmosphere, and these considerations
should be pressed if it becomes necessary to appeal to them. But usually
it is sufficient to remind brethren of what is due to dignity and decorum.

164 APPENDIX — PART I.

In our own lodge where the habit of lighting cigars whenever the lodge
was momentarily at ease, and occasionally during the transaction of busi-
ness, had recently crept in (although we do not remember to have seen it
during the work), it was only necessary to remind the brethren of the
lowering the dignity of the lodge by the practice to secure the prompt and
unanimous adoption of a resolution forbidding smoking in the lodge room
during the meeting hours regardless of whether the lodge was at labor or
refreshment.

The granting of fifteen dispensations to lodges to move into new or
temporary halls indicates that such special authorization is necesary under
the Missouri regulations ; it is not in Illinois.

He had been constrained by a previous decision to refuse to lay the
corner-stone of a church on Sunday, and also to refuse dispensations to
two lodges to attend church services as lodges on Sunday evening, but
against his will and he recommends a modification of the law. The grand
lodge, however, was with the committee on jurisprudence in saying:

Grand lodge law being strictly prohibitive and the Mosaic law impera-
tive, we commend the acting grand master for his inflexible adherence and
refusal to permit lodge meetings on the first day of the week, commonly
called Sunday.

Inasmuch as the Mosaic law refers to the seventh day of the week
instead of the first, the reference of the committee to it in this connection,
illustrates the fact that decisions are sometimes right while the assigned
reasons for them are something more than superfluous. The absolutely
prohibitive character of the grand lodge law was sufficient to settle the
correctness of the grand master's action. We would not modify it. We
regard it as wise and salutary not only because it saves the fraternity
from the possible suspicion of parade for advertising purposes which nat-
urally attaches to ostentatious church-going, but because we regard the
Masonic guarantee of freedom in matters of religious conformity as being
so absolute that no brother ought to be subjected to even so much duress
as might attach to a majority vote to attend church in a body, where or
when he does not wish to go.

The six decisions reported by the acting grand master are very clear
statements of generally correct law. Among them are the following:

i. Must a Master Mason who has been suspended from this lodge for
unmasonic conduct for a period of six months petition the lodge for res-
toration to membership ?

No. He is restored to membership in the lodge at the expiration of
the sentence. No action is necessary by the lodge or himself. The secre-
tary should enter his name on the roster of the membership of the lodge.

2. Can an objection be made to the advancement of an E. A., and how?

Objection to advancement on any other ground than non-proficiency

must be made in open lodge or in writing, and become a part of the rec-

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ords. Such objections can be made only for the purpose of investigation
or the preferring of charges, and hold only for sixty days.

3. Can a man who has lost his right arm be made a Mason under our
law ?

No. He cannot receive, nor communicate a portion of the ceremonies.
Artificial appliances cannot remedy the defect.

4. A brother was elected master of our lodge and installed. Soon
after his installation he removed from the state. Shall we return him as
a past master of our lodge in the annual report to the grand lodge?

No. It has always been held that three qualifications were necessary
to attain the rank of past master. Election, installation and serving as
master for twelve months. By his removal from the grand jurisdiction, he
has vacated the office and has surrendered the third essential service.
Mackey holds that a "past master is one who has presided for twelve
months over a lodge."

5. — (a) If a summons from Missouri Lodge No. 1, served by a mem-
ber of Missouri Lodge No. 1, on a member of Beacon Lodge No. 3, to be
present and give testimony in a case on trial in Missouri Lodge No. 1, and
he refuses to obey such summons, would it hold him liable under section 81
of the grand lodge by-laws ?

(b) Should such summons be ordered by the master of Beacon Lodge
on the request of Missouri Lodge to hold witness liable under section 81?

Subdivision (a) is dependent on subdivision (b). Every Master
Mason has promised to obey a summons coming in a constitutional man-
ner ; not necessarily from my lodge but from a lodge. I hold that every
Mason is bound to obey a summons coming to him from a regular lodge,
whether it be from his own lodge or not, but as a matter of courtesy, the
summons should come from Beacon Lodge at the request of Missouri
Lodge. The committee on appeals and grievances in 1875 held that the
lodge to which the member belonged had a primary right, the other lodge
had a secondary right. Hence, Misouri Lodge has only a secondary juris-
diction over the member.

I therefore ordered that Missouri Lodge request Beacon Lodge to
issue such summons. Should Beacon Lodge refuse or neglect to do so, the
secondary jurisdiction of Missouri Lodge becomes a primary one, and has
full power to enforce its rights and issue the summons direct.

Number 1 is copied because one marvels that anyone should ask
a question which so plainly answered itself, and No. 3 as showing that in
view of the "Missouri cripple law," one needn't wonder at any question.
No. 2 is for information only. No. 4 properly failed of approval in part,
the law committee saying : <

In regard to decision No. 4, we disagree with that part of decision of
the grand rhaster, that service of twelve months is necessary to entitle a
brother to the rank of past master. We hold that when a brother has been
elected and installed as worshipful master, that at the conclusion of the
term for which he was elected he is entitled to the rank of past master,
even though his service as such may have been terminated by death, re-
moval from the jurisdiction or other honorable course.

166 APPENDIX— PART I.

Another incidental statement of the decision, i. c, that "by his re-
moval from the grand jurisdiction he has vacated the office," would not
be true in Illinois. He could return on the day the grand lodge met and
find his rights on its floor unimpaired.

"Of the self-confessed, convicted and sentenced boodlers in the crim-
inal courts of St. Louis, six of the thirty-two, to our sorrow and shame,
were Masons," says the acting grand master. Through his efforts in two
cases and in two others by the voluntarily preferred charges of lodges these
criminals were awaiting Masonic trials, and one other case was being held
under advisement until sufficient evidence should be obtained. The pur-
gation will be complete.

Singularly the grand master could not find that the grand lodges of
South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and New Zealand had ever
been recognized by Missouri. Listed with them was the Grand Lodge of
Western Australia, whose non-recognition need occasion no surprise, be-
cause it is only during the present year that the evidence has been forth-
coming that it has the allegiance — and had at its formation — of a
majority of all the lodges in the colony, for which evidence many Ameri-
can grand lodges have been waiting. He also presented the claims of
Cuba mildly, and those of the Grand Lodge Valle de Mexico were
vigorously presented. His own advocacy of the Mexican body is supple-
mented by strong letters from Past Grand Master Finagin (Missouri)
now a resident of Mexico, which he made a part of his address. The whole
subject was at his instance referred to a committee of five past grand
masters, appointed by him (of which number Past Grand Master Finagin
was one, and Past Grand Master Vincil, who as committee on foreign
correspondence for twenty-six years is necessarily the one man in Mis-
souri best informed as to the history of Masonry in Mexico, and most
familiar with the interdependent scandals of the gran dieta and its alter
ego, the Grand Lodge Valle de Mexico, was not.)

On their recommendation the six English-speaking grand lodges and
the Grand Lodge of Cuba were recognized for the one assigned reason
that many other grand lodges had done so. When, however, they come up
against the Mexican body they confess to having struck something "of
vital importance to this grand jurisdiction," and thus exploit the com-
mercial aspect of the question :

We feel that every member of this grand lodge, not only from a Ma-
sonic standpoint, but as well on account of the business and social rela-
tions which have heretofore existed between the republic of Mexico and
the United States, and especially the commercial intercourse which exists
at the present time between the great cities of Missouri and the republic
of Mexico, that we are glad as Masons to establish fraternal relationship
with the Grand Lodge "Valle de Mexico."

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We are further advised that it neither claims nor recognizes any fra-
ternal relations with the Grand Orient of Belgium at Brussels, and the
Grand Orient of France. We, therefore, recommend that this grand lodge
recognize and establish fraternal relations with the Grand Lodge Valle
de Mexico : Provided, its grand master file in the office of our grand sec-
retary a statement in writing, attested by its grand secretary, under seal,
that it holds no fraternal relations with the Grand Orient of Belgium at
Brussels, or the Grand Orient of France, or any other kindred or fra-
ternal Masonic organization which refuses to recognize the existence of
the one living and true God.

The italics are ours. The language they emphasize is so significant
that probably we are taking no hazard in suggesting that in almost any
other year Missouri could have waited for information so definite as to
have precluded the necessity of according recognition with a string to it;
but not this year — not the World's Fair year.

The grand lodge chartered four new lodges ; killed a pending amend-
ment to the by-laws permitting dual membership; directed that the entire
committee on appeals and grievances (instead of the chairman only) be ap-
pointed prior to the meeting of the grand lodge and inaugurated the long
established Illinois custom of calling the committee together in advance, and
ordered that their report be skeletonized something on the Illinois plan of
recent years; thoughtfully passed the hat and collected $117 for the use of
the children and old people of the Masonic home during the World's Fair;
supplemented its action in expelling (on appeal) an offender who had been
acquitted by his lodge, by arresting the charter of the unfaithful lodge;
wisely increased its allowance for the grand master's expenses to $1,000
for the ensuing year, and changed the date of its annual meeting to the last
Tuesday in September.

William F. Kuhn, of Kansas City, was elected grand master; John
D. Vincil, St. Louis, re-elected grand secretary.

The report on correspondence (176 pp.) is the ripened work, the
twenty-sixth review, of Past Grand Master John D. Vincil, the grand
secretary.

Brother Vincil's method is a running combination of fact and com-
mentary, all in his own text, very instructive and interesting, but not easily
quotable. Over five pages are given to our proceedings of 1902.

One of the portraits in the volume arrested his attention, and he says :

I find in the proceedings a striking picture of one of the venerable
men of that jurisdiction, whom I had the pleasure of meeting in other
years, M. W. Bro. Wra. Lavely, P. G. M. He was elected grand master in
1847. Speaking of him to a distinguished citizen and scientist in the Mis-
souri State University, years ago, I was asked the question if I knew
Brother Lavely; on replying in the affirmative, he quietly remarked: "God
made that man." This remark was characteristic of Brother Lavely and
also if his admirer.

168 APPENDIX — PART I.

The address of Grand Master Moulton is epitomized in a manner to
indicate the reviewer's high appreciation of its ability. As they have a
Masonic home in Missouri he is of course delighted that the Grand Lodge
of Illinois has been committed to the institutional plan of relief. Referring
to the Illinois report on correspondence, Brother Vincil says :

M. \V. Bro. Bobbins holds views which meet my hearty approval with
regard to private examination of parties claiming to be Masons. He said
that an unofficial examination might be made as satisfactorily as would
one by an appointee of the master made for this purpose. In our exceeding
solicitude respecting compliance with legal standards, lodges of the present
day are not inclined to recognize a Mason as a visitor who has not been
examined by a committee appointed for the purpose by the master of the
lodge. While making no pretension to accuracy or an unusual familiarity
with ritualistic teaching, I claim to be as well qualified to conduct an ex-
amination in my private office as anyone else in an ante-room adjacent to
a Masonic hall. This I have often done, vouching for Masons who were
never questioned by a lodge committee.

A Missouri decision that a brother could not re-affiliate with a lodge
from which he had taken a dimit while residing in another state, we asked
why. He says :

I reply to the question by saying that there is a provision of law in
Missouri, to my mind of doubtful meaning, on which this decision is based.
I hold now, and I did in former years, when grand master of Masons in
this jurisdiction, that a Mason is a member of the great Masonic family,
and has the right, which should not be questioned, to seek affiliation with
that family at any place he might elect.

In our report for 1902 we noted the fact reported by the Missouri
committee on charity, of an increasing tendency to ask the grand lodge
for appropriations for charity for deserving parties (outside of the Ma-
sonic home,) as bearing upon a point to which in our discussions of the
relief question we had often invited attention — the inelasticity of the insti-
tutional plan which makes no provision for a large class of cases, which
does not require continuous help. We pointed out that unless that plan
was departed from — and that just to the extent that it was departed from
its inadequacy was confessed — these cases must go hungry a part of the
time. To this Brother Vincil replies :

Replying to his note on our Masonic home where he stated that the
home plan favors only a certain class of cases, I wish to say that the home
management is prepared to meet any and all cases demanding Masonic
charity. Those that we cannot induce to come to and enter the Masonic
home, thereby forfeit a proper recognition of their claims for relief. The
home is provided for all needy ones and we have taken care of them in the
most satisfactory way. When a claimant for Masonic relief absolutely
refuses, without any justification, to enter the Masonic home, such person
lias no cause for complaint at being overlooked by the benevolence of the
local fraternity.

Nothing that we had said puts the fact of the inelasticity of the insti-
tutional plan of Masonic relief more bluntly or convincingly than does

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Brother Vincil in his reply. It is an open confession that he can suggest
no other alternative to the applicant for aid than that he shall come to the
home and get it or go without.

It may not be justifiable to be found in the class of which we spoke, to
whom it is like the breaking of heart-strings to be torn away from that
environment which makes so large a part of what we call home. But there
are many so constituted — -and it is not to their discredit — and it is by no
means only those who need aid, but when the rainy day does come to
those so constituted it is the only thing left for them to give up, and makes
it all the harder to be torn up by the roots ; and so we repeat what he does
not attempt to gainsay, that be ever so humble the shack that has shel-
tered us, the surroundings and associations of happy and sorrowful days
that go with it always in our thoughts, give it a value that no luxury or
freedom from care can offset.

MONTANA, 1903.

39TH Annual. Helena. September 16.

The Montana volume contains fine chemi-lithogravure portraits of
Grand Master Frank E. Smith and President Theodore Roosevelt, and
by the same process a picture of the entrance arch of the Yellowstone Na-
tional Park, at Gardiner, Montana, the corner-stone of which President
Roosevelt assisted the grand master to lay on the 24th of April, 1903, driv-
ing down from Fort Yellowstone to meet the grand lodge for that purpose.
There is also a half-tone portrait of Hezekeah L. Hosmer, the first chief
justice of Montana, and for two years grand secretary — his service in the
southeast being contemporaneous with the executive service of Corneleus
Hedges and James R. Weston.

In the corner-stone above referred to, were deposited among other
things, pictures of Past Grand Masters N. P. Langford and Cornelius
Hedges, both members of the Washburn party of 1870. Brother Hedges
first suggested making a national park, and Brother Langford becan;e its
first superintendent.

Ten past grand masters and the representatives of twenty-nine juris-
dictions were present at the annual communication, Past Grand Master
Hedges' answering for Illinois.

Grand Master Smith announced the death of Past Grand Master
Charles H. Gould, aged sixty-six. A native of Indiana, subsequently a

170 APPENDIX — PART I.

resident in turn of Wisconsin, Nebraska and Montana, lie died at Lincoln,
Neb., bis final home. He served first in a Wisconsin, and later in an Ind-
iana regiment in the civil war. He was appointed receiver of the land
office at Miles City, Montana. He was elected junior grand warden in
1893 and grand master in 1896, serving meanwhile three years as grand
orator and winning as each a brilliant reputation. His memorial of his
boyhood chum, Past Grand Master Mortimer Nye, of Indiana, which we
transferred to our report last year, was to our mind the choicest thing we
found in the year's reviewing.

In the grand master's record of dispensations, we find the following :

On the 8th of June, I granted a dispensation to Acacia Lodge No. 33,
to attend divine service in a body, on Sunday, June 28. In looking over
the proceedings of previous grand communications I observe that this habit
is becoming chronic wth Acacia Lodge. But if a dispensation will get any
of the citizens of Anaconda to church it should certainly not be withheld.

The italics are ours. It looks as though the trail of the serpent is
over them all.

Among other decisions of the grand master was one to the effect that
the proper method of voting on the question of waiving jurisdiction ob-
tained by rejecting a petitioner is "by the uplifted right hand," which he
quotes from the code. Apparently for the purpose of justifying the code,
he continues :

The vote upon this question is in no sense a vote upon the question
of application for degrees or for affiliation. The question involved is only
that of whether or not the lodge desires to waive its jurisdiction to elect
or reject the applicant, in favor of the other lodge, and should have noth-
ing to do with the qualifications of the petitioner. If the waiver is granted
the question of the qualifications of the candidate is then properly to be
passed upon by the new lodge.

The almost universal requirement of a vote by secret ballot on the
question of waiver, shows that whatever may be the theory as to the con-
siderations entering into the vote, it is not generally believed to be possible
to separate from them the question of fitness. If on a petition for the
degrees a member casts a blackball because he knows of some act, or trait,
or lack that should exclude the applicant, and subsequently the question
of waiver comes before him, it is as inevitable as it is proper, that he should
use the knowledge on which excluded him before, to prevent his slipping
in by" going where he is not so well known.

We are glad to note that upon the question whether a person who
had lost his right thumb was eligible for the degrees, he endeavored to
impress upon the lodge the fact that an expression of opinion by him
could not relieve them from the responsibility of deciding for themselves
what was right under a law which was as binding upon him as it was
upon them.

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He decided that a lodge could not attend in a body the funeral cere-
monies of a Fellow Craft who was prevented by illness from taking the
third degree.

All his decisions were approved.

For a number of years our Montana brethren have been slowly accumu-
lating a fund for the establishment of a Masonic home, but the great ex-
pense both of building and maintenance had made it chiefly a matter of
hope for the future rather than a present fact. Suddenly a way has
been opened for them ; as was foreshadowed last year David Auchard, a
member of Helena Lodge No. 3, died, leaving the greater portion of his
estate to the grand lodge for the purpose of establishing a home, and
there was a probability that the settlement of the estate would be so ex-
pedited as to make the proceeds likely to reach nearly $100,000, available
during the current year. It was therefore determined that the grand mas-
ter should appoint a committee of five whose duty it shall be —

1. To formulate a plan upon which to conduct the administration of a
home.

2. With power to acquire a site for the building of a home.

3. With power to sell, lease, rent or otherwise dispose of the interest
bequeathed under the will of our late Brother David Auchard, subject,
however, to the approval of the officers of the grand charity fund.

The grand master strongly urged the office of grand lecturer be re-
created and made appointive by the grand master, and that the incumbent
be adequately paid for six months after which time the office should be un-
salaried, and his ideas prevailed. The arrangement is such as to make the
lecturer a deputy to do the bidding of the grand master, putting in his work
where his superior deems it most advantageous. One thousand dollars, or
as much thereof as may be necessary, was appropriated to carry out the
plan. A new edition of the monitor was provided for, from which, on
motion of the compiler, "the cope-stone and other unnecessary forms" will
be omitted.

The grand lodge concurred in the following from the law committee:

Your committee recommend that the resolution touching the ex-
pulsion of members of the fraternity who engage in wholesale or retail
liquor business be not adopted, there being a standing resolution of this
grand lodge, which in the opinion of the committee, goes as far as this
grand lodge should go on this subject.

Two new lodges were chartered ; Helena was fixed upon as the next
place of meeting, and in view of the desire of many of the most active
officers and members to attend the triennial conclave of the Knights Tem-
plar at San Francisco in September, 1904, changed the date of holding the
annual communication to the first Wednesday in October, for that year
only.

172 APPENDIX— PART T.

We judge that it was an unexpected pleasure when Past Grand Master
Wilbur F. Sanders quietly slipped into the grand lodge on the first day
of the session, after having been absent from the state for over a year un-
dergoing medical treatment. As soon as noticed the grand master called
him to the grand east where he received a hearty welcome. Brother San-
ders was one of the prime movers in the organization of the Grand Lodge
of Montana, and was its first grand secretary. He was a leader among
men and a tower of strength among the law and order men in the troublous
days which culminated in the vigilance committee which purged Montana
of the most dangerous of its lawless class, and cowed those who remained.

In the closing hour of the session, when business had been cleared
away there was a spontaneous clamor to hear him, to which he responded
with some delightful reminiscences of Masonry in Montana from its or-
ganization. The minutes of Grand Secretary Hedges, who was also one of
the organizers of the grand lodge, tell the rest :

He mentioned that it was forty years ago to the day since his first
arrival in the territory. He spoke of the three constituent lodges that
formed the grand lodge in January, 1866, of which he became the first
grand secretary and he told of making a trip across the continent to New
York City, of interviewing Horace Greeley at the Tribune office and stay-
ing around there for some time in order to get the early proceedings of
grand lodge printed.

Of the organization of grand lodge he told how there were but thirteen
present, four of whom were visitors, and recited how the resolution for the
organization was prepared by Past Grand Master Frary, at that time
master of Montana Lodge at Virginia City.

He pictured the brethren who took an interest in the planting of Ma-
sonry here and recalled especially Bro. Paris S. Pfouts, the master of Vir-
ginia City Lodge which is now No. 1, formerly No. 43 on the registry of
Kansas. This brother he thought had taken the most active interest in
the formation of the grand lodge.

At the conclusion of his remarks the grand master thanked Brother
Sanders on behalf of grand lodge.

H. S. Hepnur was elected grand master ; Cornelius Hedges re-elected
grand secretary, both of Helena.

The report on correspondence (136 pp.), is the twenty-third from the
deft hand of Past Grand Master Cornelius Hedges, just now elected
grand secretary for the thirty-second time, and who by the recent passing
of Bro. Jacob H. Medairy, of Maryland, becomes the oldest incumbent of
that office by continuous service now surviving.

We congratulate our brother that in his tussle with rheumatism the
glimpse we get of them this time puts him somewhat on top. In his conclu-
sion, he says :

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE. 173

The most of the foregoing report has been written since our return
from a two months' visit to our New England home and the fiftieth anni-
versary of our class graduation at Yale college.

Though the weather was cold and rainy much of the time and not
supposed to be favorable to rheumatism we lost much of ours by the way
and came back much improved and strengthened. Either from this cause
or reasons growing out of our recent survey of the Masonic field the out-
look for our cherished institution never appeared so bright as at present.

We are one of the rare exceptions'among Bro Hedges' friends, from
whom he has not heard of something that is "good for rheumatism," and
we are not going to break through our rule not to volunteer advice ; but
perhaps a hint of what, or who, he is dealing with may stimulate his cour-
age. A former professional partner of ours when convalescing from a
three month's seige with muscular rheumatism was bundled off to Los
Vegas, New Mexico, to recuperate, as soon as he got on his feet. On the
train speeding southwest he fell in with a very eminent physician from
Philadelphia, Dr. M., whom he had long known by reputation. After dis-
cussing rheumatism up one side and down the other, in all its protean,
erratic, whimsical manifestations, our friend asked abruptly: "Doctor,
what is rheumatism?" Dr. M. leaned closer and whispered confidentially
in his ear: "It's the devil."

That he was correct, receives some confirmation from Brother Hedges'
confession to Brother Kuykendall, of a suspicion that he had been bene-
fited by "absent treatment." Should he desire to experiment further along
that line, we can assure him of the fervent efforts any of us whom he thinks
might have any influence with the administration.

His notice of Illinois is of our proceedings for 1902. Some things
catch his eye that others overlook; witness the following:

Illinois has a list of 136 defunct lodges, which testifies of many reverses
of fortune and blighted hopes in its career of 63 years. The oldest lodge
in Chicago is No. 33, and is singularly named Oriental. There are now
over sixty lodges in Chicago. The second lodge in Chicago is No. 141
and bears the name of Garden City. These curious landmarks speaks of
days when Chicago was not so near the "whole thing" as it is now. We
recall our first passage through Chicago in 1856 when some of the streets
looked fitter for the residence of tadpoles than humans. But so too the
best part of the present Boston was back-bay mud flats in my first recollec-
tion. Location is the main thing. Alexandria and St. Petersburg are
witnesses of the fact.

Grand Master Moulton's method strikes him favorably :

Brother Moulton's "encyclical" letter embodying most of his decisions
is a good statement of approved law and usage and his manner of bring-
ing such information to the craft for warning as well as correction in
righteousness, has much to be approved and covers many cases.

174 APPENDIX — PART I.

What first and most attracted his attention in our proceedings was our
action in regard to Masonic homes, and he greatly rejoices that the real-
ization of one at an early day has been assured.

Of objections to the policy, he says:

Friends of the home movement ought not to object to any candid
statement of objections, but give them the fullest consideration. Some
think that with all the public charities for all classes of the afflicted and
needy, which Masons equally with others contribute to sustain, that there
is no need of special institutions supported by Masons alone. Yes ! there
are poorhouses, reform schools and public hospitals, but do they answer
the full demand for Masonic charity? There is such a thing as cold charity
that doles out an unwilling pittance to suffering in extremities, but brothers
and those dependent on them deserve something warmer and tenderer in
the charity extended to them, such as is embraced in the term "home." Of
course, we think first of making the recipients of our charity happier and
having them free from any degrading feeling associated with the public
dole, but we all need initiation into that higher blessedness that of right
belongs to the giver. The home will be a source of pride and self-respect
to every Mason in Illinois and will attract more than it will alienate.

Doubtless some less deserving than others will find admission to the
home and others with a little outside help can do better not to go to the
home, but there are others and plenty to fill the home who will appreciate
it, especially orphan children, whose whole lives can be brightened and
made more creditable to themselves and useful to society.

Ever since Masonry had an existence it has been initiating men into
the higher blessedness of giving, although it is now quite the fashion to
speak of the institution as doing nothing for charity unless it has a pile
of brick and mortar to show for it. It has been the chief boast and glory of
Masonry that its relief was charity in the true sense, given without any
hope of return except the blessedness of giving; without the desire or ex-
pectation that the world would know of the giving, and with all possible
precaution to keep the world outside of the fraternity from knowing of the
necessity which called for it.

Of course there is always a measure of satisfaction in knowing that
distress has been and is being relieved whether that relief comes through
the use of our means of another's ; but the -higher blessedness comes not
in dispensing means of relief raised by the taxation of others; it comes
only in full measure when we give of our own and that to an extent which
we feel, whereby it amounts to giving something of ourselves. It is easy
to be generous — no, not generous, but it is easy to be lavish with other
people's money in relieving the needy and in advertising the fact for the
glory of God, a church, or a fraternity, but it don't build up the ideal char-
acter which is contemplated by the matchless plan of individual respon-
sibility and duty inwrought into the structure of Masonry.

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE. 175

While we are dealing with these higher considerations, we are re-
minded that he says the home will be a source of pride and self-respect to
every Mason in Illinois, and that it will attract more than it will alienate.

We think no one will be more ready to admit than he, that pride in
mere material showings is not the highest consideration to appeal to, as he
certainly will admit, also, that to desire to attract men to Masonry by
showing what it is proposed to do for them in a material way is to rev-
olutionize the attitude of fraternity maintained time out of mind.

We readily admit that more can be said as to the necessity of orphan-
ages, particularly in cities, than for any other institutional form of bene-
ficences ; we doubt not that he will as readily admit that an orphange is
far from affording the ideal environment for orphan children, when con-
trasted with that afforded by the private home.

Brother Hedges credits the author of the Illinois report on corre-
spondence with being a "N. E. Puritan Yankee" differing from him only in
not having been as far west. We confess to both ends of the impeachment,
and with sincere regret that we have never yet been able to get as far
west as Helena. Probably it is to provincialism due to lack of travel, that
he credits our suspicion, to-wit :

He is suspicious of the Masonry of Egypt and seems apprehensive that
the rite of Memphis has stretched its genealogy. Why, bless your heart.
Masonry was an old institution in Egypt, before Abraham ever left Ur of
the Caldees or Joseph became a shriner.

He further says :

Brother Bobbins seems to have had poor success in his correspondence
with the grand master of Egypt and is disinclined to take any second-hand
evidence. It depends upon where you look for the true "strawberry mark."
We regard chiefly the present constitution and purpose. Others seem to
regard the origin and thread of descent as the principal thing.

We refer him to our notice of Alabama for the measure of success that
finally crowned our patient waiting for something definite from land of
the Sphinx. Where should a man look for the "strawberry-mark," if not
where he agreed to look as a condition of being permitted to look at all?

Yes, "present constitution and purpose" would let in the whole brood,
with Justin Pinney's grand lodge in the van.

176 APPENDIX — PART I.

NEBRASKA, 1903.

46TH Annual. Omaha. June 3.

Eighteen past grand masters and thirty-one grand representatives were
present, among them Past Grand Master George H. Thimmel, the envoy
from Illinois.

The grand master (Nathaniel M. Ayers) modestly says of himself;

At the time of my election one year ago, I did not feel competent to
fill the highest office in the gift of Masons, and would have declined the
high honor had it not been for the earnest solicitation of my many per-
sonal friends. I did not have the advantage of a finished education, as
have many of my predecessors. My character was moulded on a farm and
my education finished in a country district school before I was fifteen
years of age. However, I have no apologies to offer the grand lodge. I
have criticised where circumstances demanded and given credit where
credit was due, and have at all times, in a fraternal manner, advised the
officers and members of lodges on matters that required attention or im-
provement.

He gives a very full and methodical account of his stewardship, showing
that he had had a very busy year, withholding nothing that was profitable
for doctrine, correction or reproof.

Sometimes, on second thought, Mahomet went to the mountain :

In the case of M. F. Wait, who was tried for embezzling funds be-
longing to Euclid Lodge No. 97, and was found guilty by the lodge ac-
cording to the charges and specifications, on a vote of twelve to four in
favor of a reprimand. The brother, who lives in Chicago, did not appear
to receive such reprimand, but afterwards paid his dues to the lodge
amounting to $18, and asked for a dimit, which I ruled could not be
granted until he presented himself to the lodge and received his reprimand,.
as charges were still pending against him until the penalty had been in-
flicted. After due consideration, believing that the brother had been suffi-
ciently punished, on February 4, I recommended that the charges against
the brother be withdrawn, and that if he still desired a dimit, it should be
granted afterwards, which was accordingly done.

In this case, Brother Wait seemed to have been the victim of circum-
stances and hard times, and while he used the funds of the lodge and did
not replace them, yet he has been deprived of the privilege of Freemasonry
for the past nine or ten years, and I am of the opinion that he has been
sufficiently punished for his misdemeanor, and hope that this matter is-
now settled for all time to come.

He landed on the solar plexus, but not hard enough to hurt :

SOLAR LODGE NO. I34.

Our grand custodian visited this lodge on September 18, 19, and 20, and
in checking up its affairs, he found they had no charter or warrant an-

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE. 177

thorizing them to work, their charter having been burned in the year 1894,
since which time they have worked as a chartered lodge, using only a
copy of their charter, which they considered sufficient authority for con-
tinuing their work. On September 22 I received the above information,
and at once issued an official order to the officers and members of this
lodge to cease their labors until they received authority to continue, from
myself or the grand lodge. At the same time I began an investigation and
learned that no wrong was intended ; the officers and members simply
taking it for granted that a copy of the charter was sufficient authority for
the work or it would not have been issued. On October 8, I issued a sec-
ond order setting aside the one of September 22, authorizing this lodge to
continue their labors until this session of the grand lodge, and I now ask
that all acts of Solar Lodge No. 134, during the absence of their charter, be
legalized by this grand lodge, and that a new charter be issued at the ex-
pense of Solar lodge.

The acts of the lodge subsequent to the burning of the charter were
declared valid, but whether upon the obvious and sufficient ground that it
had never ceased to be a regularly chartered lodge, does not appear of
record.

The Euclid Lodge matter went, like the above, to the law committee
and was probably ignored as no report was made thereon. Nineteen de-
cisions were reported, a portion of which we copy :

3. A master can order the ballot spread for the advancement of a
rejected Entered Apprentice or Fellow Craft at a regular meeting, and a
written application for advancement is not necessary, nor is it necessary for
an application to lie over one lunar month. This decision is based upon
paragraph 6, section 107, page 45 of the law, and in answer to several in-
quiries involving the same subject.

5. Two lodges in separate towns cannot agree on concurrent jurisdic-
tion, neither can one waive a certain territory in favor of another without
the action of the grand lodge. A waiver between lodges is only good in
individual cases.

6. The trustees of a Masonic lodge cannot rent a new hall and move
the lodge from one room to another without the action of the lodge.

7. A man who has lost the thumb and first finger of his left hand,
other things being favorable, is a suitable candidate for the degrees of
Masonry.

8. A loda,e may hold in abeyance for a reasonable length of time an
application for a dimit for the purpose of preferring charges for unmasonic
conduct.

9. A member in good standing is entitled to a certificate of his Ma-
sonic standing without the action of the lodge, and it should be issued by
the secretary and signed by the master.

ir. If a candidate for initiation declines or refuses to submit to our
mode of preparation, under our law the fees are the property of the lodge
and on a clear ballot are turned over to the treasurer.

12. "Affirm" or "declare" by a candidate for initiation are not suffi-
cient, according to all Masonic practice and usage. The usual form of
preparation must be used in all cases of initiation or advancement.

178 APPENDIX — PART I.

15. A member of a lodge objects to the use of black cubes for black
balls in place of black round balls for balloting on candidates.

Ruled that the objection is well taken. "White balls elect and black
balls reject." No other form but round should be used in the ballot-box
and I find no authority for the use of cubes.

16. A lodge in Nebraska conferring the Fellow Craft or Master Ma-
son's degree on material at the request of an Iowa lodge, should only bal-
lot on this candidate for proficiency, as one ballot in Iowa elects to all
three of the degrees and as this is the material of an Iowa lodge, the can-
didate has already been elected to receive the three degrees.

The above decision was concurred in by the grand master of Iowa.

18. A lodge finding a brother guilty of a Masonic offense, and failing
or refusing to inflict a penalty for such offence, is subject to discipline for
such a failure. After the above decision was made, the brother who had
been found guilty paid his dues and asked for a dimit ; but I decided that
a dimit could not be granted as charges were still pending, but that if the
brother would appear at a regular meeting and receive a reprimand the
dimit as requested could be granted.

19. A brother must be clear of the books before a dimit can be
granted, and the grand lodge dues must be paid for the full year that such
dimit is granted, but the lodge dues are only to be paid up to the time the
dimit is given unless there are existing by-laws to the contrary.

Decision No. 3 was disapproved, grounds not stated. Nos. 5, 6, 7,
8 and 9 were properly approved. No. 11 was approved, but not, we should
say, on the ground of equity. No. 12, merited and received approval. No.
15 was disapproved, and as we think, properly so ; it hadn't legs enough
to stand on. No. 16 did not pass muster, but for what reason we are un-
able to judge. The committee assign the following sound reasons why
Nos. 18 and 19 should be disapproved.

That said decision No. 18 be not approved because if the lodge fol-
lowed the provisions of section 305 of the grand lodge by-laws, the master
and not the lodge was in error, and if no vote was taken as to the degree
of punishment, then it was not enough for the brother to appear and sub-
mit to the reprimand, the degree of punishment not having as yet been de-
termined.

That decision No. 19 be disapproved because grand lodge dues are
not a charge against the individual member, but are chargeable only
against the lodge. Lodge dues are chargeable against the members in ac-
cordance with the provisions of the lodge by-laws.

Referred to the jurisprudence committee from the floor, were the
following :

The following matters were referred to the committee on jurispru-
dence : Query from Bro. William A. DeBord. worshipful master of Capitol
Lodge No. 3, asking if a lodge can by one ballot authorize another lodge
to post and examine an Entered Apprentice Mason and confer the re-
maining degrees, or if it requires a separate ballot for each degree.

Query from Past Grand Master Evans as to what is Masonic or law-
ful information that a person is a Mason, and through how many, if any,
can such information be transmitted by avouchment.

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE. 179

And the following answers were approved :

Answer to the query of Brother DeBord : A lodge requesting the
conferring of the degrees hy another lodge may in the same ballot also
request the lodge to ballot on the advancement of the brother as well as
on his proficiency, and if requested, the other lodge may do just as the re-
questing lodge might have done.

Answer to the query of Past Grand Master Evans : In the case of a
visiting brother, Masonic information is only obtained by sitting in lodge
or by a committee appointed by the master of the lodge for the purpose
of examination.

Because we agree with the language we have italicized, we think
No. 16 should have been approved.

A claim from a Kansas lodge for expenses incurred in the burial of
a deceased member of a Nebraska lodge now extinct, had been with-
drawn by reason of the action of the Grand Lodge of Kansas, which body
had decided that where aid was extended without previous arrangement
with, or direct request from the lodge of the beneficiary, there could be
no just claim to be reimbursed, a conclusion in full accord with the posi-
tion of Illinois.

Complaints of the drinking habits of the master of a leading lodge led
to a partial investigation in October which did not develop enough to jus-
tify action, but in January the grand master was compelled to arrest the
gavel of the master and place the lodge in charge of the wardens with ad-
monition to the deposed to cease the use of intoxicants. We can well be-
lieve the grand master when he says that the occasion of the reinstatement
of the master, who by the middle of April had by his behavior given proof
of his trustworthiness, was one of the happiest moments of his life.

The grand master was fully convinced that energetic steps should be
at once taken to either build or buy a Masonic home, for which purpose
an organization was effected years ago, now having in its hands $6,934.40.
In addition there was money subscribed by lodges and individuals, some
of which notwithstanding the statute of limitations had placed them out
of reach, would be paid. The trustees probably have something up their
sleeve, as we find the following in the last page of the minutes :

Past Grand Master Lininger, president of the Nebraska Masonic
Home, made a statement in regard to the prospects of starting a home in
Nebraska, saying that unless something unforeseen happened, a Masonic
home would be provided for in thirty or sixty days, and offered to give
the brethren any information in regard to the further plans of the trustees.
He further stated that if there was no objection offered, he would take it
for granted that it was the sense of the grand lodge that the trustees should
proceed with the work of starting a home.

The grand master attacked unsparingly the practice of rotation in
office whereby good masters go out to make room for those whose only
qualification is that they have served as wardens, but who in too many

180 APPENDIX — PART T.

instances know nothing of the ritual, the law, or the duties of a master of
a lodge. He says :

In my opinion a master-elect should be required to exemplify the work
and pass an examination on law, ritual, history, customs, and usages, and
should be familiar with the laws of the grand lodge and the by-laws of
his own lodge, before being installed.

The succession of inefficient wardens occurs often enough so that one
does not wonder at these extreme views, but we think that in the long
run it is better that these things should be put up with rather than that
the free choice of the brethren in officering their lodge should be inter-
fered with.

The report of the trustees of the orphans' educational fund shows that
the fund amounts to $38,713.32, an increase of $2,053.14 over last year.

The learned and lengthy address of the grand orator, Roscoe Pound, is
an exposition of the scope of Dr. Krause's books on Freemasonry, very
interesting and instructive.

The Grand Lodge of Victoria was recognized, but the committee on
correspondence found the application of the Grand Orient of Argentine
unaccompanied by sufficient data to enable them to make an intelligent
finding as to the Masonic character of the applicant, and was therefore
permitted to hold the subject for further investigation.

The amendment to which we referred in our review of Nebraska for
1902, as being designed to get a brother out of one lodge and into another
without his having a chance to get away, and without his getting wet
while crossing the bridge, was adopted. It is a modification and sup-
posed to be an improvement on the legislation of some years ago when
the chief object in life with several grand lodges seemed to be to prevent
the escape of any taxable material. Its last shape is as follows :

Any affiliated Mason, desiring to join another lodge, shall be entitled
to a certificate of his standing in his own lodge, and upon such certificate
shall be entitled to apply for membership in any other lodge. Upon elec-
tion to membership, the secretary of the lodge in which such election has
taken place shall notify the lodge in which the membership has heretofore
rested, of such election, and thereupon the secretary of the lodge receiving
such notice shall issue a dimit to the brother so elected, which dimit shall
be forwarded to the lodge in which he has been elected and the change of
membership shall commence from the date of the dimit.

In view of a pending proposition which is likely to be adopted next
year, levying a capitation tax of fifty cents for the maintenance of the
Nebraska Masonic Home, there is likely to be a recrudescence of the anti-
non-affiliate craze. This year the grand lodge leads off with a plan de-
vised, or at least offered by Past Grand Master Dins more, bearing the
olive branch in one hand and the fraternal thumbscrew in the other, viz. :

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE. 181

Whereas: There are in this jurisdiction at the present time twenty
extinct lodges, and by reason of their becoming extinct the members thereof
have become members at large of this grand lodge to the number of 133.
The great proportion of said members have neglected or refused to pay
dues to this grand lodge which now amount to the sum of $4,000, and

Whereas, This amount is increasing from year to year, said members
contributing little or nothing to the support of Masonry and are neglecting
their plain Masonic duty, therefore be it

Resolved, That all dues to this grand lodge be and the same are hereby
remitted to all members who shall during the current year apply to the
grand secretary for a dimit from this grand lodge for the purpose of join-
ing some other lodge ; and

Resolved, further, That any member of this grand lodge from an ex-
tinct lodge, who shall not take his dimit or pay all dues due this grand
lodge during the current year, shall have charges preferred against him by
the grand junior warden, in the lodge within whose jurisdiction the brother
lives, said charges to be non-payment of dues, and shall then take the
course provided for in section 307 of the grand lodge by-laws.

The grand lodge chartered one new lodge ; exchanged telegraphic
greetings with the Grand Lodge of Iowa, in session at Waterloo, and with
Past Grand Master Robert W. Furnas, at Hot Springs, South Dakota,
for his health ; gave the committee on promulgation of work further time
to perfect and report its plan ; adopted a constitutional amendment locat-
ing itself permanently at Omaha, and ordered a United States flag of
proper size to be carried on all occasions when the body "appears out."

Frank E. Bullard, of North Platte, was elected grand master ;
Francis E. White, Omaha, re-elected grand secretary.

The report on correspondence (98 pp.) is this time wholly the work of
Past Grand Master Charles J. Phelps, of the interesting quality of which
in former reports, we have heretofore spoken. His notice of Illinois is
of our proceedings of 1902. He epitomizes the address of Grand Master
Moulton ; touches the work of the district deputies, and noting the ac-
ceptance of the Miller bequest, the appointment of trustees and the levy-
ing of a per capita tax for building of a Masonic home, says : "Thus an-
other great work of benevolence is inaugurated, the success of which no
man can doubt."

He refers at some length to the remarks and correspondence con-
cerning the recognition of the National Grand Lodge of Egypt, and
cites the disclosure of the fact that celebrated English Masons have
endorsed the regularity of that body (without noting the fact that
these same Masons confessed their entire ignorance of its history and
genealogy,) as showing that Past Grand Master Lininger made no mis-
take in hob-nobbing w.th the Egyptians, nor his grand lodge in ratifying
their arrangement for mutual recognition. In his kind notice of our re-
port he says :

Is- * APPENDIX — PART I

Our grand lodge's recognition of Egypt and Costa Rica in 1901 calls
out some criticism, of course.

The spirit of criticism indulged in by our brother and others engaged
in keeping those who seek to conciliate true friendship at a perpetual dis-
tance, apparently takes no stock in the teaching that "Masonry unites men
of every country, sect, and opinion." Pursue the lines suggested by thest
critics, and foreign countries would cease to be a field where Masonic
intercourse could be indulged, and soon all reference to work and wages,
outside of one's immediate neighborhood, would be eliminated from the
instructions given to initiates.

In the index to our report (which in spite of the present dubious pros-
pect we hope to find or make time to make,) Brother Phelps will find
some estimate of what must be eliminated before the course advocated by
the promoters of recognition of dissenters from the original plan of Ma-
sonry can be lawfully pursued.

If he will kindly take the trouble to look the matter up, it will save
us the much-needed time it would require to again go over the ground
here.

NEVADA, 1904.

40TH Annual. Virginia. June 14.

This volume carries a half-tone portrait of the retiring grand master,
Trenmor Coffin.

Eight past grand masters were present. The diplomatic corps mus-
tered twenty-four, among them Chas. E. Mack, the representative of
Illinois.

Severe and long-continued illness prevented the presence of the grand
master, and the grand lodge was therefore opened in due form by the
deputy grand master, George Gillson, who read the address of his su-
perior, who pathetically says :

With true Masonic pride I have looked forward to that highest of
high honors, the distinction of presiding over my brethren in grand lodge
assembled; but the Supreme Grand Master has willed otherwise. He doeth
all things well. I dare look up to Him and say, "Deal with me as Thou
wilt; I am Thine." Though I cannot be with you, brethren, I send you
greeting, and rejoice with you that our lodges are prosperous and that
peace prevails.

The death roll does not include the name of any of the past or pres-
ent official circle.

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The few decisions rendered by Grand Master Coffin were chiefly in-
terpretations of local law and all were correct statements along well trod-
den lines, if we except an implication that his consent might be necessary
to validate a waiver of jurisdiction by a Nevada, in favor of a California
lodge.

When the reading of his address was finished, regrets for his absence
and sympathy for his illness were wired him by order of the grand lodge,
to which he replied :

Dear Brothers : — Thank you for your kind and sympathetic message.
Deeply regret I cannot meet you all again in this life. God grant that we
may all meet when the Great Grand Lodge meets above with the loving
Father as Grand Master. Fraternally,

Trenmor Coffin.

Acting Grand Master Gillson, in his address, presented the following
from St. John Lodge, written to the grand secretary, and received at so
late an hour that he preferred to submit the situation directly to the
grand lodge :

Dear Sir and Brother: — At request of lodge I am asking your ad-
vice and decision on a case : L. M. Harwood sent in his petition to this
lodge, which was, in due time, reported on favorably. He was initiated
the ist inst. When he sent in his petition he informed us that he had been
initiated in Kansas but had forgotten the name and number of lodge — left
without being instructed — but gave us the town, etc., but our committee
failed to write, having known Harwood for about eight years (he had in-
formed us of above facts) but Brother Harwood himself wrote to a brother,
but he failed to answer until we had taken action and just before balloting
it was remarked we should have heard before acting and then avoided the
following answer to Brother Harwood's letter of 27 ult, from Goodland
Kansas :

"Our register and ledger shows that on September 21, 1889, your peti-
tion was presented to this lodge, and that the same was accompanied by
the fee of $10; that on October 19, 1889, you were duly elected to receive
the degrees, and that on said last date you were initiated as an E. A. Our
fee for the degrees is $30 and there is now due this lodge $20, and the only
way I can see out of this, is for you to remit the fee or balance of it, and
then have the lodge where you reside get authority to confer the two de-
grees. You will then become a member of this lodge and entitled to a
dimit if you so desire. You cannot petition another lodge, except for ad-
vancement, and no other lodge can confer the degrees except on request
of this lodge. This is a matter of grand lodge by-laws, and is not a mat-
ter of personal assumption of authority."

Kindly advise us as to proper course to pursue. Some of the brothers
suggested that possibly legal time has elapsed, it being so many years ago.
Of course we are to blame, under the circumstances, for not waiting for
information and facts.

The grand lodge adopted the sensible recommendation of the juris-
prudence committee to declare the whole proceeding of St. John Lodge a
nullity, and agreed to the decision of the committee that the only way in

184 APPENDIX — PART I.

which Brother Harwood could take the remaining degrees in a Nevada
lodge, was for the Kansas lodge either to waive jurisdiction or to request
the Nevada lodge to confer the degrees for and in its behalf.

The acting grand master proposed the following as a general regu-
lation :

The master of a lodge may suspend from office any officer of his lodge
who unreasonably neglects to qualify himself to perform, or being quali-
fied unreasonably neglects to perform the duties of his office, and in case
of such suspension may appoint another to fill the vacancy.

The majority of the jurisprudence committee reported thereon as
follows :

We are under the impression that the rules and regulations of this
grand lodge now vest sufficient power in the master of a lodge to suspend
any officer of his lodge who unreasonably neglects to qualify himself, or
being qualified, unreasonably neglects to perform the duties of his office.
We therefore do not deem any additional regulation or law advisable.

This was signed by Past Grand Masters Kyle and Murphy. The
third member of the committee, Past Grand Master Fitzgerald, thus
wisely and prudently dissents :

I doubt the power of the master of a lodge to the full extent stated in
the majority report. If the master has the power stated, then of course,
there is no need of giving it again. On the contrary if he has it not under
the constitution and laws of this grand jurisdiction and the general Ma-
sonic law, then I am unwilling, so radically, to change the law in this par-
ticular without more mature consideration.

He was, unfortunately, overruled, the majority report being adopted.
Perhaps this adoption was inevitable, and that we ought to be thankful for
the vaguer impressions of the committee rather than to have the radicalism
of the proposition in the down-right form of a regulation. But whatever
may have been the real situation, the honors of the contest were in our
judgment carried off by Brother Fitzgerald.

George Gillson was elected grand master ; Chauncey N. Noteware
re-elected grand secretary, both of Carson City.

The report on correspondence (136 pp.), a bright, breezy, and generally
level-headed paper more than realizing the promise of its predecessor of
last year, is the second report by Bro. E. D. Vanderlieth, of Carson City.

It is largely in his own text, but he does make extracts, and if he will
only prevail on his printer to set them "solid," it will be a boon to his
readers, and especially his reviewers, and will give more space in the
same number of pages for his own properly "leaded" work.

Illinois for 1903 is liberally treated both as to quantity (space) and
quality of work. Our grand chaplain's thought that "the greatest results
are wrought out in civilization by obscure workers" prompts him to say:

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE. 185

Who does not honor the common workers of the lodge ! Truly, they
are righting Masonry's battles. We may have an eloquent master or an
efficient secretary, but the common workers, they who toil outwardly at all
times for the good of the order, patiently and humbly carrying Masonry
into their daily lives, living examples of its greatest fundamental principles,
they are the beauty and the glory of the craft. On the shoulders of such
Masonry rests.

He touches Grand Master Moulton's "vigorous" writing and his "ad-
mirable address," and is stirred by Grand Orator McFatrich's eloquent
periods. Of our claim that writers on correspondence are justified in
characterizing the authors of the reports he passes under review, he says :

We would rather have the kind words, if deserving, while we may
hear them. As with kind words, so with deeds of mercy, smiles, flowers,
kisses : God intended them for the living, and Masonry teaches that they
are to cheer up heavy hearts, discouraged spirits and troubled minds.
Each is a variable bit of the language of kindness. "Kindness is wisdom.
There is none in life, but needs it and may learn."

Commending last year his vigorous denunciation of the prostitution
of the emblems of Masonry and the American flag to advertising greed,
we suggested that he should not permit his nerves to be disturbed by the
red and white stripes of the barber's pole, which was a survival, and not a
new device of this greedy age, leads him, after quoting our account of its
origin, to say :

Our nerves, Brother, are not disturbed by the red and white, nor do
we object. It is when the blue is added that we become irritable, and
when white stars are added to the blue, then do we "most emphatically
buck."

It is to be understood that our brother doesn't really buck at the re-
sulting "glory" when all the additions have been made, but only when the
combination is used for advertising purposes; then he can't kick too high
for us.

NEW BRUNSWICK, 1903.

36th Annual. Saint John. August 25.

Two full length portraits in full regalia, those of William Wedder-
burn, Q. C, who was grand master in 1870-1871, and John V. Ellis,
grand master from 1872 to 1S74 and again from 1884 to 1S86, embellish the
New Brunswick volume.

Two past grand masters and the representatives of twenty-seven grand
jurisdictions were present, Illinois not included.

186 APPENDIX— PART I.

The grand master, Arthur I. Trueman, was compelled to announce
the death of two past deputy grand masters, John A. Watson and Wil-
liam F. Dibblee, Past Grand Sword Bearer Arthur Everett, three other
past, and one present master.

The record of the grand master's visitations shows a close oversight
of the lodges under his care, and reflect their generally creditable condi-
tion.

He feels the lack of touch with other jurisdictions consequent on
having no report on correspondence, and says :

Hitherto our grand lodge has not reviewed the proceedings of the
grand lodges with which we maintain friendly relations. The question
of the desirability of having a report of foreign correspondence cannot, I
believe, be successfully disputed. After very careful consideration, I
would urgently recommend that this lodge instruct our committee on rela-
tions with foreign grand bodies to prepare such a report during the com-
ing year, and authorize its publication with our proceedings. I have read
with great pleasure many of these reports as prepared by our sister grand
lodges, and have found them interesting and profitable. The knowledge
by our brethren of what is being done by other grand lodges — which
knowledge can only be had by the publication with our proceedings of a
svnopsis of such work — cannot do otherwise than stimulate them to emu-
late the virtues and shun the errors and mistakes pointed out.

The committee on address recommended this subject to the serious
consideration of the grand lodge, and in view of the large financial ex-
pense it would involve suggest that the matter be referred to the board
of general purposes for report next year.

A proposition to so amend the constitution as to permit dual member-
ship also went to the board for similar report, endorsed with the declaration
that the grand lodge approve of the principle involved.

Arthur f. Trueman, grand master, and J. Twining Hartt, grand
secretary, both of Saint John, were re-elected.

There is no report on correspondence.

NEW HAMPSHIRE, 1903.

114.TH Annual. Concord. May 20.

The portraits of the year are half-tones of John Francis Webster,
who was grand master in 1883 and 1S84; Joseph Kidder, grand treasurer
from 1874 until his death, October 29, 1902; and Edwin Osgood Upham,
junior grand deacon by appointment in 1902, who died March 14, 1903.

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE.

The proceedings also contain a view of the New Hampshire Masonic
Home at Manchester, from the architect's drawing, a stately structure
whose corner-stone was laid by Grand Master Cheney July 8, 1902, and
which was dedicated May 11, 1903.

At the semi-annual communication of December 30, 1902, held at
Manchester, ten past grand masters and the representatives of thirty-one
jurisdictions were present, the envoy of Illinois not among them. Grand
Master Charles R. Montague, of Vermont, was an honored guest.

A visit was paid to the unfinished Masonic Home ; the work of the
three degrees was exemplified on actual candidates by three different
lodges, and the usual banquet enjoyed.

At the evening session a master convicted at the preceding annual
communication of the grand lodge, of misconduct while in office, was pur-
suant to the findings, presented to the grand master, who publicly ad-
monished him for his offence, and declared him suspended from all the
rights and benefits of Masonry for the term of one year from the date of
the semi-annual.

At the annual communication (May 20) twelve past grand masters
and the representatives of thirty-four grand jurisdictions were present,
among the latter Sewall W. Abbott, the Illinois envoy.

The grand master, (Harry M. Cheney) had a long death roll to re-
port— Joseph Kidder, grand treasurer, who died at 83 ; Edwin Osgood
Upham, junior grand deacon, at 44; and past district deputy grand mas-
ters George Warren Converse Dudley (68) ; Charles Bruce Griswold,
(70) ; Leonard Jarvis Tuttle, (72), and Waldo Adolphus Russell,
(52). In Brother Upham we recognize the son of an old boyhood friend
and schoolmate, Bro. Osgood W. Upham, whose membership in our
mother lodge (Wyoming) at Melrose, was of a somewhat later date than
our own.

Relative to spurious lodges the grand master says :

In April last, the fact was brought to my attention tnat an agent of

this same illegitimate association was attempting to organize a spurious

lodge in Manchester ; but my information is to the effect that the effort
was unsuccessful.

Lodge officers should use every precaution in the admission of any
stranger who desires to visit their lodges. It is our right and duty to be
absolutely satisfied that the would-be visitor is a member in good stand-
ing of some recognized lodge of some recognized grand jurisdiction, and
no true Mason can find fault if under the present .circumstances a more
stringent proof is required. I am not quite sure that the time has come
when the production of a duly executed diploma should be demanded
before an examination of the would-be visitor may be permitted ; but I
am satisfied that it is a matter of deep concern to our grand lodge, to
which I call attention, that any action deemed necessary to meet the condi-
tion may be properly considered.

1S> APPENDIX — PART I.

The belief manifestly predominated that the situation was serious
enough to warrant drastic measures, as the following, presented by Past
Grand Master McAllister, was adopted :

Resolved, That no visitor to a lodge shall be examined for admission
until he exhibits to the examining committee his diploma, issued him as a
Master Mason in good and regular standing, by his lodge and under its
seal and the seal of his grand lodge, and that no visitor shall be examined
by such a committee unless he is a member of a lodge chartered by this
grand lodge or by a grand lodge which is recognized as genuine by this
grand lodge ; and that no visitor shall be admitted to a lodge without an
examination unless he is avouched for by a member of the lodge as a
Master Mason in good and regular standing, and as a member of a lodge
chartered by this grand lodge or by some grand lodge recognized as genu-
ine by this grand lodge ; and that no non-affiliated Mason shall be ex-
amined for admission to a lodge as a visitor without first exhibiting to the
examining committee a dimit from the last lodge of which he was a
member, showing that he is a Master Mason in good and regular standing,
or a duly authenticated certificate of the grand secretary of the grand
lodge under whose jurisdiction he resides, showing that he is a Master
Mason in good and regular standing ; and that such visitor shall not be
admitted unless the lodge of which he was last a member was chartered
by this grand lodge, or by a grand lodge that is recognized as genuine
by this grand lodge ; and that the grand master send a copy of this reso-
lution at once to the worshipful master and secretary of every lodge, and
direct them to have it read in their lodge at its next stated communication,
and order the said worshipful master strictly to enforce this resolution.

Two lodges celebrated their centennials, King Solomon's No. 14, at
Elkins, in the town of New London, on June 27; and Mt. Vernon No. 15,
at Newport, on September 5th. Of the latter, the grand master says :

The most remarkable feature of this centennial observance was the
presence throughout all the exercises of the day of Bro. James B. Mc-
Gregor, of Newport, a member of Mount Vernon Lodge. For seventy-
seven years Brother McGregor had been a Mason, and on the next clay
following the centennial anniversary of Mount Vernon Lodge he attained
the great age of one hundred and one years. All of us were delighted to
meet this venerable brother. He was also equally delighted to greet the
visiting brethren, and he participated in all the exercises with the activity
and pleasure of men fifty years his junior. He was properly honored in
"very way.

The grand master gave a brief account of the laying of the corner-
stone and of the subsequent dedication of the Masonic Home, full ac-
counts of which ceremonials are published elsewhere in the proceedings.
He expresses the hope that the members of the grand lodge fully realize
the task they have undertaken, and says :

At this communication your are to discuss, and I trust take action, upon
a present method of providing funds for its immediate operation. There
seems to me to be no other method for us to adopt than the levying of a
per capita tax, and the amount proposed appeals to me as being very
remote from that of a burden. At all events you must do something in
this direction. I do not hesitate to prophecy that in time — and that time

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE. 189

many of you will live to see — this home will be abundantly endowed. I
trust that there are those here today who will remember this institution,
your institution, as generously as your means and conditions will permit.
The building has been erected by the accumulation of comparatively small
contributions, and similar contributions, small though some must be
through necessity, will in due course permit the home to do its intended
mission.

The legislation foreshadowed by him materialized, the pending amend-
ment levying a per capita tax of fifty cents for the support of the home.
Seven decisions are reported, of which we copy three.

Can an application in regular form be withdrawn from the hands of
the secretary before it has been read in a lodge and referred to a com-
mittee ?

Yes.

Should the secretary deposit the fee with the treasurer before an ap-
plication has been voted upon and accepted?

No. The fee is not the property of the lodge until the petition has
been favorably voted upon.

Is it in accordance with Ancient Craft Masonry for a lodge to receive
a sum of money to be held in trust, the income to be used for all time to
keep a brother Master Mason's grave in repair?

Yes.

We wonder how the first question got asked, because until a petition
gets somehow into the hands of a Masonic organization it manifestly could
not become subject to any Masonic rule.

No. 2 is a twin brother of No. i. provided the grand master means by
"favorably voted upon," that the lodge has voted to entertain the petition
and send it to a committee of inquiry. If the lodge has referred a petition
we think the fee should be paid over to the treasurer, to be drawn out by
order of the lodge in case he is rejected. He also properly decided that
where a petition had been wrongfully received and acted upon the fee
must be returned to the petitioner, and that where an Entered Apprentice
or Fellow Craft moves away from the territory of his lodge, the lodge
may finish up its work without asking permission of the lodge where he
now resides.

Harry M. Cheney, of Lebanon, grand master, and Frank D. Wood-
bury, Concord, grand secretary, were re-elected.

The report on correspondence (160 pp.) by Bro. Albert S. Wait, is
another of those able papers which have given his grand lodge so high a
place in this department.

In his closing survey of the field, he says :

Differences of opinion and variety of usage exist to about the same
extent as last year, and the discussions have not been far different from

190 APPENDIX — PART I.

those to which we alluded in our last preceding report. The chief sub-
jects of diversity appear to be non-affiliation, physical qualification for the
degrees, perpetual jurisdiction, and they continue to divide opinion to
about the same extent as in former years. Nothing like controversy, how-
ever, has resulted from these differences in sentiment, to disturb the pre-
vailing harmony. The use of cypher rituals has been made the subject
of protest by some grand masters and foreign correspondence writers, but
while their utterances have been largely assented to the practice does hot
appear to have been lessened or curtailed by their animadversions. It
appears to be among that class of vices which once gaining a foothold is
found difficult to eradicate, and we suspect it is with us to stay. The most
we can hope from the efforts against it is that it may be so hedged about
and held in check as to reduce its mischiefs to their lowest proportions.

Our brethren of Ohio, and in some lesser degree those of New York,
Pennsylvania, and perhaps other grand jurisdictions, are wrestling with
the subject of clandestine Masonry, and the efforts to stamp it out in the
first named jurisdiction appear to us worthy a fight with a moral octopus.
We commend their vigor and shall rejoice in their complete success.

In our proceedings for 1902 he finds material for extended notice of
points chiefly furnished by the address of Grand Master Moulton. He
says :

The grand master had promulgated what he terms an Encyclical, ad-
dressed to the worshipful masters, wardens and brethren of all the con-
stituent lodges of the jurisdiction, embracing, as he says, all decisions, and
interpretations of the laws which had been rendered up to the time of its
issue. It does not quite certainly appear to us whether the several pro-
positions of this paper are rulings upon questions actually presented to the
grand master for decision, or are in the nature of abstract doctrines, pro-
mulgated for the government of the craft as they may hereafter arise.
The form in which they are put seems to us to indicate the latter, thus
giving the document a legislative rather than a judicial character. We copy
those upon which question arose later in the communication :

He is the first among our reviewers to suggest the question whether
the propositions of the Encyclical did not partake more of a legislative than
judicial character. Quoting Nos. 2, 4, 6, and 8, he gives in a running ac-
count the comments of the jurisprudence committee thereon, and the par-
liamentary steps by which both were finally disposed of.

This, which he quotes from the grand master's address, seems to him
extraordinary :

Several cases of imposition upon lodges by petitioners who had been
previously rejected in other lodges and suppressed of misrepresented the
fact of previous rejection were reported, and in each instance the offender
was ordered to be placed on trial with the injunction that in the event of
conviction, no punishment less than expulsion would be deemed adequate.
With one exception, where extenuating circumstances were in evidence,
and the sentence correspondingly mitigated, the injunction was heeded.
The most flagrant case of this nature was that of a petitioner who had been
rejected more than once in a neighboring jurisdiction, who grossly de-
ceived one of the Chicago lodges, was elected and received the degrees

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE. 191

therein. A disclosure of his previous record brought about a trial and
conviction, with sentence of definite suspension. Naturally our brethren
of Wisconsin felt that justice had not been invoked to its fullest extent.
Upon investigation, learning that circumstances were as alleged, and ad-
mitted by the accused, I ordered so much of the proceedings of the lodge
as fixed the punishment at definite suspension to be set aside, and that the
accused be expelled from all rights and privileges of Masonry, due notice
to be extended and record made thereof, all of which was done.

And reproduces the dissent of the committee on jurisprudence, as fol-
lows:

Your committee does not approve the right of the most worshipful
grand master to order the expulsion of a Mason convicted of an unmasonic
offence, when the lodge has already voted for definite suspension. This
committee does not doubt but that the severer punishment was deserved,
but think it could only be inflicted by the lodge itself, acting freely, or by
this M. W. grand lodge upon an appeal to it.

And thus comments :

The grand master made a motion as extraordinary, to our thinking, as
was his action in the case, to strike out so much of that part of the com-
mittee's report as referred to expulsion of a Mason by order of the M. W.
grand master and to substitute thereof approval and confirmation of the
action of the grand master. The motion was lost, and thus the view of the
committee was sustained, and the action of the grand master disapproved.

A few years ago a similar act of authority to this in Illinois was
assumed and exercised by the grand master of Maine, meeting there no
disapproval. We then denounced it as unauthorized, arbitrary, and in
every view unjustifiable, Brother Drummond (we speak his name with rev-
erance) assumed to defend the action, but although referred to by several
leading writers, we never saw it approved elsewhere. If a grand master
shall hereafter be found assuming such authority, we trust it will be met
by committees and grand lodges as has this with our brethren of Illinois.

Of the subsequent action of the grand lodge in this case, he says :

But we can not overlook a further action of the grand lodge upon the
same case. A member premising that the action of the grand lodge had
restored the expelled brother referred to moved that he be expelled from
all the rights and privileges of Masonry. The grand master ruled that
summary proceedings before the grand lodge were in order, whereupon,
evidence being produced that the brother had pleaded guilty to the charge
alleged against him, the motion was put and carried, whereupon the bro-
ther was declared expelled from all the rights and privileges of Masonry.

We shall not assume to set up as critic of our brethren of the Grand
Lodge of Illinois; we are quite sensible of what that would imply, espec-
ially with such brethren as the five constituting the committee on juris-
prudence, so far as appears, interposing no objection. Still, it may be
noted that the action was not had upon appeal to the grand lodge, held
requisite by the report of the committee, and although by the address of
the grand master relating to the case it was of a class of offences suscep-
tible of extenuating conditions, and where by the plea of guilty, with other
circumstances surrounding the case familiar to the brethren of the lodge,
extenuation might be justified. Our query is whether the accused brother
ought not, for safety as well as justice, to have been accorded a hearing.

192 APPENDIX — PART I.

So far as Brother Wait's criticism of the action of the grand lodge
rests upon the point raised that the case was not before it upon appeal
(and hence not before it in a way to give it jurisdiction to expel), we have
no disposition to belittle it. It is a grave question whether as a precedent
it could be afforded, but so far as the question of justice to the accused
is concerned we have no misgivings. We do not think the point raised
by Brother Wait, the gravity of which we have conceded suggested itself
to anyone present. The circumstances were favorable to its being over-
looked. The grand lodge found the case before it for action, and with no
question of its being there in a way to make its jurisdiction for the action
already had, unquestioned. The feeling was general that the case was a
flagrant one, deserving of a severe penalty, and the evidence being pro-
duced that the offender had had his day in court, the scruples of those who
otherwise had been indisposed to summary action, were removed, and the
motion to expel went through without time for careful reflection. All of
which goes to show that such moments are the most dangerous in the lives
of grand lodges.

Brother Wait again recurs to the subject of the "Encyclical" with
some very pointed questions :

We have one mere query to submit to our brethren of Illinois. Is not
this "Encyclical" or their M. W. grand master, in its structure and con-
tents, a somewhat new departure in ancient Masonry? As before observed,
as we understand it, it does not consist of rulings upon cases which have
arisen in the work of the lodges or among the brethren, but of promulga-
tions, emanating from assumed authority to make law for the government
of the lodges and brethren, legislation, indeed, pure and simple. Is this
within the conceded power of the grand master? Is it not, rather, essential
depotism ? We by no means question his power, we claim it to be his
duty, during the interim of the grand lodge, to rule, judicially, such question
as shall come judicially before him. That is within his ancient and conceded
province, but where is authority for this encyclical to be found, either
in the history or any recognized usage of the craft? There have been
heretofore very few promulgations of this kind in Masonry, and we doubt
whether one going the length of this one. We think it safe to say that
they have been of no such frequency as to take on the character of recog-
nized usage. Going to the extent of this one, if any have, we question
their rectitude.

That Brother Wait is among our most conservative writers is evi-
denced by His remark under Wyoming, in questioning whether it is the
general opinion that the change in usage whereby the business of the lodge
is transacted in the Master Mason instead of the Entered Apprentice de-
gree is wise and wholesome, that "However that may be, there can be no
question that the change was an innovation in the body of Masonry, and a
breaking down of one of its most fundamental characteristics."

Our acknowledgments are due to Brother Wait for his kindly refer-
ence to our report.

MASONIC CORRESPONDFNCR. 193

NEW JERSEY, 1904.

117TH Annual. Trenton. March 9.

The portrait of the year is a steel engraving of the retiring grand
master, W. Holt Apgar.

Seven past grand masters were present, and thirty-six jurisdictions
were represented in the diplomatic corps, Illinois not of the number. Dis-
tinguished visitors were Grand Master Elbert Crandall and suite, of
New York, embracing Past Grand Masters John W. Vrooman and John
Stewart, with officers and past officers of the Grand Lodge of New York
up to the number of thirty-three. At the afternoon session the visiting
past grand masters, Grand Secretary Ehlers and Grand Steward Charles
O. Grim of the New York party, assisted Grand Master Crandall in fur-
nishing their hosts with a "rare oratorical treat."

Alas ! The name of Charles Belcher, past grand master and our
yoke-fellow in this department of Masonic labor since 1900, heads the long
roll of past masters, sixty-two in all whose passing during the year is
chronicled by the grand master.

Brother Belcher, whose services in the grand east was in 1895, was a
strong, self-poised, clear-headed man, whose work bespoke ever the warm-
hearted brother and the true gentleman.

Of social district grand lodges, whose inauguration we noticed last
year, lasting one evening, presided over by the district deputy, and to which
the grand officers are invited, the grand master says :

During the year several social district grand lodges were held, and
have, from the manner in which the brethren expressed themselves, been
of much benefit and general interest to the craft. I believe I am not
wrong in saying that an era of good feeling has spread over the whole
state. This does not mean that there was not peace and harmony among
the lodges and craft in the state, but rather that because of the opportunity
of contact in the social gatherings, interchange of visits and the general
good feeling existing betwen the brethren from all parts of the state, a
greater community of interest has arisen and dissipated somewhat the
ideas of section.

It has been the aim of those attending these social grand lodges to be
helpful to the brethren, and the manner in which the members of the
lodges have received instructions, and at the same time entertained and
helned the grand lodge officers, has made these gatherings mutually bene-
ficial and delightful occasions. I can but recommend their continuance.

A new method of exemplifying the work had been put in practice at
the district grand lodges of instruction :

194 APPENDIX — PART I.

Instead, therefore, of assigning several district deputies to assist the
R. W. grand instructor, the work was exemplified by either the grand
instructor or district deputy of the particular district acting as worshipful
master. The other stations and places were filled by brethren from the
district, chosen by the district deputy, and informed in advance as to how
their services would be required. By thus choosing teams in the various
districts from among officers and brethren active in the work a new in-
terest was evinced, and the brethren thus assisting all made diligent effort
to be thoroughly prepared and to perform the parts assigned to them.
These lodges of instruction have never been better attended, and the uni-
versal expression has been one of pleasure and profit because of the method.

Examinations to determine the question of physical fitness footed up
79; passed, 51; refused, 25; pending, 3. We do not wonder that he had
established a rule — good until another grand master should change it — that
no "to be" candidates would be examined — a petition must have been pre-
sented and the question of physical eligibility submitted to the executive
by the lodge or the master thereof.

The plan of having the physical eligibility pased upon in advance by
the grand master is one calculated to save lodges from getting into trou-
ble because it amounts to giving notice in advance in a given case favor-
ably viewed by him, that he will not call them to account if they accept it,
but the evil side of it is that it tends to relieve the individual voter of the
sense of responsibility so desirable where the real responsibility cannot be
shuffled off even if the penalties of its misuse are escaped. The landmark
respecting physical fitness rests with equal binding force upon all the mem-
bers of the fraternity; no less upon the grand master than upon the indi-
vidual voter, and no less upon the latter after the former has given his
opinion than before. The obligation remains the same and no official de-
liverance or consensus of members can lift it or change its essence.

The remarks of the grand master touching dispensations for con-
ferring degrees seem to us to point to the practice of conferring at least
some of the degrees on a plurality of candidates, that is, of making more
than one Fellow Craft or Master Mason at the same time. We should
be glad to be informed whether this is so. The Indiana discussion has
given the subject a fresh interest.

The three decisions reported all turn on local law or Jersey tradi-
tions or both.

In the effort to get somebody to help the Grand Lodge of New Jersey
to let go of the confessedly undesired and exceedingly regretted condition
of being out of fraternal relation with the Grand Lodge of Washington,
the grand master tries his hand at constructing a formula that would
convey to the Grand Lodge of New Jersey the idea which the Grand
Lodge of Washington succeeded in conveying to the other grand lodges
of the country by the repeal of its resolution of 1898. He says :

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If by proper authority it certified to New Jersey that it has no inten-
tion to claim, and would not recognize as regular, Masons that were unrec-
ognized in this state and who are, by our grand lodge, termed clandestine
Masons ; that it would prohibit their visiting or affiliating with any loges
in their own state, and that it recognizes as supreme in New Jersey the
Grand Lodge of New Jersey and its subordinate lodges, and no others,
then the question of construction, or of intent, could not arise and New
Jersey would have no Masonic reason for refusing to resume fraternal re-
lations therewith.

His effort was approved on the recommendation of the jurisprudence
committee.

The report of the Masonic home shows the number of inmates to be
fifty-nine. The per capita cost of maintenance for the year was $251.85.

The grand lodge charity fund amounting to $1,104.90, has been slightly
increased, and shows, says the grand master, that the lodges are able to
take care of those who do not desire to go to the home, or are ineligible
therefor.

The grand lodge chartered two new lodges ; created the office of dep-
uty grand treasurer ; adopted an amendment to the by-laws, which while
recognizing Trenton as the permanent seat of the body, and its time of
meeting as the first Wednesday after the Third Tuesday in March, in every
year, subject to be changed as to time of meeting by a majority vote;
and extended the sympathies of the brethren to Grand Treasurer Charles
Bechtel and Past Grand Master Henry R. Cannon who were prevented
from being present by sickness.

John H. Wilkins, of Newark, was elected grand master; Thomas
H. R. Redway, Trenton, re-elected grand secretary.

The report on correspondence (153 pp.), the posthumous work of Past
Grand Master Charles Bechtel, possesses all the characteristics of his
former able reports, and helps us more fully to realize the loss to the fra-
ternity caused by his untimely death.

The Illinois proceedings for 1903 are passed in review. The address
of Grand Master Moulton and the business of the session are epitomized,
in the midst of which work he paused to pay the following merited com-
pliment :

The grand orator, Bro. James B. McFatrich, delivered an oration, which
deservedly finds a prominent place in the proceedings. It bristles with loy-
alty and patriotism, and is softened and sweetened by the kindly senti-
ments of universal brotherhood and fraternity. Undoubtedly his hearers
were thrilled and appreciated the well-chosen language of the gifted
brother.

Among other things he says of our report :

His review is of the proceedings of sixty grand lodges on 318 pages,
which is preceded by an index of the subjects on which he treats. Seven

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pages are devoted to New Jersey for 1903. He refers to our position in
regard to the Grand Lodge of Washington ; evidently does not agree with
us, and," if our memory serves us, was not in accord with the action of
many jurisdictions which severed fraternal relations. Allusion is also
made to Brother Apgar's change of date of St. John's day from the 24th
to the 27th of June. We have changed again to the old date.

Of our remark that the jurisprudence committee who reported the
landmarks to the Grand Lodge of New Jersey were handicapped with a
large amount of misinformation the report says : "While this is possible,
we cannot admit its probability. Doctors are apt to disagree."

On two other matters which furnished us food for comment, the report
says :

Regarding the past master's degree, and to relieve the wonderment of
our good brother, we can assure him that New Jersey will continue in its
old-time way, to follow the customs of our forefathers, and confer the de-
gree on those who have been elected to preside over its lodges.

We presume "irregular, null and void, and of no effect," are not ryth-
mical to the sensitive ear or well-trained mind of Brother Robbins, but to
the average Jerseyman they are as sweet as the "curfew, tolling the knell
of parting day," was to the weary laborer.

The whole of our criticism on the New Jersey report on landmarks,
is transferred to the pages of the committee, without other comment than
that already quoted.

NEW MEXICO, 1903.

26th Annual. Albuquerque. October 19.

Five past grand masters were present and fifteen jurisdictions con-
tributed to the diplomatic corps, Illinois not among the number.

While waiting for the report of the committee on credentials, a res-
olution was offered and referred to the committee on ritual, adopting the
Missouri Masonic monitor as the official monitor of the jurisdiction, with
the following specified changes : In the first degree under the paragraph
"Light," after the words "bounds with all mankind," omit the words espe-
cially with "a brother Mason," and under same degree, paragraph "Lamb-
skin," after the words "except he be a Mason," insert the words "which
I present to you without spot or blemish and" under the third degree, un-
der the paragraph explaining the traditional emblems omit the words, "and
he doubts not that in the glorious morn of the resurrection, his body will
arise and become as incorruptible as his soul." The committee on ritual
reported that these changes brought the monitor in accord with the teach-

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ing of their ritual for the last seven years, and on their recommendation
the resolution was adopted.

The following was referred to the committee on address :

Whereas, The Grand Lodges Cosmos of Chihuahua, Mexico, and the
Grand Lodge of Cuba are composed almost entirely of lodges working the
Scottish Rite, whose ideals and requirements are not similar to those of
this grand lodge, therefore be it

Resolved: i. That recognition of the Grand Lodge Cosmos, of Chi-
huahua, be withdrawn.

2. That recognition of the Grand Lodge of Cuba be withdrawn.

On this resolution, which emanated from the chairman of the com-
mittee on correspondence, the committee on address reported as follows
(adopted) :

We recommend that the resolution offered withdrawing our recogni-
tion of Grand Lodge Cosmos of Chihuahua, offered by Bro. W. H. Sea-
mon, be adopted.

With reference to withdrawal of recognition from the Grand Lodge
Cuba we believe it is best to postpone action at this time in the hope that
we may learn that Cuba is striving to maintain a Masonry patterned after
the principles of our rite.

The grand master (E. A. Cahoon) was happily spared the duty of an-
nouncing any break in the official circle, past or present, of the grand
lodge, during the year.

Numerous dispensations issued permitting joint occupancy of halls
with Odd Fellows, Maccabees, Knights of Pythias, Order of Eastern
Star, Daughters of Rebeckah, Elks, etc., indicate that it is not the usage in
that jurisdiction, for the Order of the Eastern Star to take possession of
lodge rooms without so much as "By your leave."

The grand master properly reprimanded a lodge primarily for open-
ing (we infer on its regular night) and conferring the third degree when
neither the master nor wardens were present, and secondarily for open-
ing the lodge at so late an hour as ten o'clock P. M., which he said (with
doubtful propriety) was as irregular as it would have been to open in ad-
vance of the hour named in the call. It will be seen that questions arising
out of this case became the subject of decisions, of which eleven in all
were reported. We copy in part :

2. Is there any Masonic reason why a public installation should not
be held?

No. Refer to decision of P. G. M. Poe, proceedings 1898, in which he
says "no dispensation is necessary for public installation in a lodge room."

4. A lodge confers the third degree upon a candidate during the
absence of the master and both wardens in violation of Art. No. 8, section

198 APPENDIX— PART I.

No. 2, grand lodge by-laws, the degree being conferred by a past master.
What is the standing of the candidate?

4. The candidate is in good standing and is a Master Mason. This right
cannot be taken from him because of a violation of a grand lodge by-law
by the lodge conferring the degree. The fault was with the lodge and
not with the candidate who knew not the law ; he should not suffer or be
inconvenienced because of the fault of brethren who should have been bet-
ter informed.

5. Is there legally invested in the worshipful master or wardens of a
lodge, the power to appoint a brother who has never been a warden to con-
fer a degree or to sit in the East and perform other duties?

The master or wardens have no such power. No brother who has not
at some time occupied the position of master or warden of a lodge should
be allowed to confer the degrees or to occupy the East during the transac-
tion of business.

6. Can a person who has lost an eye, or a leg, or an arm, receive the
degrees in New Mexico?

No.

7. A member of Hiram Lodge No. 13 dimits, for the purpose of join-
ing a lodge at Parral, Mexico. He later dimits from the Parral Lodge and
expresses his desire to apply again to Hiram Lodge No. 13. Can the ap-
plication be received?

I consider the dimit somewhat irregular in view of the fact that it was
signed by acting officers and that the year of its issue is not given. I also
consider the whole system of Masonic lodges and grand lodges in the Re-
public of Mexico, to be in a sadly disorganized condition, unworthy of rec-
ognition unless rehabilitated at an early date. This I am assured is being
done, and that most Mexican Lodges are making a sincere effort to come
together under one jurisdiction working the York rite. In view of this
fact and that the brother was once a member of Hiram Lodge in good
standing, as evidenced by their having granted him a dimit, I ruled that
he had the right to apply with the dimit in question to any lodge in New
Mexico for membership.

8. A petitioner for the degrees in a New Mexico lodge has previously
been rejected by a lodge in Illinois; perpetual jurisdiction over rejected
material is claimed by the Grand Lodge of Illinois; a waiver of jurisdic-
tion was requested by the New Mexico lodge. This request was refused
by the Illinois lodge. Can his petition be received by the New Mexico
lodge?

No.

Number 2 is in accord with the law and practice in Illinois. No. 4
was approved by the committee on address (and by the grand lodge) much
to our surprise. In his reprimand of Chapman Lodge, the grand master
quotes from the by-laws of the grand lodge, "No lodge shall be opened or
stand open in the absence of the W. M. and the wardens." We agree that
had the lodge been lawfully at labor the brother receiving the third degree
(herein would have been a lawful Master Mason, no matter what irregu-

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larities had occurred in the making. But Chapman Lodge No. 2, was not
opened at all. It could not be opened because some of the essential fac-
tors were wanting, the law providing that it could neither be opened nor
stand open in the absence of the master and wardens. While we hold it to
be impossible that a regular lodge lawfully at labor can confer a degree ac-
cording to the ritual of Masonry without investing the person receiving it
with the status of a lawful brother of that degree, we hold it equally im-
possible for an unauthorized body of even lawful Masons, although meet-
ing in the known premises of the lawful lodge and calling themselves by
its name, to confer any status whatever. This was precisely a case where
healing was applicable. An attempt was made in good faith to invest the
brother with the status of a Master Mason by certain brethren of Chap-
man Lodge, who ignorantly supposed that said lodge was at labor. But in
the absence of its master and wardens Chapman Lodge was not there, and
of course the attempt came to naught. For all practical purposes the
healing was accomplished by the subsequent declaration of the grand lodge
that the brother was a regularly made Master Mason, because the grand
lodge is recognized as the ultimate authority as to the status of Masons
within its territory, and so its declaration fixes that status for the future,
however incorrect it may have been as a statement of pre-existing fact.

No. 5 was disapproved, the committee saying (conclusively, as we
think) :

As to decision five we agree with the grand master that there is no
law on our statute books which specifically vests in the master, or in the
absence of the presiding warden, to call any brother qualified to the East
for conferring degrees, etc., but it is our opinion that the higher law, that
of Masonic custom and usage, as understood and practiced in this jurisdic-
tion, permits the master, or in his absence the presiding warden, to call any
brother to the East, provided always that the proper elected presiding of-
ficer also sit in the East. We therefore recommend that this decision be
not approved.

No. 6 failed of approval because one year before the grand lodge had
unanimously declared that the loss of an eye did not necessarily disqualify.

No. 7 was approved without comment, but No. 8 was approved under
protest :

As to decision eight, we approve the decision, basing the approval as an
act of courtesy to Illinois, which claims perpetual jurisdiction over all re-
jected material, but the Grand Lodge of New Mexico has always claimed
the right to accept any material which has resided in our jurisdiction for
one year; we require, however, our subordinate lodges to learn from an
objecting lodge their reason for rejection before acting upon the petition
and in this connection this committee believes that this grand lodge is
opposed to the theory of perpetual jurisdiction and should place itself on
record in this matter.

We do not object to the protest, and we do commend the Grand Lodge
of New Mexico for being able to see the third side of the question, viz : that

200 APPENDIX — PART I.

whatever may be the law of the jurisdiction as between its own lodges, a
recognition of the fact that the differing regulations of other jurisdictions
must be respected when questions arise between the two, or peace and good
neighborhood are impossible, and that such respect does not involve yield-
ing either our convictions or our laws.

The following report on Mexican Masonry was submitted by Bro. W.
H. Seamon, chairman of the committee on correspondence, and referred
to the committee on grand master's address, who, as we have seen, con-
curred in his recommendations :

There has been very little change in the situation in Mexico, but the
changes made are in the direction of making one grand lodge for the York
Rite, for the entire republic.

In December of 1902, while in the city of Chihuahua, the master of the
York Lodge there, Dr. Swayne, informed me that there was considerable
friction between the York and Scottish rite members of the Grand Lodge
Cosmos, and informed me of a number of serious differences and difficul-
ties experienced as the result of the fact that the Scottish lodges prepon-
derated. He also showed me correspondence, with Brother Young of the
Grand Lodge Valley of Mexico urging the lodge to give up its charter to
Cosmos and accept one from Valley of Mexico, and stated that if the
York Lodges at Chihuahua and Parrel came into Valley of Mexico there
would then be fourteen York lodges and thirteen Scottish lodges in that
body, making it easy for the York to control and they could easily drop
nearly all the Mexican Scottish lodges for non-compliance with laws of
the grand lodge, thereby making Valley of Mexico a York Rite grand
lodge in fact. After consideration I advised Brother Swayne to secure
something like an officiaJ assurance of the representations made, (which
were given by wire on January 8th) and unite with Valley of Mexico,
which advice was followed also by the York lodge at Parral.

I was somewhat dumbfounded when I read the proceedings of the
Grand Lodge Valley of Mexico to find that they claimed thirty-seven
lodges on January 8th. The lodge list was not given, but from the state-
ment made in the printed proceedings — one worked in German, fourteen
in English and twenty-two in Spanish. Those working in English are
said to practice the York rite ; all of the Mexican lodges use the ritual of
the Scottish rite. There was quite an increase in the number of York
Rite lodges and it should not be long before they should be in actual
majority. I consider it highly essential, before recommending Valley of
Mexico for recognition, that the English speaking lodges shall be in ma-
jority and able to fully control the grand lodge, otherwise there is too
much uncertainty concerning the permanence of the practice of the princi-
ples of true Masonry, now so loudly professed by Valley of Mexico.

From the treasurer's report I find that only sixteen lodges paid any-
thing to the grand lodge, of which six were Spanish lodges, four more
than ever before. From observation and information obtained from time
to time while in Mexico, I am convinced that at least fitteen of the Spanish
lodges claimed are conducting their affairs in a very irregular method and
have not held meetings for a period of not less than five years. One of
lodges located at Juarez is said to be working in English, yet • nly one or
two of those claiming to be members of it are able to speak English. I

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have made persistent efforts, on the ground, to learn whether they had
met during the year, and the only information I could get was to the
effect that they never met, that the lodge was only a paper lodge existing
for the purpose of enabling Juarez Mexicans to visit the Masonic lodge
in Texas.

I cannot understand why Valley of Mexico should carry these lodges
on their roll. The only reason that suggests itself is that the Mexican
officials in Valley of Mexico are perpetuating the system used so success-
fully by Canton to control matters by the use of proxies from "paper"
lodges.

I believe I voice the sentiment of all our American grand lodges when
I say that we desire to recognize some Masonic power in Mexico that will
regulate Masonry there in a judicious and dignified manner, particularly if
American, and one that promises to be permanent. I had hoped to be
able at this communication to recommend Valley of Mexico, but I am
net yet satisfied that it is safe to do so. We must remember that we can-
not afford to recommend recognition of a Masonic body which is unlikely
to regulate Masonry according to our standards. It is better to be too
slow than to recognize and afterwards have to withdraw.

At the time you recognized the Grand Lodge Cosmos I represented
that my business affairs would enable me to be in Chihuahua often enough
to observe its workings and that we could withdraw recognition when we
found that their work was not proper. I was not at that time aware of the
difficulties that would likely ensue when the Scottish Blue Lodges were in
a majority over the York Blue Lodges. With these difficulties so strongly
before me I feel we must wait before recognizing Valley of Mexico until
the Americans are in control ; when that occurs then recognition can be
safely granted I believe and I will gladly urge it.

It is only necessary to add that Valley of Mexico is a member of the
congress or bureau, organized by Swiss Alpina Lodge and is thereby in
quasi fraternal relations with all of the Godless Grand Orients and several
Negro grand lodges of the United States. This would not perhaps have
happened had the American lodges been in control of Valley of Mexico.
This incident shows most forcibly the necessity for us to wait until Valley
of Mexico becomes in fact a Grand Lodge of the York rite, controlled by
Americans.

I therefore recommend :

1. That recognition of the Grand Lodge Cosmos of Chihuahua be
withdrawn.

2. That recognition of Grand Lodge Valley of Mexico be deferred un-
til it becomes a Grand Lodge of the York rite, with Americans in control.

A majority of a special committee to consider an amendment to the by-
laws, concerning the ritual, recommended the following, which, after an
unsuccessful attempt to substitute for all after the first sentence a minority
report providing for printing the ritual in cipher and making stringent
provisions for confining their possession to the grand master, grand lec-
turer, deputy grand lecturers and the masters of lodges, was adopted :

-"- APPENDIX — PART I.

The ritual of this grand jurisdiction shall he in charge of a committee
composed of the grand lecturer, who shall be the chaitman, and the dis-
trict deputy grand masters. It shall be the duty of this committee to in-
struct, and see that all the lodges strive to conform their workings to this
ritual, without any deviation. The ritual shall not be changed in any re-
spect except by order of the grand lodge.

The members of this committee shall report to the grand master any
lodge which may be derelict in conforming to the ritual, and the grand
master is empowered to reprimand, or impose such other punishment as
the gravity of the offense may in his judgment justify, upon the master,
officers or members of the offending lodge.

Somehow there seems to be dynamite in all ritualistic questions.
Why should grand lodges go mad when legislating on the subject? Is
there anything so much more heinous in dereliction in conforming to the
ritual than in other forms of unmasonic conduct, that all the safeguards
intended to secure to offenders in every other direction a fair trial ac-
cording to Masonic law, should be thrown down, and that there should be
substituted for the awards and determination of his brethren (who, under
the landmark are the proper and competent judges in all matters of com-
plaint), the summary and unrestricted authority of a single individual who
is at once the judge, jury and lord high executioner?

One new lodge was chartered.

J. C. Slack, of Clayton, was elected grand master; Alpheus A.
Keex, Albuquerque, re-elected grand secretary.

The report on correspondence (105 pp.) is again the work of Bro.
W. H. Seamon, the indefatigable man-of-all-work of the jurisdiction.

Under Cuba we find a brief summary of his reasons for desiring a sev-
erance of fraternal relations with that grand lodge :

We find that Cuba is in fraternal relations with Belgium, France, Por-
tugal and Tunis, all Scottish rite bodies, and not coming up to our ideas
of a belief in God.

They are also in fraternal relations with Penos Grand Lodge of Mex-
ico, and that is notoriously clandestine and irregular, and with the Grand
Lodge of Liberia, composed of negroes.

Under the same head we find the following :

The venerable master was asked what action should be taken when
members of grand lodges, which had not entered into fraternal relations
with Cuba, should present themselves for visitation. He said admit them
as the desire for visitation was equivalent to recognition by the grand
bodies from which they hail.

This calls attention to the looseness of the Masonic behavior of many
American brethren traveling in foreign countries. A traveling Mason
reaching a community in a foreign country, on hearing that there will be
Masonic meeting is usually anxious to attend. He fails to remember the
regulations controlling his relations with foreign bodies and usually throws

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ordinary prudence to the winds in order to visit. He is courteously re-
ceived and the fact that he is a stranger naturally causes him to be the
recipient of many flattering attentions, and when he gets home he considers
it a duty to dilate upon the reception he had, and the greatness of the work
carried on by the Masons he met. He insists that, as he visited them, he
is able to speak as an authority on the question of their regularity. As a
rule he knows nothing about the lodge, and when asked questions he can-
not answer, does not hesitate to answer so as to throw the best light upon
his own misconduct. If he goes to the country to live he is apt to affiliate
with them if the members are congenial. It is in this way that Americans
become connected with clandestine organizations abroad and later raise the
cry for recognition, whereas, if they received their just desserts they would
be expelled by their orginal lodges.

His notice of Illinois is of the proceedings of 1902, wherein he epito-
mizes the address of Grand Master Moulton, and the more salient fea-
tures of the business transacted, and touches some features of the report on
correspondence, with complimentary reference to the writer.

Brother Seamon is opposed to class legislation as to candidates ; in
reply to Brother Carothers, of North Dakota, he says :

In reply we would say that there are no barkeepers members of the
fraternity in New Mexico ; there are perhaps as many as four indirectly
connected with the liquor business. They are pretty good men and are as
good, if not better, than the average Mason of the U. S. We leave the
qualifications for membership with the subordinate lodges, where it per-
fectly belongs ; if we find one of our lodges using material that is not
good we will use the only proper remedy and take away the charters. Our
members are intelligent and as a rule have a pretty fair idea of what con-
stitutes "a good man and true." The fact that a man is in the liquor busi-
ness does not necessarily, in our opinion, disqualify him for membership,
any more than the fact that a man exercises the calling of a preacher, fits
him to enter, for that reason, the fraternity, or our own home.

He thus refers to the action of the Grand Lodge of Wyoming, which
permitted itself to be used to pull Scottish Rite chestnuts out of the fire
by adopting the "Massachusetts Departure."

We think the action a grave mistake. We consider the blue lodge the
acme of Masonry. It is self-sufficient and should not weaken its inde-
pendence by acknowledging the existence of any high degree body.

In his conclusion he speaks of grand lodge recognition :

We are unable to express as clearly the rules which should control
grand lodges in the extension of recognition to other bodies, so well as
have Brother Robbins of Illinois and Brother Jenks, of Wisconsin. They
discuss the question from a rational and jurist's standpoint. We take no
exception to their rules, but we do feel that injustice may sometimes re-
sult from a rigid adherence to them.

We hear a great deal about the universality of Masonry. It is a
delightful theme and yet it leads us into recognition of many Masonic
bodies which have nothing in common with the American rite.

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We believe that recognition is meant to draw into a common brother-
hood all regularly made Masons who have the same aspirations and ideals
we have. We do not believe, however, that bodies which use the rituals
of the Scottish rite for the first three degrees practice our kind of Masonry,
consequently we have lifted up our voice against recognition of these
bodies, ever since we learned the difference between the requirements,
teachings and aspirations of the two rites. We are infavor of overlooking
irregularities in grand lodges where lodges of our rite predominate, pro-
vided they can inspire us with confidence that they will regulate Masonry
within their jurisdiction so that irregularities will cease and things be done
in order, to the credit of the fraternity.

The lodges which formed the grand lodge of 1717 did not possess any
charters from any constituted authority, consequently, measured by the
standards of today, our first regularly constituted authority was formed by
what we would now, at least, call irregular, or clandestine, bodies. The
regularizing of these bodies cured the irregularity. We are of the opinion
that recognition of a grand lodge cures irregularities and we also believe
that it is a wise policy to overlook irregularities in origin, where the body
asking for recognition is discharging its obligations as a grand body.

The "immemorial lodges," as they are frequently called, who partici-
pated in the formation of the first grand lodge had no irregularity that
needed to be cured up to the time the grand lodge system was inaugura-
ted. Under that system, which at that time either embraced all the
Masonry in existence, or subsequently absorbed it all, a warrant from a
grand lodge has been an absolutely essential factor in the existence of a
regular and lawfully constituted lodge.

We hear much about those who insist upon regularity of derivation as
being those who would limit the universality of Masonry and thus destroy
it. We have frequently had occasion to show that the term universality
of Masonry could only have referred to the catholicity of its basis and not
to the distribution, because it was as broadly claimed when there were not
a score of lodges in existence as it is today. The argument that to insist
that Masonry shall be lawful is to destroy the universality of the institu-
tion would still be only the scarecrow that it is today, even if we were to
limit its application to the distribution of Masonry among the peoples of
the earth, because it is only an insignificent minority of all the people
calling themselves Masons that are organized on any other than the grand
lodge plan. One twentieth of all would probably cover all who do not
recognize the possession of a warrant or charter as necessary to the ex-
istence of a lawful lodge.

Much is made by the defenders and promoters of dissent from the
original plan of Masonry of some doubtful precedent of the exercise of
Masonic authority by somebody not in the regular line of dissent, while the
usage of a hundred and eighty years, so general as to be almost entitled to
be called universal, is never referred to by them. A little reflection upon
the significance of this, ought, it seems to us, to leave no brother in doubt

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as to what his duty is, or as to the irrevocable nature of the engagements
on which that duty rests.

Brother Seamon further says:

To those who will insist upon a "clean record" in genealogy we are
compelled now to say that they will not find it in any Mexican grand body
and it is useless to look for it. Some of the Mexican bodies can show a
chart which looks all right, but unfortunately many of the bodies have
assumed the mantles of deceased bodies, which died leaving no heirs.

As most of our readers know, Brother Seamon's knowledge of Mexi-
can Masonry has been derived from study at close range, and no one is
better able to speak by the card as to the bodies claiming jurisdiction in the
Mexican Republic.

NEW SOUTH WALES, 1903.

i6th Annual. Sydney. June ii.

The grand master presided at all save one of the six communications
held during the year. At the special communication for the nomination of
grand officers for the coming year, the deputy grand master, Arthur John
Scott, was in the chair.

The special communication of July 4, 1902, for the installation of offi-
cers, was the only one having a roster of the grand representatives present.
Illinois was not represented.

The grand master after being proclaimed delivered an address which
reflected the solicitude with which the world was watching the course of
King Edward's critical illness, nowhere more marked than in the colonies.
America was also in his thoughts :

By a notable coincidence we meet on a day, the annual recurrence of
which is celebrated with enthusiasm by the citizens of the great United
States of America, where I need scarcely remind you, Freemasonry flour-
ishes on that giant scale which seems appropriate to that great country.

On the 4th July, one hundred and twenty-six years ago, the American
colonies emerged from their childhood, and boldly cut the leading-strings
by signing the Declaration of Independence. Not, however, till they had
exhausted their efforts to otherwise secure autonomous government, which
they would then have been quite content should be under the crown, as
that of Australia now is.

Under what different, happily different circumstances, did we celebrate
in January, 1901, our coming of age. To quote Lord Tennyson again :

206 APPENDIX — PART I.

Britain fought her sons of yore, —
Britain failed ; and nevermore,
Careless of our growing kin,
Shall we sin our fathers' sin ;
Men that in a narrower day —
Unprophetic rulers they —
Drove from out the Mother's nest
That young Eagle of the West,
To forage for herself alone.

Never was the empire so throbbing with the pulse of brotherhood as it
is today. Never were the undeniable claims of Australians to stand side
by side with their kinsfolk in the old land, which in pathetic sentiment,
many among us who never saw it, still call home, more completely ac-
knowledged !

At the quarterly communication of September 10, 1902, the Hon. C. E.
Davis, grand master of Tasmania, was a visitor.

Grand Master Remington announced the death of Alfred Rofe, past
grand master, whom a portion of our brethren will recall as one whom
our grand lodge counted it a privilege to honor as a visitor, and suggested
that his name and that of Past Grand Master Sir Joseph Abbott, who
preceded him into the land of shadows, be added to the memorial tablets
on the walls of the grand lodge.

He foreshadowed a purpose of almost immediately commending to
the board of general purposes the entire list of grand lodges with which
they were in fraternal relation, as there were several which, for various
causes, he thought, should be omitted. We think that in most of the Aus-
tralian grand lodges the anxiety for recognition in their earliest days led
them into fraternal relations with some bodies which most grand lodges
do not touch. Nowhere is the wisdom of making haste slowly more likely
to be finally recognized than in this matter. It is easier to keep out than
to get out when once in. •

At the quarterly of December 10, 1902, the grand master regretted that
an invitation from the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania to take part in the
sesqui-centennial celebration of Washington's initiation did not reach
him until too late to send fraternal greetings by cable, and says :

It is gratifying however that this, one of the oldest and most respected
of American grand lodges, recognizes the autonomy of Masonic govern-
ment in each state of the Australian commonwealth, and does not consider
it sufficient, as a Canadian grand lodge apparently did, to address one
communication to "the Freemasons of Australia," and that only through
one of the younger grand lodges.

In reporting his dispensations the grand master divided them into
classes according to the purpose for which they were granted. One of
these was the "Initiation of a Lczvis," or in other words, the son of a
Mason, who has not attained his majority. Eight of these cases were
reported during the year.

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The board of general purposes reported a letter from a brother en-
closing a clearance (dimit) which had been forwarded to him on his res-
ignation from his lodge, a portion of which had been erased, signed by
the master. The board by resolution directed the master to immediately
issue a clearance to the complaining brother, in accordance with the form
prescribed by the constitution. Failing in this and not giving a satisfactory
reply to the inquiry of the board whether he had done so, he was called
before the board, and stated his reason for not complying with the order
of the board was that the action of the latter was unconstitutional. He
was thereupon admonished by the board, and the hope expressed that he
would issue the clearance in prescribed form.

Instead of doing so he appealed to the grand lodge at its next quar-
terly, when after a full hearing and lengthy discussion, the grand mas-
ter took a hand. On his advice the appellant agreed to issue forthwith
the clearance as required by the constitution; the president of the board
agreed to record in the board minutes the erasure or recission of the ad-
monition ; and the grand lodge unanimously agreed to such a settlement,
to the great satisfaction of the grand master. Each of the four parties
doubtless congratulated himself on having achieved peace with honor, but
we judge that henceforth the masters of lodges will follow the prescribed
form of clearance.

We are glad to record the fact that a motion to rescind the following
resolution, adopted in March, 1899, was after discussion ''lost by an over-
whelming majority:"

"That the practice of attending church services in regalia meets with
the disapproval of this grand lodge, and should be discontinued."

At the quarterly of March 11, 1903, the Rev. N. M. Hennessey, past
provincial grand chaplain of Warwickshire, was formally received as a
visitor.

Grand Master Remington, in speaking of their relations with other
grand lodges, says :

Scotland has, as I hinted in my last address, given a well merited snub
to two or three unquiet spirits who appear (though we have no official
knowledge of their actions) to still dream of setting up some rival juris-
diction here. At the grand lodge which met in Edinburgh on the 6th No-
vember last, the following report by the grand committee, dated 23rd
October, 1902, was read and adopted :

"The committee having carefully considered the subject, felt that the
application could not be entertained, in respect that the Grand Lodge of
Scotland had recognized the Grand Lodge of New South Wales as a sov-
ereign Masonic power, which had absolute control over the affairs of
Freemasonry in that district, and was entitled to administer them abso-
lutely."

208 APPENDIX — PART I.

The board of general purposes reported that the immediate past mas-
ter of No. 129 had on complaint of the master of the lodge, been admon-
ished for having permitted a ballot to be taken on five candidates without
the formal proposal and second required by the constitution. The further
ruling of the board, as follows, shows that the rights of the candidates
were not held to be affected by the irregularity:

2. "That the three brethren who, on that evening were initiated should,
having been so initiated, be permitted to proceed in the other degrees."

3. "That the two candidates who were not present, and consequently
not initiated, should, having been balloted for and accepted, be duly ini-
tiated."

The quarterly communication of June 10, 1903, was the annual or clos-
ing communication of the Masonic year, at which the officers, nominated
at a special communication held on the preceding evening, were elected.

The grand master reported the death of William John Scotford, dis-
trict grand inspector of workings, and mayor of Bathurst, his native city,
at the time of his decease.

Touching the question of eligibility for the chair the grand master
found that the constitution limited the choice of candidates to the master's
chair to wardens of its own lodges (of a year's service,) and therefore
shut out one who had been master of a lodge under another constitution.

He reported that the contributions of the craft of the jurisdiction to
the drought relief fund aggregated $1,250, and laid before them the claims
of the fund for the relief of the sufferers by cyclone at Townsville, in their
sister jurisdiction of Queensland. The grand lodge responded with a do-
nation of $250.

The report of the board of benevolence shows the total cash relief
granted during the year to be $6,533.

J. C. Remington was re-elected grand master; Arthur H. Bray (the
Masonic Hall, Castlereagh St.,) Sydney, remains grand secretary.

The report on correspondence (108 pp.) is a Mosaic, the work of all
the five members, the committee consisting of William H. Shortland,
chairman, Herbert S. Thompson, Thomas L. Rowbotham, Claude Le-
plastrier and John G. Moon. A portion of the notices of the different
jurisdictions under review are not signed at all, but the initials of each
member of the committee are attached to some one or more of them. This
plan of work has the advantage of training more brethren to the business
of reviewing, but it does not give the opportunities for comparative study,
with its consequent greater breadth of view on all subjects as well as of
all subjects which comes to one man who surveys the whole field. This by
no means said in disparagement of the report before us, on the success of
which the whole committee is to be congratulated.

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE. 209

Our proceedings for 1902 fell to Brother Leplastrier, who says of the
volume as a whole :

The report, which has photos of several of the early grand masters, is
one of the most admirable, comprehensive, and valuable this committee has
reviewed, and a perusal of it, as a report of the grand lodge of one only
of the United States of America, will impress every reader with the vast
magnitude and importance of Freemasonry in America.

He notes with pleasure the presence of their representative, Bro. R. T.
Spencer, a pleasure which we of Illinois always share, for he is never
absent. He gives an interesting epitome of the more important acts of
Grand Master Moulton, and quotes from him on the growth and promise
of the jurisdiction, and also his strong views on the increasing publicity
given to Masonic affairs by other than Masonic journals. He culls two
choice extracts from the report of our committee on obituaries and credits
the committee on correspondence with very liberal notice of New South
Wales.

NEW YORK, 1904.

123D Annual. New York. May 3.

The portraits of the year are steel engravings of John H. Anthon,
grand master in 1870 and 1871, and Theodore A. Taylor, the retiring grand
treasurer.

Twelve past grand masters were present. The diplomatic corps mus-
tered sixty-five, among them William D. Critcherson, the representative
of Illinois.

Distinguished visitors were Grand Master John H. Wilkins, of New
Jersey, and suite of fifteen persons, including his deputy, the grand war-
dens, six past grand masters and several officers of the Grand Lodge of
New Jersey, and W. Bro. William H. McMillan, of Pennsylvania. Of
these Grand Master Wilkins and Past Grand Masters Congdon, Mann,
Tilden, Fortmeyer, Moore and Ewan, of New Jersey, addressed the
grand lodge.

A telegram from the grand master (Elbert Crandall) stated that his
physician absolutely forbade his attendance, and the grand lodge was
opened in due form by the deputy grand master, Frank H. Robinson.

The address of Grand Master Crandall, which was presented in his
absence referred tenderly to those who had crossed the Great Divide. The
long roll includes the names of Charles W. Cushman, honorary past

210 APPENDIX — PART I.

grand master, characterized by the grand master as the most widely and
best beloved brother in the jurisdiction; Levi M. Gano, past junior grand
warden; George M. Berry, grand pursuivant; Henry A. Richey, past
junior grand deacon; William R. Brown and Edward Henry Kent,
past grand sword bearers; Franklin S. Stebbins, past grand steward;
Theo. M. Horton, Luca Francia, Daniel M. Van Cott, John Miller
and Edward P. Newcomb, past district deputy grand masters, and seven
other past masters holding semi-official positions.

More than ten thousand names had been added to the roll call of the
fraternity during the year and once only in the history of the grand lodge
had there been as many initiations.

The following explains itself:

It has come to my knowledge that section 42 of the constitution is
often construed as not referring to individual brethren, and I therefore
recommend that this section, in order that it may in letter, as it does in
spirit, accomplish its purpose, be amended by adding after the word
'lodges" the words "or brethren," so that when amended it shall read :

"Sec. 42. The use of any written or printed or written and printed
ritual of work and lectures by lodges or brethren of this jurisdiction is
absolutely prohibited."

The grand master is eloquent and sanguine (but not unduly so) on
the subject of a sanitorium for tuberculosis. He says:

Masonry has joined the world-wide movement to put an end to con-
sumption, the most deadly and most needless scourge with which humanity
is afflicted.

Consumption is an infectious, communicable disease, produced by a
germ, and is quite readily curable if taken in time.

I consider this project of a Masonic Sanatorium for Consumption the
most important and deserving one ever undertaken by the fraternity. It
means the actual saving of lives, protection to the community from the
danger of infection or communication and restoration of the afflicted to
those near and dear to them.

How eloquent would be the grateful appreciation of a consumptive
brother, looking forward only to the dark valley of the shadow of death,
restored to his family as a bread winner and once more permitted to enjoy
the cheerfulness and comfort of his own home.

With 125,000 members on our rolls, and taking each member to repre-
sent five persons in his immediate family, we have more than half a mil-
lion souls directly interested in the grave problem of eradicating this dread
disease.

It is felt that if this matter is properly presented to the craft it will be
not only founded but maintained in a manner worthy of the greatest juris-
diction on the face of the globe, by the voluntary gifts of its members.

At the last annual communication of the grand lodge, I recommended
that a sanitorium be established when a sufficient sum of money had ac-

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crued in the hands of the trustees of the hall and asylum fund. At that
time there were more than $2,000 on hand for this purpose, and since that
time the fund has been steadily increased by contributions, which have
been entirely voluntarily, both from lodges and individual brethren.

Twelve Masonic districts represented by sixty-seven lodges in all sec-
tions of the state and individuals representing all ranks in the craft have
enrolled their names in this charity, and there are today more than $5,000
in the general fund.

No provision having been made for the purchase of land, lodges which
were deeply interested in the speedy accomplishment of this movement
have founded a land fund, and there are several thousand dollars in the
hands of M. W. Edward M. L. Ehlers, grand secretary, as trustee, for the
purchase of land, which, under the terms of the trust, must be transferred
to the grand lodge free and clear of all encumbrances for a Masonic Sana-
torium for Consumptives.

I recommend, therefore, that the grand master be authorized to issue
an official appeal to the brethren in this jurisdiction for voluntary contri-
butions to the general fund, and that as soon as the land is purchased the
necessary consents required by law secured, and the title vested in the trus-
tees of the hall and asylum fund, this worthy and noble charity be at once
inaugurated, the expenditure for maintenance and buildings to be restricted
to the funds now in the hands of the trustees of the hall and asylum fund,
or which may be hereafter received by them for that purpose.

Of the legitimacy of this field as a proper one for charity organized
on a large scale, there can be no division of opinion. It is a field beyond
the reach of average individual or average lodge effort. Ordinary relief
can be secured in any degree in the private home by the expenditure of
money and to the same degree that is found in large eleemosynary institu-
tions with an expenditure of much less money, but the private home cannot
as a rule be converted into a curative institution for the Great White
Plague. For this the sanatorium under expert management is required,
procurable only by the pooling of the means of all.

Referring to the Masonic home, at Utica, the grand master says :

It is generally known to the craft that the accommodations at the
home in Utica are inadequate for the needs of the fraternity. There is a
long waiting list of those who are eligible for admission to the home, and
because of want of accommodation cannot be received and cared for. This
subject has been one of serious and careful consideration by the commit-
tee on hall and asylum fund, and the trustees in conjunction with the
grand lodge officers. Various suggestions have been made as to a method
of increasing the revenue for the purpose of accommodating this long
waiting list. It would seem that the trustees have sufficient funds for the
purpose of constructing addional buildings ; but there is no revenue for
maintenance and support after the buildings shall have been erected. This
is a matter of serious moment to the craft. It should receive very careful
and earnest consideration. The question seems to present itself in two
forms : First, whether the craft is content with the accommodations now
existing, and willing that there shall be this long waiting list, thereby mak-
ing it necessary for a large number of lodges to care for their needy mem-

212 APPENDIX — PART I.

bers, or second, whether by some means, presumably, by increasing the
per capita tax, to create a revenue sufficient to maintain additional accom-
modations, and such as shall be sufficient for all. This is a matter to be
submitted to the lodges, and depends upon their discretion and action. The
grand master lias no recommendation to make in the premises.

The report of the superintendent shows that the average number of
inmates of the home last year was 300 ; the per capita cost of maintenance,
$199.10, against $188.66 for the year preceding. In this connection, he says:

As the per capita cost is a very important factor, we desire at this
juncture of affairs to express the opinion that we have seen our lowest
per capita cost of maintenance. While the expenditures in certain lines
must inevitably increase, nevertheless we regard a ratio of $200 to $210
as a fair estimate, predicated on the present plant, exclusive of extraor-
dinary expenses which are apt to occur.

The report of the grand historian, Edwin A. Quick, covers 105 pages
of most interesting matter, an amount of matter of a kind to make work
slow, and indicating therefore that he had devoted much time to the du-
ties of his office.

His sketch of Union Lodge No. 45, of Lima, is illustrated with a half-
tone portrait of Alaxson Brown, the first Mason made in the lodge and
for twenty-five years master thereof, and with an interior view of the
lodge room in the upper story of the house of Ashael Warner, the first
junior warden of Unity Lodge, constructed in 1810 for Trinity Mark
Lodge No. 50, and afterward used by Unity Lodge. The contrast between
it and the interior views of the spacious and elegant lodge room of Rich-
mond Lodge No. 66, at Port Richmond, Staten Island, which accompany
the sketch of the latter, is very striking and instructive.

The report of the Masonic Board of Relief of New York City, shows
disbursements amounting to $2,069.24 during the year. The report says :

We are endeavoring to interest the lodges in our efforts to secure
employment for those who apply to us, and are under many obligations to
those who have assisted us in that direction. We believe that the greatest
charity we can render is to secure employment for applicants. Special ef-
forts are being put forth in that direction, and hopes are entertained that
we may enlist enough of our lodges in this work as to warrant us in es-
tablishing a labor bureau where Masonic employers and employees may re-
ceive prompt attention.

The Brooklyn Masonic Guild reports encouraging progress in the
raising of funds, indicating a reasonable prospect that the undertaking of
building a temple adequate to the needs of the borough will be consum-
mated in the near future.

The Grand Lodge Valle de Mexico was recognized on the recom-
mendation" of the committee on foreign correspondence, who ''concede the
regularity of its formation and conformity to Masonic usage and pro-
cedure." Inasmuch as the report is signed by all the members of the com-

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mittee, including Bro. Emil Frexkel, we infer that some new light had
dawned upon him after he wrote the short notice of "'The Grand Lodges
of Mexico," published elsewhere in the volume, in which he says, "it is
practically impossible to form any idea as to the regularity of any of the
Mexican bodies named above or otherwise" (the Grand Lodge Valle de
Mexico was not among those named.) The italics are ours. Recognition
of the Grand Lodge of Cosmos, State of Chihuahua was declined because
the committee did not understand that it is independent of the control of
the Supreme Council, A. A. S. R., and the Grand Orient D'Haiti suffered
a similar rebuff because the committee fijid that it is subject to the con-
trol of a council of administration of the supreme council of that rite.

The committee reported that the protests of the "Grand Lodge of
Western Australia" of which John W. Smythe is grand secretary against
the regularity of the grand lodge of the same name, of which J. W.
Hackett is grand master, and which has been recognized by the Grand
Lodge of New York, required no action by the grand lodge.

The following resolution was referred to the committee on jurispru-
dence :

Resolved, That the decision of the M. W. John Stewart affirmed by the
grand lodge (found at page 225, proceedings 1902,) be amended so as to
read that jurisdiction in case of persons rejected in other grand lodge
jurisdictions and now resident in this state shall terminate in five years.

The resolution was not reached by the committee and it will probably
be reported upon next year.

In 1896 the Grand Lodge of New York abandoned the usage of per-
petual jurisdiction over rejected material and fixed the limit of its dura-
tion at one year. In applying this change of the constitution the then
grand master, John Stewart, addressed a communication to all the lodges
(October 15, 1896), expressing the view that it was "only fair, and in that
spirit of comity which should exist between grand lodges, to respect the
laws of each other," and ruled that in all cases of applicants for initiation
in New York lodges, who had been rejected in other jurisdictions in fra-
ternal relations with them, that the law in such rejecting jurisdiction
should be complied with before the candidate could be initiated in any
New York lodge. This was the most important and the most salutary
contribution to the heated discussion then raging over the question whether
a jurisdiction could give its laws extra territorial force," because it re-
called attention to the axiomatic obligation which underlies and makes
possible all fraternal relations among a plurality of sovereign grand lodges,
and, indeed, upon which depends the value of the Masonic status of the
individual the moment he goes beyond the confines of his own lodge, viz. :
the obligation of every regular Masonic body to give full faith and credit
to the Masonic acts of every other Masonic body recognized by it as regu-

214 APPENDIX — PART I

lar, such acts being in conformity with the laws of jurisdiction wherein
they are done.

This is fundamental, and to depart from it either by lodges or grand
lodges is to invoke Masonic chaos.

The following from the report of the commission of appeals, chron-
icles the final logical outcome of a claim on the part of any person or "as-
sociation of persons of whatever degree or name, other than lodges of
Free and Accepted Masons, and the grand lodges duly constituted by the
representatives of such lodges" (to borrow the language of the resolution
of the Grand Lodge of Illinois, in 1884, denouncing as clandestine the
'Egyptian Masonic Rite of Memphis,' of which Bro. Darius Wilson is
grand master,") to "the authority under any circumstances or conditions
to confer the degrees of Symbolic or Craft Masonry :"

In the matter of the appeal of Darius Wilson in re Hersch vs. Wilson.
Darius Wilson, a member of Yonnondio Lodge No. 163, appeals from the
decision of trial commissioners apointed by the grand master to try charges
preferred by Bro. Isaac Hersch against Darius Wilson, of Yonnondio
Lodge, for immoral and unmasonic conduct, in that he did, in a clandestine
and unlawful manner, assist in the ceremony of conferring the degrees of
Masonry, and did, in the city of New York, visit a meeting of a clandestine
lodge, knowing said lodge and meetings to be clandestine.

A careful review of the testimony in this case has convinced the com-
missioners that the evidence has fully sustained the charges beyond a
reasonable doubt.

It seems, as established by credible and uncontradicted witnesses, that
the defendant had an office at No. 41 W. 24th Street, New York City, for
the practice of medicine, and that he there clandestinely conferred degrees
in Masonry. It is in evidence that a caller upon the defendant at his said
office there filled out an application for admission to Masonry, and there-
after, pursuant to a letter of request to do so, again called there, and having
first paid to the defendant fifteen dollars, received what purported to be
the three degrees of Masonry, in the conferring of which the defendant
acted as senior deacon and an alleged representative of the Grand Lodge
of Ohio as master. The defendant claimed to confer these degrees pursuant
to authority granted by a grand master of Masons in Ohio, one Justin
Pinney, and in defendant's rooms were many circulars offering to make
the readers thereof Masons and put them in possession of all the secrets
necessary to them to gain admission into Masonic lodges throughout the
world. These circulars, emanating from defendant's office, were sent broad-
cast through the city of New York. The defendant stated that those in-
terested in thus starting lodges in New York not under the jurisdiction
of the grand lodge of this state were his friends, and he was in sympathy
with them. It is also in evidence from admissions of the defendant that
he did attend a clandestine meeting of a lodge at No. 100 W. 24th Street,
rot being under the authority of the Grand Lodge of the State of New
York, and that those who called at his office in response to the above-men-
tioned circulars he referred to one Paget, who, he averred, was the deputy
in this city for the grand master of Ohio. Defendant further admitted that
he had made many so-called charter members of the Consistory and Shrine,
and had received twenty dollars for each initiation.

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Defendant also admitted that he was at No. ioo West 24th Street,
where said lodge, purporting to be under the jurisdiction of Ohio, con-
vened every Friday evening, and there conferred these higher degrees in
Masonry at least once a month. The facts and circumstances before us in
this case point but one way, and that is that the defendant is guilty of the
charges beyond any reasonable doubt ; that he has made a busines of sell-
ing what purported to be degrees to any applicant who was willing to pay
for them, and in consequence thereof he should be expelled from his lodge,
and from all the rights and privileges of Masonry forever, and pay the
sum of one hundred and fifty-three dollars ($153), the amount of the ex-
penses of his trial.

The grand lodge chartered four new lodges ; directed the grand master
to issue an official appeal to the craft of the jurisdiction for voluntary
contributions to the fund for the Masonic Sanitorium for Consumptives,
and submitted to the lodges for their approval a levy of fifty cents per
capita, to be devoted exclusively to the maintenance of the Masonic home
at Utica.

Frank H. Robinson, of Hornellsville, was elected grand master; Ed-
ward M. L. Ehlers, New York, re-elected grand secretary.

The report on correspondence (198 pp.) was presented by the long-
time chairman of the committee, Past Grand Master Jesse B. Anthony,
who reviews the English-speaking grand lodges and Costa Rica ; the
translations and reviews of other governing bodies are, as they have been
for some years, the work of Bro. Emil Frankel, of the committee.

Brother Anthony's notice of Illinois is of the year 1903, the closing
year of the administration of Grand Master Moulton, whose address,
says the reviewer, was commensurate with the extent of the jurisdiction,
and exemplified the labors of an able and efficient official. He gives a
close epitome of the address and of the business of the session, compli-
menting very highly the oration of Brother McFatrich and also his ad-
dress at the laying of the corner-stone of the home, at Sullivan.

Referring to our report, he says :

While we cannot follow him in all things, nevertheless it is pleasing
to us to find that generally we are in accord. We believe that Freemasonry
ought not to be limited to those bodies that can trace their origin to the
British Isles. Hence, in foreign countries where the A. A. Scottish Rite
is the dominant factor, and grand lodges are formed of lodges conferring
the three degrees of Symbolic Masonry — having exclusive authority — free
from the control of the supreme council, or any other powers however
named, we entertain the opinon that the good of the craft and the univer-
sality of Freemasonry warrant official relations with such grand bodies.

He quotes, with no doubt of their correctness, our remarks under Ala-
bama, sustaining the right of a lodge to receive, or to decline to entertain,
as it chooses, a petition for the degrees. We desire here to thank Brother
Anthony in advance for the use we propose to make of his valuable sta-
tistical tables, transferring them, as we have done for some years, to our
own pages.

216 APPENDIX — PART I.

NORTH CAROLINA, 1904.

117TH Annual. Raliegh. June 12.

The portraits of the year are of H. I. "Clark, the retiring grand master,
and Thomas J. Reed, senior grand deacon, whose untimely death at forty-
three caused the only hreak in the past or present official circle occurring
during the year.

Eight past grand masters were present and twenty- four jurisdictions
were represented in the diplomatic corps, Illinois not among them.

Grand Master Clark reports eleven decisions, a part of which follows :

I. Can application for degrees be received by a lodge from a party
who is so deaf that he has to use an ear trumpet?

No.

5. Is it obligatory to display charter in lodge?

No. The proper place is in the lodge room, where it should be
framed and hung upon the walls, but the law does not require it to be
kept there.

7. Can a petition be received from a party who is under age, but
will become of age before the petition is acted upon?

No. Let him wait with patience til he is of "lawful age and prop-
erly vouched for."

8. Can charges be preferred against a brother for retailing whisky?

No. The simple fact of a Mason selling whisky is no Masonic
crime and so long as he does not fracture the civil or Masonic law he is
guilty of no offense. It is to be observed, though, that Masonry dis-
countenances the whisky traffic, and stands boldly for sobriety and temper-
ance.

9. Can the degrees be conferred upon more than one candidate at the
same time?

But one candidate can be received and obligated at a time. The ex-
planatory lectures can be given to any number of candidates.

II. A Master Mason, expelled from B lodge, removes into the juris-
diction of C lodge; to which lodge shall he apply for reinstatement?

B lodge having imposed the penalty, according to Masonic law, he
must apply to B lodge for relief.

Commenting on No. i, the jurisprudence committee are of the safe
opinion that while the use of an ear trumpet would not be conclusive
evidence, it would raise a strong presumption of disqualification. We
agree with the committee that if the applicant could receive the words
according to the ancient usages of the craft, he could pass muster, No. 5

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did not command approval, the committee holding "that when the lodge
is opened the charter must be present, preferably to be displayed as in-
dicated by the grand master," and add that when the lodge is not open
it may be kept in any safe place, citing to a certain section of the code in
support of their position. It may not be superfluous to re-state our fre-
quently expressed opinion, in accord with our grand lodge, that the
absence of the parchment by no means affects the validity of the proceed-
ings. No. 8, which was approved, became the storm center when the
report of the committee came up for action. A resolution was offered
and discussed proposing to add to the committee's approving report the
words, "That this grand lodge hereafter construes the law, that one who
engages in the saloon business for the retailing of liquor is guilty of a
Masonic offence." As a substitute for this the following was offered,
but was laid on the table :

Resolved, That the manufacture, sale, purchase or use as a beverage
of spirituous, vinous or malt liquors is a Masonic offence, and should be
dealt with by the subordinate lodges.

On the following day the subject was taken from the table and the
following, introduced as a substitute, was adopted :

Resolved, That no man shall be eligible to membership in this order
who is engaged in the manufacture of intoxicating liquors or the whole-
sale or retail liquor business, and the same be referred to the subordi-
nate lodges, and the same shall be the law of this grand lodge as soon
as a majority of the subordinate lodges vote for this resolution.

The grand master reported the appointment of Bro. J. B. McFat-
rich as the representative of North Carolina near our grand lodge to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of the lamented Pace.

In speaking of the work the grand master incidentally touches the
question of cipher rituals.

Several reports have come to me that cipher work was being used
extensively in some parts of the jurisdiction. I have given the lecturers
positive instructions to report to me any Mason or lodge using such
work, and the full power of this office would be used to put a stop to it.
In only two instances has proper information been furnished me upon
which to act, and in both of these, the parties very willingly destroyed
their books.

To extend the usefulness of the Oxford Orphan Asylum and to aid
in the efforts to build the projected temple, the grand master recom-
mended an increase of the per capita tax from sixty cents to one dollar.
That it will come to this complexion at an early day if the grand lodge
goes on with the temple project, there can be little doubt, but the finance
committee thought it better to make the raise piecemeal and recom-
mended that it be raised only to* seventy-five cents at present, and this
was agreed to.

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There are already some signs of friction as of rival interests between
the orphanage and the temple. The directors of the asylum say :

We regret to state that of the amount appropriated by your grand
body for the current year, we have received $750 only, leaving $2,250
and the special apropriation of $500 unpaid. Our treasurer applied to
the grand treasurer for the money and was given a check for $750, be-
ing informed that $2,500 had been paid to the temple committee, which
left the grand treasurer without funds. We ask you to instruct the
grand treasurer to liquidate the appropriation to the asylum before pay-
ing money to the temple committee.

The report of the treasurer of the asylum makes the shortage still
greater, as he includes a special fund not mentioned by the directors.
He says :

Although the grand lodge appropriated $3,000 towards the support
of the asylum, besides a special fund of $500, I have received but $750
of the $3,500, the assistant grand treasurer informing me that he had
paid $2,500 to the temple committee and having no funds to pay the
asylum.

The superintendent of the asylum figures the per capita cost of
maintenance (annual) at $54.65.

In the palmly days of the empire all roads led to Rome. Just now with
our North Carolina brethren, all roads lead to the Temple with a big T.
That which runs through the office of the grand secretary (Johx C.
Drewry) is suffused with a golden glow from the edifice seen in the
mirage. He says :

I am inclined to believe that this rapid and healthy increase is the
result of the movement taken by the grand lodge to build a Masonic
temple. This movement to build a magnificent temple has attracted the
attention of the best business men in our state, and they are led to see
the force and virtue and solidity of Freemasonry. The experience in
every grand jurisdiction where a temple has been built is that a rapid
increase in membership and in usefulness has followed the completion
of such an enterprise, and it is believed that a similar result will be ex-
perienced here with the building of our temple. Already we can see the
good which is beginning to manifest itself.

We judge from this, in line with the prevailing tone, that our brethren
there will only be satisfied when they have bought their own experience.

The prosperity revealed by the grand secretary's report seems to have
been the impulse of an eruption on somewhat new lines, and the following
was adopted :

Whereas, We note by the grand secretary's report that we have had
the most prosperous year in the history of our order; and

Whereas, Charity is one of the cardinal principles of Masonry; and

Whereas, We feel that we should have an institution for the care of
our aged and indigent brethren ; therefore be it,

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Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed by this grand lodge to
inquire into the advisability and expediency of establishing such an institu-
tion in the near future, and said committee be instructed to report at the
next session of this grand body.

The tabling of the following indicates that North Carolina shares the
Illinois view that so long as a lodge is in possession of an unrevoked char-
ter it cannot be excluded from the floor of the grand lodge of which it is an
integral part :

Resolved, That hereafter the grand secretary be required to notify all
secretaries of subordinate lodges that unless the returns of such lodges are
made up according to law, i. c, with seal of lodge attached, dated, and
signed by the secretary, such lodges, with such deficient returns, cannot be
entitled to representation.

The grand lodge chartered seven new lodges and continued one under
dispensation ; waived its hands in "fraternal greeting and cordial good
wishes" to the Masons of Costa Rica, — which was a safe thing to do if there
are any there, — but postponed the question of formal recognition of the
alleged grand lodge of that name until next year; and established fraternal
relations with the Grand Lodge of Western Australia, (presumably the body
of which J. W. Hackett is grand master), although the record is silent on
that point.

W. S. Liddell, of Charlotte, was elected grand master: John C.
Drewry, Raleigh, re-elected grand secretary.

The report on correspondence (158 pp.), the eighth from the same
hand, is by Bro. John A. Collins, whose work we have learned to ap-
proach each year with increasing pleasurable anticipations. Conservative,
clear-headed, courteous, he is neither cowed nor cajoled by majorities when
his convictions are at stake, nor wobbly with the passing fashions of the
hour. Happy is the jurisdiction whose craft has so steadfast a watch in its
main-top.

He gives five pages to an examination of our proceedings for 1903,
which shows careful and appreciative reading of and between the lines. To
him Grand Master Moulton's address gives ample evidence that he was
alert, courageous and faithful. He credits him with having rendered
signal service to the fraternity by his vigorous resistance to the invasion of
the jurisdiction by the agents of Pinney, the grand master of the spurious
grand lodge of Ohio. Generous space is given to the history and interests
of the Masonic Home, and appreciative notice is taken of the work of this
committee. Referring to the anti-cipher legislation of Tennessee, he gives
it hearty personal approval, and in answer to an implied inquiry says the
North Carolina law "simply recites that the use of ciphers is contrary to the
principles and teachings of the craft and 'cannot be sanctioned by this grand
lodge.' ".

220 APPENDIX — PART I.

NOVA SCOTIA, 1903.

38TH Annual. Halifax. June 10.

This volume has for its frontispiece a full length portrait of the re-
tiring grand master, Luther B. Archibald, in the full regalia of his office.

Three past grand masters were present and the diplomatic corps num-
bered thirty-four, among them M. W. Theodore A. Cossmann, the repre-
sentative of Illinois.

Of those who had passed "within the veil'' during the year five were
members of the grand lodge, but no break had occurred in the official or
past official circle.

Announcing that the custom of having a public procession to church
immediately after opening had been dispensed with this year, and substi-
tuted therefor a service in the evening at St. Paul's Church, which the
grand lodge would attend without regalia, Grand Master Archibald
naively says :

While I think a public procession of grand lodge in regalia to attend
divine service may be an advantage to a local lodge in the rural districts,
I am not sure that in this city, owing to the few, outside of the officers and
prominent members, who take part in it, that it is calculated to impress
the public with our rank and importance as a society.

His idea that church-going in regalia might be a good advertisement
in the rural districts was emphasized by the granting of several dispensa-
tions for that purpose.

Among the other dispensations reported was one to permit a lodge to
return (without ballot) the petition of a candidate found to be physically
ineligible. In Illinois the law provides for such return without a dis-
pensation.

Among the by-laws submitted to him and approved, in two instances
provision was made for exemption from dues (except the per capita tax
imposed by the grand lodge) of such as have been members in good stand-
ing for twenty-five years. In one case this exemption was made contingent
on the request of the member to be so continued in good standing.

No decisions were reported, the questions submitted being answered
by a reference to the different clauses of the constitution that had been
overlooked. The committee on address went through the form of approv-
ing them at a venture — and doubtless there was no hazard.

The following was discussed at length and finally adopted :

That whereas, in the opinion of this grand lodge it is advisable that
steps should be taken at this communication to insure a greater uniformity
in the ritualistic work among the subordinate lodges; and

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE. 221

Whereas, it is neither the desire nor the intention of grand lodge to
interfere with the special privileges granted to certain lodges now working
under the jurisdiction of this grand lodge; now therefore be it

Resolved, That a committee of three members of this grand lodge be
appointed by the grand master to determine the work to be adopted and
practiced by subordinate lodges, which shall be strictly York Rite work,
and that the work so agreed upon shall be communicated to the grand lec-
turer, and shall be by him communicated to the various subordinate lodges
as opportunity may permit. The work so adopted to constitute the ritu-
alistic work of this jurisdiction. It being, however, distinctly understood
that the several lodges entitled under their charters, or by special permis-
sion heretofore given by this grand lodge to use what is known as the
English work, i. c, the work authorized by the Grand Lodge of England
shall not be affected by this resolution.

The work agreed upon by this committee shall not be used until it
has been exemplified before grand lodge and approved by it.

Last year the grand master ruled that the provision of their constitu-
tion that "a brother affiliating from another grand lodge jurisdiction need
not produce a dimit" was not intended to apply to a member of the Royal
Standard Lodge working in Halifax under the registry of the Grand Lodge
of England. The subject was sent to a special committee of three to re-
port this year.

The minutes thus explain the situation :

The committee consisted of M. W. Brethren Flint, Cossmann and Mac-
Coy. Brother Flint being out of the jurisdiction the entire year, no meet-
ing of the committee, as a whole, took place, and Brethren Cossmann and
MacCoy failing to agree on a joint report, submitted individual reports.

Both reports are strong papers. The decision grew out of the desire
of a member of Royal Standard Lodge, holding (in Halifax) under the
Grand Lodge of England (but restricted as to material to those employed
in the imperial service,) to join a lodge in that city under the jurisdiction
of the Grand Lodge of Nova Scotia.

Brother MacCoy's contention was that in this instance the brother
would be affiliating from another grand lodge jurisdiction as much as
though his lodge were located in Canada or Maine. Brother Cossmann
held that the intention of the constitutional provision quoted was to permit
those whose lodges were elsewhere, but whose business engagements kept
them, sometimes for long periods in Nova Scotia, to make for themselves
a Masonic home there without severing their connection with their home
lodges, which was precisely in the line of Grand Master Treneman's rul-
ing which he of course sustained. Granted that this was the intention
would of course be simply to re-state Brother Trenaman's ruling, and
Brother Cossmann's argument would be conclusive. But as a naked ques-
tion of the letter of the law, Brother MacCoy seems to us to have the bet-
ter of the argument.

222 APPENDIX — PART I.

Reading between the lines, we doubt not that sentiment weighed largely
in the vote by which Brother Trenaman's ruling was sustained, as we
can readily appreciate the disinclination to put into bald words the admis-
sion that the Grand Lodge of England has, through Royal Standard Lodge,
an absolute jurisdiction (of a limited sort) within the territorial jurisdic-
tion of the Grand Lodge of Nova Scotia, but yet this is just what the
honey-toned toleration of that lodge by the Nova Scotia Masonic authori-
ties has been for years conceding. The end, however, is not yet, as will be
seen by the following minutes :

These two reports having been received and read a very animated
discussion ensued, taken part in by Brethren Cossman, MacCoy, Trenaman,
Macdonald, Campbell and several others.

A vote being taken, Brother Cossmann's report was adopted, thus
confirming the decision of M. W. Bro. Trenaman, as reported in proceed-
ings of 1902, page 26.

M. W. Bro. MacCoy gave notice of motion for reconsideration at the
next annual communication of grand lodge.

The grand lodge chartered one new lodge ; formally received Bro.
Benjamin Allen, deputy grand master of Canada, and Bro. Roderick
McNeil, past grand master of Prince Edward Island, as visitors ; de-
volved the work of reviewing the proceedings of other grand lodges on the
grand secretary, adding $200 to his salary in part payment for the labor
involved in his new duty ; ordered Union Lodge No. 18, of Halifax,
(composed exclusively of colored members,) now fallen into such de-
cadence that a quorum could not be obtained to elect officers, to be sum-
moned to show cause at the next annual communication, why its charter
should not be surrendered ; voted to meet next year at Sydney, C. B. ; and
properly defeated the following proposition to trench upon what is and
of right ought to be the exclusive domain of the lodges interested :

"That from and after this date no lodge in this jurisdiction shall be
permitted to confer degrees at the request of another lodge, unless such
request is transmitted through the grand secretary.

"The same course to be pursued in applying for a waiver of jurisdic-
tion."

The Hon. William Ross, M. P., was elected grand master; Thomas
Mowbray, re-elected grand secretary, both of Halifax.

The report on correspondence (167 pp.) we take to be wholly the
work of Grand Secretary Thomas Mowbray. His is no 'prentice hand, as
he has been doing considerable helping out in the reviewing line under
the old system of dividing the work. Without any disparagement of the
work and the ability of the Nova Scotia contributions to this department
of Masonic labor, we may congratulate that grand lodge on the gain
which comes of having one pair of eyes survey the whole field.

The Illinois proceedings for 1902 receive careful and fraternal con-
sideration.

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE. 223

OHIO, 1903.

94TH Annual. Dayton. October 28.

Fourteen past grand masters and the representatives of thirty juris-
dictions graced the grand lodge with their presence. The envoy of Illi-
nois was absent. 1

The grand master, William A. Belt, (whose portrait — that of an un-
usually fine face — makes the frontispiece of the Ohio volume) poetically
makes death the angel of peace who whispers the password in our ears as
we pass within the veil, says that not one of those whose passing the year
he has chronicled had served the grand lodge as a grand officer.

His report of dispensations issued discloses the fact that Ohio is one
of the jurisdictions in which the authority of the grand master is neces-
sary to permit a lodge to move into a new hall.

He presented requests for fraternal recognition from the grand lodges
of Costa Rica and Valle de Mexico, and the Grand Orient of the Blue
Rite, of the Argentine Republic. Diligent efforts had been vainly made to
secure from the grand secretary something further relative to the last
named body. No report, therefore, was had with reference to it, but the
committee (correspondence) recommended that the applications of the
other two, and of the Grand Lodge Ignacio Ramirez, of Mexico, be held
for further information.

The misfortunes of brethren dimitting to help start a new lodge, or
to transfer their membership on moving their residence, and then encoun-
tering the blackball at both ends of the line, weighed upon the grand
master until he conceived the idea of having two kinds of dimit — the or-
dinary dimit, and what he calls the "time dimit ;" the latter to serve the
purpose of accompanying a petition for affiliation, and containing a pro-
visional clause that if for any reason the holder does not deposit it with
some regularly constituted lodge and become a member thereof within the
specified "time," and the issuing lodge is so notified, then his membership
continues with the latter. The subject went over for a year on the rec-
ommendation of the committee on jurisprudence, who say:

We are of the opinion that the subject is of such general interest to
Ohio Masons, and that the recommendation contemplates the introduction
of a policy so new and important that the matter should not be acted upon
at this session of the grand lodge, and we recommend that this subject be
postponed for action until the next annual communication, and that in the
meantime the brethren give the subject such thought as its importance
merits.

The grand master reports that many lodges have their old by-laws in
force giving to members who pay dues a prescribed number of years, fu-

224 APPENDIX— PART I.

ture exemption, and some give exempt inn by the payment of a lump sum,
in spite of the law enacted by the grand lodge a few years ago, putting an
end to honorary membership. Of his recommendation that the proper
committee make the law more clear, the law committee say :

I f this present committee were masters of all the art and knowledge
of language, it could not make it plainer. We therefore recommend that
all our good brethren read our proceedings a little more, and write the
grand master a little less.

He recommends that all the lodges "clean up their rolls" the coming
year, which means that an effort be made to get those under suspension
to pay up their arrearanges, which failing, those who are in arrears more
than two years and are able to pay, be given the last turn of the fraternal
thumbscrew — expelled. This had brought many again into good standing,
"and financially was quite profitable to those of the lodges that undertook
it." The italics are ours. The law committee seconded his recommenda-
tion and the grand lodge concurred. This will not only clean up the
rolls, but will also clean out some guarantees involved when the brethren
were made Masons.

He recommended that the situation respecting bodily qualifications be
"clarified," existing decisions in the face of the resolution of 1898, leaving
the grand master in doubt and the lodges mixed. The committee thought
the resolution referred to should be modified, and the following was
adopted :

Resolved] That a candidate for the degree of Entered Apprentice
should be able physically, as well as intellectually, of himself, and without
exterior aid or assitance from another, to receive and impart all the es-
sentials for Masonic recognition.

Not the least valuable feature of this deliverance is making it show
on its face that the law refers only to initiation.

Eight decisions were reported, some of them the following :

1. Held, that a lodge should return fees to candidates for degrees they
are prevented from receiving because of blackballs cast or objections filed.

2. Held, that the Entered Apprentice lodge and Fellow Craft lodge
can be opened more than once for such work as is proper to be done by
either on a stated meeting night, provided that the Master Mason lodge
had not be enclosed.

3. Held, that where a brother is summoned for trial in a lodge in
whose territory he resides, and to which he does not belong, the lodge must
be lawfully satisfied that he is a Mason before permitting him to enter the
lodge for trial.

8. Held, that any correspondence necessary between any lodge in this
jurisdiction and any lodge in any other jurisdiction concerning candidates
for degrees or applications for membership must pass through the hands
of the grand master.

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE. 22o

Number i is a lesson in elementary honesty which might well be ex-
tended to include all cases where the candidate fails to receive what he
has paid for, whether the cause lies with the lodge or with him. We see
no reason for the proviso in No. 2. No. 3 ought to have gone without
saying, but it seems that somebody "wanted to know" you know.

Referring to No. 8, we presume the next sprout from this root will be
a decision that all correspondence between individual Masons must pass
under executive surveilance. To put it bluntly, as it deserves, so long as
no law is broken it is none of the grand master's business what passes be-
tween lodges either in or outside of the jurisdiction. Neither the law
committee nor the grand lodge, however, shared this opinion of ours, and
this and all the other decisions were declared to be in accordance with
Masonic law.

The report of the grand secretary (J. H. Bromwell) shows that the
year had been a record-breaker, the gain being above the high-water mark
of last year, and that every section of the state had shared in the general
prosperity.

The following "indicates increasing care of what a few years ago were
reported as lying around so loosely as scarcely to merit the appellation of
"hidden things :"

"Resolved, That any member of the fraternity who shall disseminate,
use, or be in possession of the ritual contrary to the usages of the frater-
nity, the resolutions of the grand lodge, or the directions of the grand
master shall be guilty of unmasonic conduct, and subject to Masonic dis-
cipline ; if a master of a lodge or an officer of the grand lodge, he shall be
deposed from his position." (Adopted.)

The following, from the committee on correspondence, was adopted :

Whereas, The M. W. Grand Lodge Alpina, of Switzerland, continues
its fraternization with the Grand Orient of France, with which no regular
English-speaking grand lodge holds fraternal relations ; and

Whereas, Upon the recommendation and suggestion of said Grand
Orient of France a so-called International Masonic Congress was held by
and under the auspices of the Grand Lodge Alpina, at Geneva, Switzer-
land ; and

Whereas, At said so-called congress the representatives of the Colored
Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia, the pretended Worthington
(Ohio) Grand Lodge, and a pretended Supreme Council of Ohio, with
other clandestine or unrecognized grand bodies, were permitted to be
present ; and

Whereas, Said Grand Lodge Alpina admits in its report a knowledge
that the Grand Lodge of Ohio does not recognize the said Grand Orient
of France, and that our said Grand Lodge of Ohio holds the other bodies
named to be irregular, unmasonic, or clandestine,

Resolved, That the grand representative of the Grand Lodge Alpina,
of Switzerland, near this grand lodge be, and he is hereby, instructed to

226 APPENDIX — PART I.

officially inform said Grand Lodge Alpina that if it continues its affiliation
with the Grand Orient of France and its fraternization with the clandestine
and irregular bodies named herein, this M. \Y. grand lodge will withdraw
its official recognition from said Grand Lodge Alpina.

Next !

The grand lodge chartered three new lodges ; so amended its law
that the absolute jurisdiction of a lodge over its unfinished work (one de-
gree having been conferred) shall terminate at the end of three years;
selected Toledo as its next place of meeting, and supplemented its cus-
tomary order for a jewel for the retiring grand master by the following
merited testimonial to "the noblest Roman of them all :"

Past Grand Master Reuben C. Lemmon having had the misfortune to
have had stolen from him the past grand master's jewel presented to him
by this grand lodge ; therefore, be it

Resolved, That as a token of appreciation of the service rendered by
Judge Lemmon as the chairman of the committee on jurisprudence for
nearly a quarter of a century, the grand lodge authorize the committee on
past grand masters' jewels to procure a duplicate of the jewel stolen, and
direct the grand secretary to present the same to M. W. Bro. Lemmon.

O. P. Sperra, of Ravenna, was elected grand master ; Jacob H. Brom-
well, Cincinnati, re-elected grand secretary.

The report on correspondence (325 pp.), supplemented by an eleven-
page subject index, is the handiwork of the distinguished reviewer, Past
Grand Master William M. Cunningham, who has so long reflected lustre
upon his grand lodge in this department of labor. He continues his recent
custom of opening his paper with comments on important topics. This
year it is the landmarks, to which subject William James Hicham con-
tributes a letter, and in it this definition of the term :

My idea of an ancient landmark is a rule or usage of the premier
grand lodge which cannot be abrogated, without cutting off the offending
body from the universal craft.

Brother Cunningham quotes very liberally from the recent paper of
our Bro. William E. Ginther on the subject, who "bases them entirely
upon the symbolical or spiritual character of Fremasonry ;" and in his re-
view of New Jersey, he quotes in full the list of landmarks as reported by
the committee on jurisprudence of that body, who, however, acted under
so much of duress and limitation as might be involved in the direction re-
ceived when the subject was referred to them, to report what are the land-
marks "as applicable to the Masonic law of New Jersey."*

♦On referring to our comments on the report of the New Jersey committee last year,
we find a curious error, where the printer either bewitched the types— or was himself
misled by an unaccountable momentary aphasia reflected in our manuscript— to say that
Anthony Payne instead of Anthony Sayre was the first grand master.

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The tenth and closing landmark as reported hy the New Jersey com-
mittee is as follows :

10. Ancient Craft Masonry includes only the Entered Apprentice,
Fellow Craft and Master Mason degrees.

Of which Brother Cunningham says :

The conservative views of the committee are an interesting addition
to the papers on this subject. Their conclusions, however in number ten,
are subject to question, as there is now no means of knowing just how
much has been eliminated from Ancient Craft Masonry in forming other
grades.

While we may not all of us know how much of Ancient Craft Masonry
has been unwarrantably used in constructing other grades, we are in a
position to know that nothing has been eliminated from its essentials. Noth-
ing has been lost. The "Master's Part" had been erected into a degree be-
fore any numerically higher grade had come into existence. A master's
lodge existed in this country before any of the other "grades" were heard
of here, and the essentials of the three degrees are the same as they have
always been ; and are the same as they are in the lodges descended from
the same source on the other side of the Atlantic.

Our esteemed brother finds in the Illinois volume for 1902, material
for seventeen pages of interesting matter. •

Of the grand master's address he says :

The annual address of the grand master, M. W. Bro. George M.
Moulton, is an interesting Masonic paper of forty-two pages, in which the
official affairs pertaining to his office are carefully reported. His many
official visitations and other official duties discharged indicate a very busy
year upon the part of the grand master. In his address he is justly em-
phatic in his disapproval of the publication of lodge affairs in the public
press, and warns the craft of that grand jurisdiction against clandestine
Masonry.

He quotes from the address the incident of the deceased brother who
failed to receive the Masonic burial which his family requested, because of
the delay necessitated by the rule of a grand jurisdiction that all corre-
spondence between lodges in other jurisdictions and in their own should
pass through the hands of the grand masters, as an instance of "unfraternal
red tape." The reports of the grand officers, and the business of the grand
lodge are carefully examined.

He gives thirteen of his valuable pages to our report for 1902 and to
ourself personally. Copying from our report the letter of Sir Edward
Letchworth, grand secretary of England, to Brother Titcomb, of Ala-
bama, he says :

Brother Robbins, although previously regretting the absence of official
information from the grand secretary of the Grand Lodge of England,
summarily disposes of the above by saying that —

2i!8 APPENDIX — PART T.

"Unfortunately Grand Secretary Letchworth's letter to Brother Tit-
comb imparts HO new information. It was already known that recognition
had been accorded to the Egyptian body by England, at the time our re-
port above referred to was written. Ireland" had also extended recognition,
but the claim that Scotland had done so was not well grounded, and still
remains untrue."

No, Brother Robbins did not summarily dispose of the matter thus,
but beginning where he stops we went on to explain the sort of informa-
tion we were seeking (and which the grand secretary did not touch,) by
quoting from our report of 1901, as follows:

In 1898 this grand lodge (Illinois) also decided that the National
Grand Lodge Of Egypt should be placed on the waiting list pending further
disclosures as to the genesis of the lodges composing it, so that it might be
definitely known before action was had, whether a majority of them were
of known lawful origin or were derived from a supreme council of the
Rite of Memphis, a rite which had been placed under the ban by the Grand
Lodge of Illinois (1884) for assuming to possess authorities or privileges
in Ancient Craft Masonry.

This inquiry, essential as it is, may well wait for the present upon the
settlement of another question which has since arisen to assume priority,
viz.: Whether, after the English lodges in Egypt had been "merged in the
new body and it had been so recognized by the Grand Lodge of England
that the English promoters of general recognition assured us that no more
English warrants would be* granted for lodges in that country, the subse-
quent appointment by the Grand Lodge of England of Lord Kitchener as
district grand master of Egypt, shows an understood lack of that quality
of independence which could alone enable the National Grand Lodge of
Egypt to treat with sovereign grand lodges upon a footing of equality?
Until this question of vassalage, partial or complete, is determined, the
wisdom of making haste slowly must be apparent.

In another place our venerable brother copies this last paragraph, per-
haps with the idea of replying to it, but just at that moment he conveni-
ently discovers a colored gentleman in the wood-pile and taking refuge
there, says :

And yet how easily convinced our eminent brother was concerning the
legitimacy of the lineage of the so-called African (Prince Hall) grand
lodge !

We may recur to the subject of African lodge later — just to correct
one or two errors into which our brother has unwittingly fallen, but just
now we are talking of a grand lodge of another color.

We may say here that, as shown by the last paragraph quoted by him,
that all our inquiries had been predicated upon the supposition that a con-
siderable portion of the lodges uniting to form the National Grand Lodge
of Egypt were of English origin, and we had hoped to find that a major-
ity of them were such.

This hope was but faint after the publication of Brother Hughan's
letter {III' Proc. 1902, />. 180,) which showed that not more than three

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English lodges could have affiliated with the National Grand Lodge of
Egypt and whether these three united with the irregular lodges to form
that body, or affiliated with it at a later period did not appear. Their war-
rants, according to Brother Hugham, were not erased from the English
register until 1882, six years after the formation of the Egyptian body.
We now beg to refer our distinguished brother to the letter of Bro. Henry
C. Crozier, published in this report (in our notice of Alabama).

He will there find that all the lodges uniting to form the National
Grand Lodge of Egypt came out of the "Grand Orient of Egypt Memphis
Rite," unless the three English lodges which returned their warrants to
London participated in the organization. So far it nowhere appears
whether they did this, or whether they affiliated with it at a later date, or
whether on relinquishing their English warrants their members affiliated
with the lodges already existing under the new body. Nor is it material,
because they would only amount to an insignificant minority as shown by
Brother Hugan's statement (in the letter above referred to) that the four
lodges still on the English register were "working side by side with some
twenty of Egyptian origin."

As we have before said, we hoped that inquiry might prove that a ma-
jority of the lodges uniting to form the new body were of legitimate origin.
At that time with us, the question of its recognizability turned chiefly on
that point. Brother Hughan had informed us that in extending recogni-
tion the Grand Lodge of England had dissolved its district grand lodge,
and Brother Crozier (///. Proc. 1902, p. 182) had told us that England
would grant no more warrants there. All this looked as if the National
Grand Lodge of Egypt claimed sovereign jurisdiction within its territory,
notwithstanding the Grand Lodge of England did not withdraw its war-
rants from the four lodges which preferred to remain under English rule,
just as the Grand Lodge of Canada claimed it, and on that claim secured
general recognition from American grand lodges, although some lodges
existing there still retained English warrants. But the subsequent ap-
pointment of Lord Kitchener as district grand master (which meant of
course the formation of a new district grand lodge in that territory,) as
noted by us in the paragraph which Brother Cunningham quotes only to
change the subject, naturally raised the question of the extent of the res-
ervation with which England had recognized Egypt. A reference to
Brother Crozier's (ante) shows that we were not pursuing any insubstan-
tial figment of the brain ; but that whether originally from the English
point of view there was a string tied to their recognition of the Egyptian
body which the latter did not suspect, or not, the later surrender of the
supposed sovereignty and independence of the National Grand Lodge of
Egypt, in consenting to the re-establishment of an English district grand
lodge, and to the issue of at least one warrant by the Grand Lodge of Eng-

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land for a lodge in the Egyptian territory, discloses a most substantial bar
to recognition as an equal by independent and sovereign grand lodges.

That this surrender has been fully consummated appears by the pro-
ceedings of the Grand Lodge of England at its quarterly communication of
June I, 1904, which show the existence of an English lodge at Khartoum.

Commenting on our report he says :

Under the head of South Dakota, however, he seemingly finds a more
serious objection to the recognition of the Grand Lodge of Egypt — al-
though, throughout his reports, year after year, he has without stint ex-
pressed his disgust at all grand orients, and his antipathy to all regular
organizations of the Scottish Rite, yet he makes a mountain out of a small
molehill and quotes the statement that the Grand Orient of Egypt (Rite
of Memphis, etc.) —

Created the National Grand Lodge of Egypt on May 8, 1876, by decree
and by the concordats of May 25, 1879, and that the Grand Orient of Egypt
has against its will been obliged to denounce the national grand lodge, its
offspring, in the interest of Egyptian Masonry, because the national grand
lodge has changed their primitive and national rite to another of their
own accord ; because they have withdrawn in their proceedings from the
cardinal points and statutes of the craft; because they have created a
series of high degrees on their own authority and without any lawful basis;
because they have renounced the privilege of a free election of a grand
master, and for other causes, the National Grand Orient of Egypt pro-
claims to all Masonic powers the actual forfeiture from the rolls of the
fraternity the National Grand Lodge of Egypt as an irregular body."

He then quotes our comment on the above manifesto — the same which
make a mountain out of a molehill — as follows :

"As we have said this is important if true, that is, it derives its impor-
tance from its truth and not because the grand orient has a shadow of
authority to decide as to the regularity or irregularity of a body claiming
to administer Ancient Craft Masonry. If the statements are facts, the
irregularity of the National Grand Lodge of Egypt is glaringly apparent."

And thus comments :

As if there could any weight attach to the fulmination of the Rite of
Memphis "Grand Orient of Egypt." If, indeed, any of the subordinate
bodies of the Grand Lodge of Egypt owed their origin to the Memphis
body, their irregularity was cured by their incorporation with regular
bodies subordinate to the Grand Lodge of England and their subsequent
recognition as a regular grand lodge by the M. W. Lmited Grand Lodge of
England itself, with the further indorsement also of other grand lodges.

But, although the Rite of Memphis in Egypt is apparently not held
by our eminent brother in the same deferential light he usually accords to
so-called Cereneauism, or the African (Prince Hall) Freemasonry, which
with the bogus Rite of Memphis in the United States were potent factors
and mostly the originators of clandestinism in America ; yet he deems its
statements of sufficient importance to warrant setting aside the action of
the M. W. United Grand Lodge of England in its official recognition of
the National Grand Lodge of Egypt and the official action of the M. W.
Grand Lodge of Ireland and other grand lodges in the same connection !

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE. 23 L

If, indeed, his wits be not slipping, it must have put his ingenuousness
to a severe strain to say in the face of our declaration that if the manifesto
had any importance at all it did not derive it from fact that it emanated
from the grand orient, a body which had not a shadow of authority to
decide anything pertaining to Ancient Craft Masonry, that we deemed its
statements of sufficient importance to warrant setting aside the action of
grand lodges.

"If indeed, any of the subordinate bodies of the Grand Lodge of Egypt
owed their origin to the Memphis body," says our subjunctive critic, when
the fact is — as we have finally succeeded in digging it out under a constant
flank fusillade from those whose chief concern in Masonry seems to be to
coddle dissenters from the original plan of the institution — that all of
them owed their origin to the Memphis body except a possible three, con-
stituting a small minority. "Their irregularity was cured by their incor-
poration with regular bodies subordinate to the Grand Lodge of England,"
he continues, and their subsequent recognition as a regular grand lodge
by the M. W. United Grand Lodge of England itself." How cured?
"Which does the swallowing, the minority or the majority? Shall the tail
"waggle" the dog, or the dog waggle the tail?

When our venerated brother learns that the Grand Lodge of England
was not the parent grand lodge in this instance, will he still keep on speak-
ing of it as the Grand Lodge of England "itself." Because our brother
has launched an ultimatum at the Grand Lodge Alpina (and a very proper
one for a grand lodge that has got itself entangled with such dissenting
bodies) shall we say that he is "setting aside the action of the M. W.
United Grand Lodge of England ("itself") in its official recognition of the
Grand Lodge Alpina? Shall we say that he is setting aside the action of
the Grand Lodge of Ireland, because she too recognizes the Grand Lodge
Alpina ?

No ! All this by-talk about the "mother grand lodge of the world"
(rarely indulged in unless the "mother" has done something which can
be twisted into bolstering up dissent) is intended to give a factitious sig-
nificance to the recognition of Egypt by England because it carries with it
an implied assumption that England was the parent grand lodge. If this
were true— ^as we have the evidence of Brother Crozier that it was not in
the case of Egypt — such talk is unworthy of American Masons, not be-
cause they do not properly venerate the mother grand lodge, but because
the consensus of Masonic opinion in this country is universal, that, given
an open autonomous territory and a sufficient number of lawful lodges
therein (not less than three) the conditions exist that may warrant the
formation of an independent grand lodge ; that the determination of
whether or when such grand lodge shall be formed rests wholly with the
lodges, and that in the settlement of these questions the grand lodges is-

232 APPENDIX — PART I.

suing the warrants or charters of these lodges can exercise no constraint
whatever. The "parent grand lodge" cuts no more figure than any other.
When, under these conditions a grand lodge is formed, commanding the
allegiance of the majority of the lodges in the political autonomy which it
occupies, no grand ledge will, if it finds the proceedings at its organiza-
tion to have been regular, delay the recognition to which it is entitled for
a single hour because any disgruntled ''parent" sulks and hangs back.

We promised our brother to recur to the subject of the African lodge.
He says that we are doubtless fully aware :

i. But few, if any, writers had disputed the claim that African Lodge
of Massachusetts was warranted under the authority of the Grand Lodge
of England, and therefore to that extent only a regular lodge.

2. The Grand Lodge of Massachusetts has sufficiently established its
claim that the establishment of African Lodge was an invasion of pre-
occupied territory.

3. It is also true that the warrant of African Lodge was subsequently
revoked by the Grand Lodge of England.

Some writers did dispute the claim of African Lodge to the possession
of a genuine charter, but a committee of past grand masters from the
Grand Lodge of Massachusetts inspected the charter and pronounced it
genuine, not long before the parchment was destroyed by fire.

2nd. The Grand Lodge of Massachusetts has not established its claim
that the establishment of African Lodge was an invasion of pre-occupied
territory, because it was established in open territory. At the time the
charter of African Lodge was granted, and for eight years thereafter, no
body existed in Massachusetts that was in a position to assert, or that did
assert its claim to jurisdiction over all the lodges in Massachusetts.

3rd. It is not true that the warrant of African Lodge was subsequently
revoked. It was simply erased from the register, after the union of 1813
by which the United Grand Lodge of England was formed, in common with
many other American warrants and without inquiry as to any of them
whether the lodges still maintained a legitimate existence.

This point has no bearing upon the one contention we have ever set up
in the matter, viz. : that African Lodge was as legitimate in its origin
(and so remained up to the time of the freeze-out) as the other lodges by
which it was frozen out when they united to form the Grand Lodge of
Massachusetts in 1792, eight years after its warrant was granted and five
years after that warrant was received in Boston.

Still, when a Mason of such standing as our esteemed Ohio brother,
repeats this bit of stale misinformation, the vindication of the truth of his-
tory requires that it be noticed.

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Our brother labors through a page of matter to show that we ought
(for his convenience) to have set up some more sweeping contention, and
that we probably did mean more than that ; but inasmuch as the statement
of our position in 1898 agreed with that of 1871, and that what we have
since said on the subject agrees with both the others, he has his labor for
his pains. The one point he makes that has so much of truth in it that we
do not feel compelled to criticise it, is that we stood alone — "as now re-
called''-— among writers on correspondence in the United States, in daring
to say what we thought during the Washington storm of 1898-1899.

Eight pages of labored effort to convince himself that because we de-
cline to admit the shadow of authority in Symbolic Masonry of bodies
built on the most glaring dissent from the Masonry of that plan, and be-
cause we do not hesitate to denounce the claim on the part of bodies so
built to the possession of such authority as the climax of impudence, we are
given to denunciation of High Riters collective and singular, require little
notice beyond thanking him for placing so much sound Masonic doctrine
before his readers as he done in his liberal extracts from our report.

Sometimes he gets so eager to discredit us that he says too much, and,
as the boys say, "gives the snap away." For instance, he says:

Possessors of these degrees who are, Masonically and as citizens, the
peer of our M. W. brother are charged — but without a shadow, or word,
of proof to sustain the charge — with having surreptitiously, unmasonically,
or by false pretense, misled their respective grand lodges into the enact-
ment of declarations of sovereignty, supremacy, and control over legitimate
Masonic bodies that claim a Masonic foundation, for the purpose of giving
financial and other aid to recognized high rite bodies to the detriment and
scandal of Freemasonry.

This was predicated on the following, which, in another connection
he quotes from our criticism of the Massachusetts committee in 1902, in
which we are quite contented to let the italics with which he has larded
it, stand :

"And this suggests one respect in which the task of the present grand
lodge committee was simpler and easier than that of Brother Woodbury,
who wrote the report engineering the legislation noiu sought to be repealed
through the grand lodge i>i 1882. He had to manage it so that the great
voting body of the membership of the grand lodge should not know that
the action proposed zvas taken solely in the interest of one of the parties
to a dynastic war in the Scottish Rite. He got through with his job and
got his job through without saying a word to indicate to a brother who
was not in the secret that there was anything but the most dovelike har-
mony among all Scotch Riters, by making the Rite of Memphis, about
which nobody cared a tinker's continental, the ostensible objective point
of his attack."

Now, at the conclusion of the same paragraph in which he speaks of
the charge to sustain which "no shadow or word of proof is offered," he
prefaces a quotation from our report on another aspect of the subject with

234 APPENDIX — PART I.

the remark — "as he says in his reply to the report of the Massachusetts
committee, in re the repeal of enactments against Cerneauism and Rite of
Memphis."

So! The cat is out of the hag. It was "Cerneauism and the Rite of
Memphis" against which the enactments which constituted the "Massachu-
setts Departure" were aimed; and yet we are held up for saying that the
campaign, including the report, which engineered those enactments through
the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts — during which no hint of Cerneauism
was heard — was one of false pretences !

Our esteemed hrother asks :

In regard to the innocent (!) and inconsequential (!) character of
the so-called Rite of Memphis, and for which he claims no one cared in
the least, it is pertinent to ask the reason for the action of the Grand Lodge
of Illinois, hut two years later V1884), in its adoption of the well-known
and carefully-prepared Gurney resolutions (quoted in full in the report of
your committee last year!) in which it was conceded that the Rite of
Memphis was an important and obnoxious factor of clandestinism. The
language of the resolutions, as shown by your committee, was broad
enough to reach the bogus Cerneau degree peddlers who were co-workers
with the disseminators of the so-called Egyptian Rite of Memphis, and, as
noted, having also claimed the right to control and confer the craft de-
grees were as quoted therein equally.

"Clandestine bodies within the meaning of the fundamental law of
Masonry; and, with their constituents, dependents, and individual mem-
bers, are clearly within the scope of the inhibitions of section 2, Article 10,
of the constitution of this grand lodge ; and all the Masons within the
jurisdiction of the said Grand Lodge of Illinois are hereby warned that
any Masonic intercourse with the aforesaid 'Egyptian Masonic Rite of
Memphis,' of which Bro. Darius Wilson is 'grand master,' or the 'Ancient
and Primitive Rite of Memphis.' of which Bro. Alexander B. Mott is
'Grand Master,' their members and constituent bodies, or with any other
association or persons assuming to haz'e any authority, powers, or priv-
ileges in Ancient Craft Masonry, not derived from this grand lodge, within
the state of Illinois, will subject them to the penalty attaching to a violation
of their Masonic covenants."

The question is, as he says, a pertinent one to ask, and he would have
answered it himself if he had not cut off the preamble to the resolution
the latter half of which he quotes above, and which reads as follows :

And whereas, The aforesaid "Egyptian Masonic Rite of Memphis,"
of which Bro. Darius Wilson is "grand master," together with the "An-
cient and Primitive Rite of Memphis," of which Bro. Alexander B. aIott
is grand master, declare by both positive avowal and implication, that they
and their organizations have an inherent right by charters and otherwise
to establish lodges for conferring the degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow
Craft and Master Mason, therefore.

As Brother Cunningham well knows, we were talking of Massachu-
setts when we said that nobody cared a bawbee about the Rite of Memphis,
but it was practically the same elsewhere. It is doubtful if there were a

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hundred people in any jurisdiction — probably there was not a score — who
knew that anybody was claiming any proprietorship in any so-called
Memphis Rite in this country. The Massachusetts attack introduced the
rite to the Masons of the United States ; it brought out two claimants,
each calling his file of degrees by a name slightly differing from that
of the other, and both talking loudly about their rights and their au-
thority inhering in them through their respective patents. In 1884, this
attracted the attention of Brother Gurney, then committee on correspond-
ence of the Grand Lodge of Illinois, and he addressed letters of inquiry to
the putative heads of the rite, or rites. The replies were reflected in the
preamble which we have reproduced above, when the rest followed of
course. To save space our Ohio brother omitted the first half of the
resolution which followed that preamble. We here spare room for it :

Resolved, That the said "Egyptian Masonic Rite of Memphis," and all
other associations of persons of whatever degree or name (other than
lodges of Free and Accepted, Symbolic or Craft Masons, and the grand
lodges duly constituted by the representatives of such lodges) that shall
arrogate to themselves the authority, under any circumstances or conditions.
to confer the degrees of Symbolic or Craft Masonry, to-wit : Entered Ap-
prentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason, or whose charters, constitutions,
laws, edicts or decrees shall assume, or permit the powers organized under
them to assume, the authority to constitute lodges, or bodies of any other
name, for conferring the said three degrees of Symbolic or Craft Masonry,
are "clandestine bodies," etc., (as quoted by him above.)

The italics in this initial half of the resolution are ours ; and they
will serve even more effectually than his own emphasis in the latter half
of it, to show that the language was broad enough to reach not only "the
bogus Cerneau degree-peddlers," but all other purveyors of the Scottish
Rite degrees, whenever any association of such purveyors shall arrogate
to themselves the authority which he claims for them, to confer the three
degrees of Symbolic Masonry.

Our venerated brother further says (but why he uses the adjective
"unfraternal" is not apparent) :

Upon every available occasion in his report he reiterates his unfra-
ternal charge of "dissent from the original plan of Masonry," etc., against
brethren — who doubtless have at heart as pure a love for unadulterated
Masonry as our M. W. brother himself — because, forsooth, they may be-
lieve and act and write contrary to opinions he may hold.

These expressions, too, are but mere glittering generalities in that con-
nection, as doubtless our scholarly brother knows full well; for ivho can
tell precisely zoliat the original plan of Freemasonry was, in its prehistoric
organization, or even for centuries perhaps afterwards ? In its reorganiza-
tion by the four London lodges in 1717 we know that the grand lodge took
the place of general assembly, with doubtless other radical changes, espe-
cially in lodge autonomy, in which other lodges in England, and especially
the Lodge of York, did not participate. 'It is well to note in this connec-
tion that the claim that the lodge at York did not exercise grand lodge
prerogatives or powers has been completely refuted by modern research.

230 APPENDIX— PART I.

The old manuscripts show that the Freemasonry of England prior to
1717 was strictly Christian in character, and the handiwork of Romish
priests is prominent in most of them. The examination of old records of
three centuries since also indicates that, in some instances, women were
included in the membership, as shown in the researches of Hughan and
other eminent scholars.

Anderson's constitutions of 1723-1738 may therefore be considered the
pivotal point about which now clusters all legitimate Freemasonry in Eng-
land.

To begin with the last proposition here made, the pivotal point is not
Anderson's constitutions of 1723-1738, but Anderson's constitutions (The
Charges of a Freemason) of 1723. The craft would not stand for the
changes of the edition of 1738; they were abandoned and the formulae of
1723 are now agreed to be the fundamental law.

The expression "the original plan of Masonry," is anything but a glit-
tering generality.

No one can tell what variations, aberrations or irregularities pre-
vailed in prehistoric days, (though glimpses of some of them come to us
through fragmentary records and surviving manuscripts) nor is it mate-
rial. What is the original plan of Masonry was settled for us and for all
time by the Masons of 1717-1723, and it is the grand lodge plan. What-
ever else it may include it is certain that the organization of the frater-
nity on the plan of the grand lodge duly constituted by the representatives
of the lodges through which Masonry reaches its individual constituents
and in which each individual has an equal voice and equal eligibilities, is
its most characteristic and indisputable feature.

While this feature is in entire harmony with the antecedent structure
and democratic quality of Masonry, it is not so with the religious feature,
which, as our brother says, was strongly sectarian and for which the sim-
ply theistic basis of the charge Concerning Good and Religion was substi-
tuted whereby fellowship instead of dogma is declared to be the "centre
of union" for men of every country, sect and opinion, thus furnishing a
basis catholic enough to support for Masonry its claim to universality. As
to both features the adoption of the charges which circumscribe and define
them foreclosed for all time the question as to what was the original plan
of Masonry.

As we stated last year (Rep. Cor. 1903, p. 140) we had never dis-
cussed at length the principle underlying all our claims as to what con-
stitutes the original plan, because no one had challenged us to defend it.
This was called out by the fact that in his last priceless legacy to the craft
— priceless for this feature alone were it not also for other reasons — his
report for 1902, Brother Drummond had stated that principle so clearly
in so few words that we wished to reproduce it. We again quote it here,

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE. 237

and with it a succeeding paragraph, because the latter bears so directly on
our statement that Anderson's constitutions of 1723 (and not 1738) were
the "pivotal point" about which clusters all legitimate Freemasonry :

It is sufficient to say that the question as to what the landmark was
was decided by the Grand Lodge of England. Old manuscripts and all
other guesses are of #10 importance whatever. In 1723 the Grand Lodge
of England decided what that landmark then was, and that decision is the
one that is binding upon us, precisely the same as that of the Grand Lodge
of Wisconsin as to what any landmark is, is binding on all the craft in its
jurisdiction. This is the ground upon which our statement was based,
and, in spite of his thinking that an other expression of ours is arrant
nonsense, we again repeat, that any conclusions of historians of the pres-
ent day as to what the landmark was, are of no consequence whatever.
That decision as to what the landmark was is final.

He goes on to argue at some length the validity of the constitution of
1738. We have said all that we desire to say in reply to that already. If
that edition was not disapproved by the grand lodge soon after its publi-
cation, it was in 1754 by the return of the Grand Lodge of England to the
first constitution, and that ivas the constitution in force when the American
provincial grand lodges were established by it, and that is the constitution
that came to this country with the organization of Masonry here and re-
mained the constitution of the Grand Lodge of England.

It would be profitable (to us at least) to tarry longer with our valued
brother whose suggestive writing always supplies abundant food for
thought, and we would gladly take the space for it if we could take the
time, but when we look at the mountain of work before us which must be
cleared up within the next eighteen days we are sharply admonished that
we must forbear.

OKLAHOMA, 1904.

12TH Annual. Guthrie. February 9.

The volume opens with a portrait of the retiring grand master, Sher-
man P. Larsh.

Four past grand masters were present and also the representatives of
twenty jurisdictions, Illinois not among them. Regrets were received from
Past Grand Masters Charles Day and Mortimer F. Stillwell.

The past and present official circle of the grand lodge had not been
broken.

All the public work reported by Grand Master Larsh was done while
the grand lodge was opened on the first degree.

238 APPENDIX — PART I.

Thirteen decisions were reported, some of which appear below:

I. At a regular meeting the committee on petition for the degrees re-
ported favorably, and the W. M. would not allow the ballot to be spread,
but used a secret objection to prevent further progress. What shall we do to
correct the error, if one was made?

Spread the ballot. See section 18 of article VIII, constitution and by-
laws.

Is a secret objection valid when placed in the hands of the master be-
fore the ballot is spread, the same at though it were given after the ballot
was spread ?

Yes. See P. G. M. Eagleton's decision No. 2.

3. March 21 : McLoud Lodge No. 37, asked if they could receive the
petition of a man who was traveling salesman for a wholesale liquor house.

No. See section No. 35, of article VIII, of the constitution.

6. April 27 : Kingfisher Lodge No. 8 and Adell Lodge No. 66 asked if
they could receive a petition of a candidate who had been so unfortunate as
to lose a foot?

Yes, providing he can give all the due signs and summons.

9. Aug. 7 : Enid Lodge No. 19 writes that one J. C. Hubbell was sus-
pended five years ago for non-payment of dues, and his present where-
abouts are unknown. His daughter, who lives in Webb City, Mo., offers to
pay one-half of his dues if the lodge will remit the other half, thereby plac-
ing her in a position to petition the Order of the Eastern Star as the daugh-
ter of a Master Mason in good standing.

(a) Can a brother's dues be remitted without his request? No.

(b) Can the lodge act without positive knowledge that the brother is
living? No.

10. Sept. 22 : Arlington Lodge No. 20 asks : Can we prefer charges and
try a brother for unmasonic conduct committed in our jurisdiction, who is
a member of a lodge U. D. ? If so, and found guilty, can we assess the
penalty?

Yes, by certifying the findings under the seal of the lodge to the grand
master. This was done, and I ordered the name stricken from the petition
of the U. D. lodge and a proper record made.

12. Nov. 25: Hobart Lodge No. 85 writes that a brother made applica-
tion to the lodge for membership by affiliation, and presented therewith a
dimit in due form from the jurisdiction of Missouri, which states that it is
limited to one year from date issued, and if not presented to some lodge
within the year the brother stands suspended. Can the lodge receive and
act on his application?

No. Do not receive his application until he heals the defect of suspen-
sion as provided by the laws of Missouri.

13. Dec. 9: Jennings Lodge No. 53 asks if they can confer the degrees
on a person who has the thumb of his right hand off. Also asks how it
would be if the thumb was off at the first joint.

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE. 239

I held that in either case the party was physically disqualified to receive
the degrees of Masonry.

Nos. i and 2 indicate that the grand master sees clearly that the right
of objection does not come into existence until the immemorial method of
excluding an objectionable or unwelcome petitioner (by the ballot) has been
first exhausted. No. 3 is given for information, reflecting as it does only ar-
bitrary local law. Nos. 6 and 13 should be read together, as without it one
gets no idea upon what ground the different views stand, and even then it
is not quite clear ; No. 6 was disapproved. The opinion of the committee on
law and usage on No. 12 is thus recorded : "We disapprove decision No. 12
provided that the dimit was at the time the petition was presented, more than
one year old." This was a Chinese puzzle to us until we found on a subse-
quent page that with the proviso they attached, they approved the decision.

We presume the Oklahoma regulations required the negative answers
to the first and second queries under decision No. 9. In the absence of such
a requirement the pleasure of the body would be the law. Referring to No.
10, the grand master might ask that the findings be certified to him, but
manifestly the right of the lodge to try or to assess a penalty could not
hinge upon such certification, as the language seems to imply.

It would be interesting to know whether the Oklahoma regulations for-
bid waiver of territorial jurisdiction. In a case where a lodge in Indian Ter-
ritory had initiated a resident of the territory of Temple Lodge U. D.,
Oklahoma.

The grand master of Indian Territory wrote to the invading lodge,
among other things the following :

It is unnecessary for me to say that your action was illegal, and without
Masonic authority, as this is manifest. Now, I would suggest that you fol-
low the suggestions made by the G. M. of Oklahoma, and act right in this
matter, which I feel sure was merely hasty and unthoughted action upon
the part of your lodge. He has kindly consented "to clothe Temple Lodge
U. D., by proper dispensation, with authority to waive the jurisdiction as to
the candidate. Ask that lodge to do so, accompanying the request with the
fee received, or assurance that it will be sent, suggesting to them that the
G. M. of Oklahoma has consented to grant them authority to act upon the
waiver. If the waiver is granted, then cure your illegal work by re-obli-
gating the E. A.

The italics are ours. That this was not a case where the regulations re-
quired the correspondence to pass through the hands of the grands masters
of the respective jurisdictions, is shown by the fact that Grand Master
Brewer (Indian Territory) advised the trespassing lodge to apply directly
to the aggrieved lodge for a waiver, and this on the suggestion of Grand
Master Larsh. In the absence of an Oklahoma regulation forbidding
lodges to waive jurisdiction, the action and advise was tantamount to say-
ing that, as a general proposition, territorial jurisdiction was shared be-

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tween the lodges and the grand master, or that Temple lodge, being under
dispensation, needed for that reason special authority to do what chartered
lodges could do of their own right. Which was it?

The following which went to the finance committee was not reported
upon : •

Believing that our grand jurisdiction is now beyond her infancy and
can follow in the footsteps of older jurisdictions, I respectfully recommend
that a sum equal to five per cent of the general fund on hand on the first
day of July of each year be set aside as a charity fund, to be disbursed by
a committee of three, consisting of a grand master, grand secretary and
grand treasurer, in such a manner as may hereafter be prescribed by this
grand lodge.

But the following bore fruit :

The cipher ritual having, as I am well advised, insinuated itself into
our grand jurisdiction, and as I am informed further, having even crept
upon the master's station while lodges were at labor, I respectfully recom-
mend that this grand lodge adopt such legislation as will cause the arrest of
the charter of any subordinate lodge that permits its officers or members to
use this ritual while the lodge is at labor.

The grand lecturer (W. R. Brown) condemned the use of cipher un-
sparingly as being unmasonic, incorrect and leading to sloth and ignorance
wherever they are found, and on the recommendation of the committee on
work the constitution was amended to provide :

"Sec. 37. The use of a key or cipher is prohibited, and the use of the
same by the officers or member of a subordinate lodge is hereby declared a
Masonic offense.

"It shall be duty of the master of the lodge wherein such offense is
committed to order charges preferred and trial had as in other cases for

Masonic offenses.".

"Sec 38. It shall be the duty of the grand master to arrest the charter
of any subordinate lodge whose master permits its officers or members to
use a key or cipher while the lodge is at labor."

The grand lodge concurred in the recommendation of the committee on
correspondence that no action be taken at present on either the application
of the Grand Orient of Brazil or that of the Supreme Council of Brazil
for recognition. The former denounces the latter as a spurious body.

The grand lodge chartered twenty-two new lodges ; received with
thanks two offers of donations of land — one of five and the other of twenty
acres — on condition that a Masonic Home be located in certain tracts of
which these lots were a part ; witnessed the conferring of the third degree
with the accessories of the beautiful scenery and dramatic effects of the
Masonic Temple, which may have been one of the attractions which helped
Guthrie to win in the contest over the meeting place for next year; and
adopted the following relative to qualifications:

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The qualifications of an applicant are : faith in God, hope in immortal-
ity, and charity toward all mankind, and an applicant shall furthermore have
attained the full age of twenty-one years, be free born, of good moral char-
acter, without maim or any such defect as may incapacitate him to learn the
art or give all due signs and salutations, and must have been a resident of
the jurisdiction of this grand lodge for at least one year, and of the subor-
dinate lodge in which he applies to become a member for at least six
months preceding the filing of his petition or application."

J. Frank Matthews, of Mangum, was elected grand master; James
S. Hunt, Stillwater, re-elected grand secretary.

The report on correspondence (155 pp.) is by the assistant grand sec-
retary, F. C. Hunt, who takes hold of the work like a veteran. Four of his
pages are devoted to the Illinois proceedings for 1902.

Grand Master Moui/ton's address is characterized as "able, comprehen-
sive and complete, and liberal contribution is levied on the address of
Grand Orator McFatrich at the laying of the corner-stone of the Masonic
Home, at Sullivan, and on his oration before the grand lodge. The report
on correspondence is also drawn upon. Referring to our notice of his grand
lodge, he says :

Our dignified and impressive opening of grand lodge by having the
grand master escorted to the grand east by the grand deacons and there re
ceived with the honors which belonged to his high station, is called "one of
the frills of adolescence." We like the style, ourselves.

He thinks there may be something in our criticism that in declaring
a vacancy in the office of master and ordering an election to fill the same,
their grand master had lost sight of the inherent rights of the wardens to
the succession, but on another subject he takes issue with us, as follows:

To the decision that a member of a lodge who has never held an office
cannot, in the absence of the master and senior warden, be called by the
junior warden to preside in the east, the objection is made that "the deci-
sion is against a largely preponderant concensus of grand lodges and Ma-
sonic jurists, unless a grand lodge regulation exists to that effect." We
assure our esteemed brother that the decision was in accordance with the
express law of this jurisdiction. But we will have to take issue on the prop-
osition that the decision is against the weight of Masonic authority. We
had occasion to investigate this question rather closely a short time ago,
and reached a different conclusion from the one held by Brother Robbins.

We can only confess to surprise at the result of his investigation. We
do not deny the correctness of his tally, because we have kept none our-
selves. We spoke only of the decided impression we had brought from hav-
ing encountered the subject frequently in our work.

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OREGON, 1904.

54TH Annual. Portland. June 15.

A fine photogravure portrait of the retiring grand master, Silas
M. YORAN, is the frontispiece.

Eighteen past grand masters were present and forty-two jurisdictions
were in evidence in the diplomatic gallery. Illinois was represented by
Past Grand Master Wm. T. Wright, of Union.

Death had not invaded the official circle of the grand lodge during the
year. Of the two hundred people who lost their lives in the waterspout
which destroyed the little city of Heppnor, June 14, 1903, six were Masons
and others were wives and children of Masons. The action of Grand Mas-
ter Yoran in drawing on the grand treasurer for $100 to aid in relieving
the distress caused by the calamity, was approved.

The grand master in his address recommended limiting the duration
of the jurisdiction vesting in a lodge by the rejection of an applicant, to
five years. Heretofore the doctrine of perpetual jurisdiction has obtained.

The grand lodge went as far as it could go at one session towards
amending the constitution in accord with his views. The proposer of the
five-year limit as a compromise, Brother Drummond, has passed over, but
his soul goes marching on.

No decisions were reported, none of the many questions submitted to
the grand master, raising any really new points of law.

Considerable time and attention was given to changing the laws gov-
erning the educational fund now amounting to $34,692.14, so that it may
be diverted to the building of a new temple, to which the grand lodge thus
committed itself:

The Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Oregon
hereby declares its settled purpose to provide for the erection and com-
pletion of a building adapted to business purposes and Masonic uses, upon
a suitable site in the city of Portland, and to make all necessary appropria-
tions for that purpose.

Offered advice proverbially lacks delicacy of fragrance, and it is prob-
ably too late to offer it, but the tribulations we have seen entailed by these
enterprises make such dreary reading for the reviewer that we cannot
forbear saying — Don't !

We last year chronicled a case in which the Grand Lodge of Oregon
ordered a petition for a new lodge which lacked the essential approval of
a lodge whose right to refuse was clear under the law, to be again re-
ferred to the refusing lodge with instructions to approve the same. This

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year it took a shorter cut to set aside its own law, and in a similar case
ordered the dispensation to issue without the essential approval.

Like begets like, and having tasted to this extent the freedom of re-
straint from its own law, it cut still worse antics. In two instances wherein
lodges had exercised their conceded right in declining to waive jurisdic-
tion over applicants orders of this kind were made :

That the grand lodge directs and commands the W. M., wardens and
brethren of Baker Lodge No. 47, at the next regular communication of
Baker Lodge, to vote upon and to grant waiver of jurisdiction over
D. W. C. Nelson to Luthersville Lodge No. 236, as requested, and forth-
with transmit official notice of the action of the grand master.

And this was reported and recommended by the committee on juris-
prudence ! By the same token the grand lodge might commend another
ballot on a rejected petition for the degrees, with instructions that no
blackball should be cast !

The grand lodge chartered four new lodges ; listened to an address
along orthodox lines and not exceeding the orthodox limit of length.
according to the standard of the Pacific slope ; exchanged cordial greet-
ings by wire with the Grand Lodges of Washington and Wisconsin ; appro-
priated $1,000 for Masonic purposes incident to the Lewis and Clark
Exposition, but declined to take stock in the fraternal building association
of the same name ; sent a committee to visit the venerable past grand
treasurer, Bro. D. C. McKercker, and on their report that they found him
failing in strength, made ample provision to insure him abundance and
comfort for his remaining days ; and directed that notices of petitions, re-
quired between lodges having concurrent jurisdiction should contain the
age, residence and occupation of the petitioner as well as his name ; a
good idea.

Thomas Grav, of Portland, was elected grand master; James F.
Robinson, Eugene, re-elected grand secretary.

The report on correspondence (175 pp.) by Past Grand Master J. M.
Hodson, is in the author's best and most beguiling vein.

He gives our proceedings for 1903 extended notice, epitomizing the
address of Grand Master Moulton quite fully, and ascribes more than
average merit to Brother McFatrich's corner-stone address which the
grand master preserved for him by incorporating it in his own, but he fails
to acknowledge Illinois as the pioneer in putting up the good things in
nests. He thinks the dispensations granted were fewer than they would
have been but for the fees charged for such accommodations, which he
thus schedules : "$20 pays for the privilege of a short-circuit experiment,
and $2 pays for an ordinary indulgence like special election, going to
church," etc. He comes as near mourning as one of his mercurial tem-
perament may, over the defeat of the proposition to recognize a polyglot

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aggregation of dissent, but "chippers up" and takes out his grief in making
faces at the author of the. adverse report whose adoption left the few who
had asked for recognition and the majority who had not, on the outside.

He gives our general report a high and valued blanket compliment,
but furnishes a bill of particulars of the things he don't like. He says:

He does not seem to think that there is anything Masonic and suffi-
ciently regular to be recognizable unless it has the full authority of th*
Grand Lodge of England evolved from King Athelstone down through the
ages with a fac simile signature of authority and charter blown in the
bottle. Hence he opposes successfully the recognition of such grand lodges
as Costa Rice, Egypt or Sweden because a part or all 01 their lodges de-
rived their first authority to organize from Scottish Rite sources. If the
recognition of either by the Grand Lodge of Illinois was an essential to
its existence or even a necessity to its success we should regard it as
unfortunate. But as the situation is, we believing Masonry to be truly
universal and the Scottish Rite being the only Masonry of many coun-
tries, and it being in all, each any every respect as legal and as truly Ma-
sonic as any York lodge on earth, we are in favor of recognition whenever
the Ancient Craft degrees are seggregated and formed into grand lodges.
That is justice, and more it is the almost unanimous tendency and we
hope to live long enough to witness the practical as well as the theoretical
universality of the fraternity.

We think we have some idea of the state of mind of a Free and Ac-
cepted Mason who accepted his Masonry on the conditions inwrought in
the grand lodge plan, and who has bound every master he ever installed,
as a condition of such installation, to discountenance all dissenters from
that plan, but who yet says he believes Scottish Rite Masonry (which is
the very apotheosis of dissent from that plan) to be in each and every re-
spect as legal and as truly Masonic as any York lodge on earth ; but what
we cannot understand is why he should require the Ancient Craft degrees
to be seggregated into grand lodges, as a condition of recognition, when
they are already, while still conferred under the authority of a supreme
council, just as legal as they can be!

He says we go after Wyoming for simply defining which of the vari-
ous organizations it would recognize as legitimate, and which it would
not, and samples our criticism as follows :

But the milk in that particular cocoanut is the fact that the Shrine
builds on the intermediate consistory, just as the commandery builds on
the chapter, and if Wyoming had endowed the Shrine with the same Ma-
sonic legitimacy that the others, with no better or different claims to it are
recognized as possessing, then the thirty-third ceases to be the last degree,
and the prospect of a grand orient in Wyoming with the sovereign grand
inspector general, as its logical, numerically-highest head, while now seems
reasonably probable, would vanish into thin air, and the bottle'd-shaped
dome of the Champagne Rite become the summit of the dizzy structure.

Of this he says :

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Which we consider the "most unkindest cut of all," for no Shriner
lays any claim, as such to being Masonic, and his covert sneer at the thirty-
third shadows a want not filled and a hope which "died a borniu."

We object! Nobody has a right to undertake to measure Iiis beans in
our half-bushel.

PENNSYLVANIA, 1903.

iiSth Annual. Philadelphia. December 28.

This sumptuously printed volume with its customary heavy paper,
large, clear type, wealth of capitals, generous margins and luxurious
abundance of "fat," is embellished with two fine portraits on steel — Edgar
A. Tennis (now out of the game by declining a re-election to the grand
east,) and Joseph R. Chandler, whose administration as grand master in
1841-1842, left an ever-widening and deepening impression of his strong
-will on Pennsylvania Masonry.

The volume contains the proceedings of four quarterly and the annual
communications, and, alas ! — of two special communications of especially
mournful interest. The first special was for the burial service of Past
Grand Master Michael Arnold, held April 27, 1903 ; and the other (July
-27; 1903,) for the obsequies of the senior past grand master, Samuel C.
Perkins.

Brother Arnold had reached his 63rd, and Brother Perkins his 75th
year. Brother Arnold was a lawyer, and one of his eloquent eulogists
says of him professionally :

As an attorney he had no specialty, but filled the full measure of a
great lawyer in all the courts. In the mazes of special pleading; in the
conduct of trial; in the appeal to court and jury in civil or criminal cause,
his opponent ever felt that under his magic power a poor cause became
strong, and his client felt assured that every legal right had been asserted
in his behalf. Twenty years of active service as a law judge furnished a
wide field for his fertile mind, and he has written himself into the litera-
ture of the profession as one of the ablest jurists of the commonwealth.
His universal fairness, his sagacity, diligence, determination, honesty, and
his freedom from all improper influences conjoined to make him an ideal
judge, in whom all suitors, whether rich or poor, friend or stranger, had
full confidence that justice as administered under his direction was never
bought, sold, nor delayed.

All his eulogists dwell upon his lovable personality, which seems to
have bound his brethren to him with an unusually tender tie. He suc-
ceeded the lamented Vaux as chairman of the committee on correspond-

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ence and retained the position until he died. His work in this department
impressed all his confreres with his exceeding courtesy and fraternal spirit.

Past Grand .Master Perkins was also a lawyer, great in his profession,
but even greater in the facility with which he handled all aspects of great
business enterprises. He was the head of the building committee which
constructed the Masonic Temple, as he was also the head and dominating
spirit of the public buildings commission which gave to his city some of
the finest public buildings in the land. He is best remembered in Illinois
as the chairman of the committee selected by Grand Master Cregier which
met in Chicago in 1872 to audit the accounts of the Masonic relief com-
mittee ^charged with dispensing the world's bounty to the sufferers by the
great fire, when he impressed all those who came in contact with him,
with his great dignity and courtesy, and his powerful grasp of all business
details.

The death of another grand officer, John S. J. McConnell, D. D.,
for many years grand chaplain, was announced at the September quarterly.

In our report of last year we noted the fact that Grand Master Tennis
favored the establishment of a Masonic home on a larger scale than the
present home, and unlike that to be supported in part at least by taxation.
At the quarterly communication of March 4, 1903, this recommendation
budded into a provision for a committee to consult the lodges "upon the
subject of establishing in central and western Pennsylvania, homes for
the care of indigent brethren, their aged wives, widows, and their orphan
children, on the following lines :

Admission to these homes to be absolutely free, as in other jurisdic-
tions, no entrance or admission fee of any character whatever to be ex-
acted or charged.

Homes in fact and deed, "where husband, wife, and child, victims of
misfortune, might together enjoy the helpfulness, liberality, and broaden-
ing charity for which our institution stands pre-eminent."

The management to be absolutely under the control and jurisdiction
of this grand lodge, as similar homes are now conducted in other jurisdic-
tions of this fraternity.

Their establishment and maintenance to be provided for as recom-
mended by the right worshipful grand master on St. John's Day, Decem-
ber 27, 1902, and the district deputy grand masters shall cause this part of
the grand master's address, as on page 7, to be read in each of the several
lodges, and have taken a vote upon the subject, to be at once transcribed
and forwarded to the chairman of the committee, for report to this grand
lodge as herein specified.

At the quarterly of June 3, 1903, the committee reported :

Your committee, appointed at the quarterly communication of grand
lodge held March 4, A. D. 1903, A. L. 5903, to confer with the subordinate
lodges of this jurisdiction upon the subject of establishing in central and
western Pennsylvania homes for the care of our indigent brethren, their

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aged wives, widows, and their orphan children, respectfully report that they
have received reports from three hundred and twenty-four lodges, of which
two hundred and eighty-one are in favor of the establishment of such
homes ; and we offer the following :

Whereas, A large majority of lodges have acted favorably on the sub-
ject ; therefore, be it

Resolved, That the report of the committee be received, and the grand
officers and five brethren, to be appointed by the right worshipful grand
master, be added to the committee, and the committee as thus constituted
make further report as to details and financial plans at the quarterly com-
munication of September next.

The preamble and resolution were adopted.

At the quarterly of December 2, 1903, the grand lodge again commit-
ted itself to the policy of a home or homes for the support and mainte-
nance of "Master Masons, their wives, widows, and their orphan children"
and arranged for a committee who shall —

Make a report of a plan of procedure to secure the title to property, to
prescribe the requisite qualifications for admission to said home or homes,
and provide for the immediate organization, maintenance, control, and
management thereof to effect the purpose of these resolutions, which report
shall be submitted at the quarterly communication to be held in March
next.

The minutes of the December quarterly contain the correspondence
between the secretary of the sesqui-centennial anniversary committee
(James M. Lamberton) and President Roosevelt, incident to the presen-
tation of a specially-bound memorial volume of the celebration, from
which we reproduce the president's acknowledgment :

Oyster Bay, N. Y., September 10, 1903.
My Dear Brother Lamberton: — My secretary has just called my at-
tention to the specially bound Memorial Volume of the celebration of the
Masonic Temple in Philadelphia ,of the sesqui-centennial anniversary of the
initiation of Bro. George Washington into the brotherhood of Freemasons,
which you have so kindly sent me. Pray accept my sincere thanks for your
courtesy. I shall keep it with the other souvenirs of that occasion, always
remembering the pleasure it gave me to be present with the brethren.
With fraternal regards, believe me,

Faithfully yours,

Theodore Roosevelt.

Other Washingtoniana was an invitation (which was accepted) to
join with Franklin Lodge No. 134, in attending divine service at Christ
Church on the morning of the coming St. John's Day (Dec. 27), the occa-
sion being thus explained :

It will be just one hundred and twenty-five years (A. D. 1778) since
George Washington attended morning service at Christ Church on St.
John's Day, three hundred members of the fraternity of F. and A. M.
assembling on that occasion, so history records.

The annual election was held at the December quarterly :

248 APPENDIX — PART I.

James W. Brown was elected grand master; William A. Sinn re-
elected grand secretary. The address of both is Masonic Temple, Phila-
delphia.

The annual communication was held December 28, 1903. At the out-
set of his annual address Grand Master Tennis thus philosophizes:

The concluding words of a grand master attract but little attention in
comparison with those announcing his purposes, hopes, and ambition when
assuming this high station. Duties performed, promises fulfilled, expecta-
tions realized, or the reverse of those conditions, are running through
your minds, and it is not the purpose of this address to add color to victory
or excuse to defeat, each having been meet with a conscientious desire to
do good and not evil.

He is greatly impressed with the duty of the grand lodge to do what
it has just resolved upon — establish under its own auspices homes for the
indigent Mason and his dependents, and in this connection, says :

Let us do what we can to assist grand lodge in the furtherance of this
resolution with all possible speed, that mockery may be silenced and our
heads be no longer bowed in shame, while orators declare us a great be-
nevolent institution, founded on the principles of brotherly love, relief, and
truth, and point to charity as the chief round in our ladder which extends
from earth to heaven ; for while we are entitled to some credit in a char-
itable way, yet compared with our ability we are lamentably deficient. The
responsibility is upon us, who profess to rule and govern, to see that the
avenues are opened for a broader charity and a more generous exercise
of the virtues upon which our superstructure is built.

Freemasonry is like religion ; it must begin in the heart, and no man
or set of men should be delegated authority to direct our charities whose
sympathies are not broad enough to embrace all men as brothers and
whose charitable instinct banishes from his soul all personal and selfish
glorification; that this grand lodge has ever been free from just criticism
in this regard is a part of our unwritten history, and we may reasonably
hope to see, in the control of our Masonic homes, that same broad spirit
of helpfulness which has characterized it in the silent ministrations of our
munificent charity. ■

My faith in the charitable personnel of this grand lodge and its con-
stituent membership prompts a prediction that within ten years from the
time our proposed home or homes are opened to receive inmates, the dona-
tions and bequests both from within and without the fraternity will be
sufficiently large to maintain the charity without cost to this grand lodge.

I feel constrained to pen a line upon a subject that must be apparent
to every grand master or official brother whose duties bring him in touch
with the ambition and personal characteristics of our brethren, and that is
the inconsistency of friendship as taught by all the lessons in Freemasonry.

We protest against this prevalent disposition to narrow the Masonic
definition of charity to mere alms-giving. Least of all our great jurisdic-
tions has Pennsylvania reason to hang her head in shame when orators
declare us a great benevolent institution founded on Brotherly Love, Re-
lief and Truth, for even on the grand lodge side her great relief funds

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have long been noted ; while we doubt not the more pervading, far-reach-
ing and effective ministries of the lodge and the individual, of which the
world at large knows nothing,' reach as high a mark in that jurisdiction
as in any other ; and we do not hesitate to say that the youngest and poor-
est jurisdiction, wherein the scantily-furnished apartments like the Lodge
Room over Simpkins' Store are the rule, need not bow its head in shame,
even when the benevolent, the relief, the mere alms-giving side is magni-
fied unduly by orators who have never got deep enough into the signifi-
cance of this great fellowship to catch at a tithe of what charity is in a
Masonic sense.

But it has become so much of a fashion to magnify the monumental,
spectacular side of Masonic beneficience that even one like Brother Tennis
— who has thought deeply enough on the subject to have caught the
broader significance of Masonry — falls into the habit. That he has thought
deeply of other aspects of the institution, the following is witness :

Too often our prejudices rule our passions for ill, and we forget that
one of the lessons Masonry teaches is to think better of the world in which
we live, and especially of our brethren, and so to value the one as to think
it worth while to try and make it nobler and better, and the other as to
never be willing to have the bonds of friendship broken. One good friend,
or one true Masonic brother, is not to be weighed against the jewels of
earth. If there comes coolness or unkindness between you and a brother,
do not revile him behind his back, but come face to face and have an ex-
planation. Come together quickly before love grows cold ; clasp hands
and let the past be forgotten, for a friend or brother is too precious to be
lightly thrown aside.

That he has been thinking to some purpose on other aspects of Masonry
the following is in evidence :

Masonry needs nothing new, for her ritual is simple, impressive,
unique, and sublime; her inculcations are truths — immortal truths — with
an adaptability to our race that must exist until wrong is banished from
the world and" virtue reinstated on her ancient throne — until suffering has
no want to relieve and sorrow no tear to dry.

Let no humble brother of the blue lodge distrust the fact that all of
Masonry is contained in the three ancient degrees with the instructions of
the Royal Arch, nor let him become envious of those who claim to be his
superiors in Masonic knowledge, because they have affixed to their names
the appellation of some presiding officer in the so-called "higher bodies ;"
when these titles appear in public print they are only calculated to make
the vulgar stare, and with the right-feeling, sensible Mason or man of the
world, excite unfavorable comment.

Among his decisions — and in Pennsylvania his decisions are law until
he or some future grand master reverses them — are the following, which
we have numbered for convenience in referring to them :

4. A lodge in this jurisdiction cannot confer the degrees upon a peti-
tioner to another jurisdiction. (See Ahiman Rezon, Section 28, page 52.)

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5. Moneys belonging to the lodge should be kept by the treasurer
separate and apart from other funds, and if the lodge designates a par-
ticular hanking institution in which the funds of the lodge shall be depos-
ited, the lodge, and not the treasurer or his bondsman, is responsible for
the safety of the funds while in the banking institution designated by the
lodge.

6. Where a rejected petitioner for initiation and membership has re-
moved from the vicinity of the rejecting lodge, and established a residence
elsewhere, and thereafter presents a petition to the rejecting lodge, such
lodge must inquire of the lodge nearest his then present place of residence
whether there is Masonic objection to its acting on said petition as re-
quired by the Ahiman Rezon, article 21, section 8, page 64, provided the
petitioner has resided in the new location a sufficient time to establish a
residence.

7. Grand lodge holds no Restriction over lodge funds, except that
they shall not be used for other than Masonic purposes.

8. Objection made privately to a worshipful master, or by letter ad-
dressed to him, is not sufficient to prevent the initiation of an approved
petitioner, unless the master is willing to make the objection his own,
makes it in open lodge, and causes it to be entered upon the minutes.

11. It is within the power of the worshipful master to call any brother
to the chair whom he deems competent to perform the work of that station.

12. It is entirely in the pleasure and judgment of the worshipful
master whether or not he resigns his station temporarily to a district dep-
uty grand master.

17. A petitioner, after being approved and before he has received his
first degree, losing the sight in one eye, is physically disqualified and can-
not be initiated.

18. A lodge-room cannot be sublet to a lodge of Eastern Star.

20. Refused to sanction a society the membership of which was to be
confined entirely to Master Masons.

22. No Masonic burial service can be performed at a cremation.

28. Although a lodge may hold two meetings on the same day, it is
an evasion of the Ahiman Rezon to make more than five Freemasons
thereon.

We learn from another source that the inhibition of No. 4 also holds
good as between lodges within the jurisdiction.

We copy No. 5 because it is something which every lodge should
know. No. 6 is in accord with an approved Illinois decision. No. 7 we
think is good law, but not all jurisdictions agree with us — notably Cali-
fornia. No. 8 is not in accord with our law ; all that is required of the
Illinois master is that he shall announce the bare fact of objection in open
lodge, and have it entered on the minutes. No. 11 reflects long-time undis-
puted usage in Illinois, and No. 12 is good law unless the deputy comes
clad with special powers from the executive.

Referring to No. 17, we recall no period in the history of this juris-
diction when the loss of sight in one eye, the other being good, would

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have been held to disqualify for initiation. We have had no decisions on
the subject of No. 18, but from random conversation among the male
members of the androgynous order, we have sometimes wondered how
long it would be before the Masons would be turned out of their own
domicils. It is a leap in the dark to say that we approve of No. 20, but
the chances are as ten to one that the grand master is right. May his
tribe increase. No. 22 is a survival, probably soon to be itself incinerated,
it we may judge by the reversal of similar decisions in other jurisdictions.
No. 28 is for information, contributing as it does towards the general
answer to the question of how many brethren may be made in one day.

The grand master in speaking of beautifying the temple regretted his
inability to announce a museum department in connection with the library,
to the collection for which the librarian is daily adding. Two curios from
among the grand master's edicts, seem to us, at this distance to be worthy
of a place therein ; we submit them for inspection :

Letter "G."- — The letter "G" forms no part of our ceremony, is not a
proper lodge decoration, and must not appear on lodge notices.

October 20. — Set aside the action of Lodge No. 521 in admitting to
membership Brother W. W. I. without inquiry of the right worshipful
grand secretary if there was anything upon the records against him.

Another edict (if not of general interest) of special interest to the
recipients of non-conforming honorariums, is the following :

Past Masters' Jewels. — Notwithstanding the plain law on the subject
that the jewels of the officers of subordinate lodges are of silver, and that
the past masters' jewel is of silver, we find many lodges presenting past
masters with gold jewels, or part gold and part silver, and some even dec-
orated with precious stones, all of which is contrary to our usages and
customs; and henceforth no jewels except of silver may be purchased by
lodge funds, nor will a worshipful master permit a past master to attend
meetings of the lodge wearing other than the regulation jewel as described
in the Ahiman Rezon.

Seven new lodges had been constituted during the year.

After the installation of the elective grand officers, the retiring grand
master was presented with a past grand master's jewel.

Grand Master W. Holt Apgar and Past Grand Master Josiah W.
Ewan, of New Jersey, were received as visitors ; $500 was appropriated
for the relief of the typhoid fever sufferers at Butler, Pa. ; and a series
of amendments to the Ahiman Rezon offered, reducing the rate of taxation
fifty per cent, which go over to the December quarterly of 1904, for action.

The report on correspondence (242 pp.) is again by Bro. James M.
Lamberton, whose promotion to the chairmanship of the committee we
noted in our last report. He has been doing the work of the committee
since 1900, and we are glad to see him wear the honors and more than
glad to see that his grand lodge appreciated his work so highly that they
appropriated $500 in part payment therefor.

252 APPENDIX — PART I.

Brother Lamberton's notice of Illinois is very full; with a non-com-
mittal notice of the pleasing innovation of the musical opening, he passes
on to the address of Grand Master Moulton, which shows "a vigilant and
faithful officer." The business of the session, the finances, the oration, the
home legislation all receive notice, and he chronicles with great satisfac-
tion the final adoption, without amendment, of our special report on the
proposed recognition of certain foreign grand bodies, of which he is kind
enough to say that it fully justifies our adverse recommendation.

As we have generally transferred the uncomplimentary comments on
the ''red tape" which deprived a deceased brother of Masonic burial, we
let Brother Tennis give the story from his point of view, omitting only
the brief reference to it which we took from his report of last year, and
for which, in the following, the stars do vicarious duty :

In our report last year, referring to an earnest, indeed, we may say
strenuous, letter of the grand master of Illinois to our grand master, with
regard to the case of a brother who had failed to receive a Masonic burial,
we said, without knowing the circumstances of the case :

As we have noticed that our most worshipful brother's letter has_ oc-
casioned some comment, we have taken the trouble to investigate the facts
in the case mentioned, and find that the responsibility for the failure of the
brother to receive a Masonic burial rests with the grand master of Illi-
nois, who, although advised in time, did nothing except telegraph the Illi-
nois lodge that he "knew of no law or usage requiring that permission be
given to any lodge to bury any deceased Master Mason."

The facts are as follows : Late on the afternon of Thursday, June 19,
1902, the secretary of Lodge No. 43, at Lancaster, received a request for
Masonic burial from the sisters of Brother S., who had died in Denver,
and who, as the secretary found out after some trouble, was a member of
Lodge No. 102, at Rockford, Illinois. He at once wired the Rockford
lodge: "Brother S.'s sisters desire a Masonic funeral for their brother.
Have your grand master telegraph the grand master of Pennsylvania to
request Lodge No. 43 to attend to it."

The funeral was fixed for four p. m. Sunday, the 22d.

Friday morning, at 10:50, a reply was received: "Such permission of
grand master not necessary." The secretary at once telegraphed: "Our
grand master must direct us to conduct funeral, or we cannot do it. Your
grand master will have to ask him."

This message, as appears from a letter of Grand Master Moulton's,
was telegraphed by the master of Rockford lodge to his grand master.

Our Lancaster brethren went ahead with their preparations for the
funeral, and not till about 2 :30 on Sunday afternoon did a telegram arrive
from the master of the Rockford lodge, saying. J'Our grand master tele-
graphs, knows no law requiring such permission."

Under the circumstances, our brother could do nothing at all. It is
not to be expected that our "usages" (for which we have good and suffi-
cient reasons,) should be known to Brother Moulton, but, having been

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informed of them, even if they did not meet his approval, he should have
complied, and afterwards, had he felt so disposed, he could have, at his
leisure, taken the matter up with our grand master.

Upon receipt of a letter from Brother Moulton, dated June 23, Grand
Master Tennis, who had known nothing of the case, at once granted the
necessary permission, but too late, as it turned out.

Our most worshipful brother need have no anxiety with regard to such
cases, as his imagination suggests ; when they arise, they will be treated
by the grand master of Pennsylvania in the way that true Masonic charity
dictates.

This account shows, what we have never doubted, that the Lancaster
brethren were anxious to do their whole duty in the matter; and that they
did not — in view of their knowledge of Grand Master Moulton's excus-
able ignorance of the existence of such a regulation in Pennsylvania, and
the improbability of its existence anywhere in a form to touch Masonic
funerals — that they did not take the responsibility of disregarding the let-
ter of the mere formality, rather than miss the substance of a higher obli-
gation which they were solicitous to fulfill, and face the small chance that
their action would not be condoned (if not gratefully forgiven), argues a
degree of repression which we cannot believe exists elsewhere than in
Pennsylvania. We feel quite sure that had a knowledge of the situation
come accidentally to the ears of Grand Master Tennis, no reason for the
existence of the regulation would have been good enough or sufficient
enough to have restrained him from telegraphing to No. 43 the request
which the brethren of that lodge thought essential, and that without wait-
ing for the desire of the family of the deceased to come to him through
Grand Master Moulton. And yet, as it seems to us, the office of grand
master has been so magnified on the one hand, and the lodges held so
closely in leading strings on the other, that it might never occur to a
Pennsylvania lodge that a regulation may be only a means, not an end.

When, only a few years ago, -this requirement that all correspondence
between lodges in different jurisdictions should pass through the hands
of the respective grand masters first cropped out — for during a period of
nearly 170 years after a plurality of grand lodges had existed, the craft
got along comfortably without any such restriction — we protested against
it as the beginning of a process of nibbling away the rights of the lodges,
for we hold that it is as much the birth-right of each and every lodge to
correspond with any other regular lodge as it is the birth-right of every
Mason to correspond with any other regular Mason, the world over, on
any subject of common interest growing out of their Masonic character,
withut let, hindrance or censorship. But we did not succeed in interest-
ing the members of the guild to any considerable extent. The fad spread
because as each new grand master run up against the existence of the
restriction in some other in his reading or his official correspondence, as
a rule he forthwith determined that no other jurisdiction should have any

254 APPENDIX — PART I.

frills that his own did not possess, and so he, too, made a decision to the
same effect. Jt is an unwarrantable interference with the rights of lodges;
submission to it unprotesting invites further encroachments upon the in-
dependence of the craft, and the subject ought to have now the consid-
eration which it did not have in its inception.

Brother Lamberton quotes, with agreement, our dissent from the prop-
osition that attending divine service as a lodge is a Masonic occasion ; con-
fesses to having had doubts as to the wisdom or correctness of their action
in recognizing the Grand Lodge of Costa Rica, but disagrees with the
following:

"We have never thought it probable that the words 'descended of hon-
est parents,' referred to the question of legitimate birth ; and we know
of nothing else to hang this decision on."

Of this he says :

We wish our brother had stated what he thinks the words "de-
scended of honest parents" do refer to, for upon this provision of the
Charges of a Freemason, as given in the constitutions of 1723, this de-
cision hangs. When it is recalled that the word "honest comes to us,
through "konestus" from the Latin word "honor," honor, we are at a loss
to understand how illegitimate children can be said to be "descended of
honest parents."

We have thought that the expression was something of a glittering
generally, i. e., that it must have meant descended from families of the gen-
erally reputable class, and did not reflect the perhaps more obvious view
which he takes, for the reason that at that nascent period of Masonry, the
escutcheons of royalty and the nobility, a class which the fraternity courted
to a considerable extent, were so often marked with the bar sinister, with-
out affecting their standing in the community, that such use of the ex-
pression was unlikely.

We quoted to criticize, a decision that "No lodge can pass a resolu-
tion instructing the representative of the lodge to grand lodge to cast his
representative vote for any particular candidate. The representative of a
lodge in the matter of annual elections is what his name implies, a repre-
sentative of the absent past masters," etc.

Whereat we said :

"Just how the name 'representative of a lodge' implies that he is only
the mouthpiece of the absent past masters we presume we shall never
know. We presume it is somehow wrapped up in the awful sanctities of
the Ahiman Rezon, whose awe-inspiring title always makes us shiver at
the thought of questioning its mysteries."

We said, moreover, that we were at loss, from the language used, to
know whither the inhibition extended to all subjects, and went off at half-
cock, as Brother Lamberton shows, to discuss the general proposition that
a lodge has the right to instruct its representatives. He says :

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We must confess that we, too, "are at a loss" to know what clearer
language could be used to express just what was intended. The matter
for decision was as to the right to instruct upon the single point of voting
for grand officers at the annual election. For the benefit of our brother
we quote from the Ahiman Rezon, whose title seems to move him strangely,
the following:

"Art. IX. Sec. 17. On all questions before the grand lodge, when a
vote by lodges is requested by the representatives of five lodges, and in
the election of the grand officers, each representative shall be entitled to
cast one vote for each member of his lodge who is a member of the grand
lodge, and who is not present.

"Sec. 18. A lodge when duly assembled may, by vote of a majority
of the members present, instruct its master, wardens, and representative,
on any subject to-be considered in the grand lodge, and such instructions,
recorded on the minutes of the lodge, shall be binding upon such officers
and representative, except that any past master may direct the representa-
tive to vote specially for him.

We are glad to know that Pennsylvania agrees to the general principle
that a lodge has a right to instruct its representatives, and it is a crumb
of comfort to know that our presumption that the mystery was wrapped up
in the sanctities of the Ahiman Rezon was correct. Our brother will under-
stand how much easier it is for one whose habit of thought has been
formed under the influence of the constitutions of 1723 (and the regula-
tions thereunto annexed.) which define the grand lodge as consisting of
the masters and wardens of all the regular particular lodges on record,
in which the past masters have no weight as a class, to go wide of the
mark when dealing in the dark with the conditions disclosed by his quota-
tions from the Ahiman Rezon.

We did the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania injustice, too, in jumping
to the conclusion that it possibly did not claim for itself and exercise the
power to wholly undo, on appeal, any wrong done by a lodge, a condition
of affairs which exists in one or two jurisdictions in the United States.

In the case by which we were misled, he explains that the point upon
which our criticism was made was not properly before the committee for
decision, and says :

If Brother Robbins were not a layman, he would realize the danger of
doing injustice in passing upon questions not properly before one for de-
cision. We are sure that in Masonry, as in civil life, the regular, orderly
method of proceeding is the best. Further, for the benefit of our brother,
we may say that hardly a year goes by without application to the grand
lodge for the remission or reduction of penalties imposed by lodges on
their members ; that these applications have always been acted upon by
the grand lodge, sometimes granted and sometimes refused ; but the power
of the grand lodge in the premises has never, so far as we are informed,
been questioned.

There are many things in this very able and judicial-minded report
which we should be glad to take up for the benefit of our readers, but we
have already been beguiled into using time that we haven't got.

256 APPENDIX— PART I.

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, 1904.

29TH Annual. Charlottetown. June 24.

The frontispiece of this volume is a standing portrait of Grand Master
Benjamin Rogers, St., in full regalia.

Eight past grand masters and the representatives of twenty-five juris-
dictions graced the insular court, the envoy from Illinois, William H.
AlTKENj being one of the diplomatic corps.

Grand Master Rogers referred with gratitude to the fact that the offi-
cial chain of the grand lodge remained unbroken, but the hand of the
Reaper had fallen with unusual weight among the past masters, of whose
number James Muirhead, James R. Davison, Benjamin Champion,
Daniel Ross and Arthur McEwen had been taken.

The grand master reports a generally prosperous condition of the
craft throughout the jurisdiction, all of whose lodges save one he had
visited.

The grand lecturer reported a fair degree of progress in disseminat-
ing the work, but they were handicapped by the fact that neither he nor
any one else was quite sure of having all of the ritual.

The routine business of the grand lodge was well dispatched, but
apart from the chartering of one new lodge and selecting Souris as the
next place of meeting, were of only local interest.

Benjamin Rogers, Sr., of Charlottetown, grand master ; Neil Mac-
Kelvie, Summerside, grand secretary, were re-elected.
There is no report on correspondence.

QUEBEC, 1904.

34TH Annual. Montreal. January 27.

This volume opens with a fine half-tone standing portrait of Grand
Master John B. Tresidder, in full regalia.

Six past grand masters and the representatives of thirty jurisdictions
were present, among the latter the envoy from Illinois, E. J. J. Rothwell,
of Montreal.

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE. 257

The necrology of the year includes the names of Matthew Burnie,
past grand junior warden; Thomas Ryan, past grand registrar; Rev.
H. J. Petry, past district grand chaplain ; C. R. T. Garrioch, past district
deputy grand master, and Past Masters D. Anderson, John Alexander,
E. B. Gustin, Charles Marshall, Thos. Soune, Lastin Snyder, A. G.
Isaacson and J. T. LeSueur.

A notable event of the year was the centennial celebration of Golden
Rule Lodge No. 5, at Stanstead, the public side of which seems to have
been participated in by nearly the whole population of Stanstead and the
neighboring villages of Rock Island and Derby Line, the latter just over
the border in Vermont. Over eight hundred Masons were in the pro-
cession :

Referring to his refusal to grant a dispensation for a new lodge, the
grand master says :

I also declined an application made through grand secretary of New
York for waiver of jurisdiction over a resident of this province in favor
of a lodge across the border owing to the lodge near the applicant's resi-
dence having recently rejected him and who were not inclined to agree
to a waiver.

It would be interesting to know how long, if at all before this, the
doctrine has obtained in Quebec, that the grand master shares with the
lodges their territorial and personal jurisdiction. We would also be
pleased if Brother Chambers will inform us whether in the case of tres-
pass on the jurisdictional rights of the Grand Lodge of Rhode Island, the
order of the grand master to the Quebec lodge to delete the name of the
brother from their register of membership was held to deprive him of his
Masonic rights.

The grand master thus reports the only decision he records:

During the year I was asked for a ruling as to whether or not non-
payment of dues was to be treated as a Masonic offence, and if suspen-
sion followed, whether a new ballot for reinstatement would be necessary,
and also if the brother so suspended would be required to pay lodge dues
during the interim.

After giving the matter careful thought and consulting authorities, I
gave the following ruling: "That it was not a Masonic offence, and
would not require a ballot for reinstatement, that the moment the brother
paid the amount owing at the time of his suspension, he became by that
act a member in good standing, and that in view of the fact that his lodge
was not required to pay grand lodge dues for a suspended brother and that
he was not in the enjoyment of any Masonic privileges during his suspen-
sion, he should not be required to pay dues during such time."

This is interesting, apart from its manifest equity and good sense, as
disclosing the fact that in a jurisdiction thirty-three years old the questions
involved should not be specifically covered by enactments.

258 APPENDIX — PART I.

In Illinois no dues accrue during suspension, but we regret to say that
the Illinois law declares the non-payment of dues (except for good cause)
to be "an infraction of Masonic law and a violation of a Masonic cove-
nant,'' which we do not believe to be true ; and that hence a law based
thereon, which deprives a Mason of rights for which he has paid an ade-
quate equivalent in fees, because he does not choose to pay an additional
sum for lodge privileges is unjust and unmasonic.

"What most grand masters euphemistically call attending divine service,
Grand Master Tresidder with refreshing naivete calls "Church Parades,"
under which heading he says :

Church parades have been frequent during the year, and, as a rule,
well attended ; this latter was notably the case in this city on Sunday, the
27th December last, the anniversary of our Patron Saint, St. John the
Evangelist, when upwards of one thousand brethren marched in line from
the Masonic Temple to Christ Church Cathedral, where a beautiful and
specially prepared form of service was rendered; the sermon on this
occasion, which was a very impressive one, being delivered by our much
esteemed grand chaplain, Wor. Bro. Rev. J. H. Jekill. His Grace Arch-
bishop Bond and eight or nine other clergymen, all members of our order,
being present and taking part in the ceremony. The offering, which was
a very liberal one, was devoted to the permanent benevolent fund of grand
lodge.

He thinks these joint advertisements have an excellent effect on the
fraternity and should be encouraged; and here we differ.

The report of the grand secretary (Will H. Whyte) shows this to
have been a record year in all the things which indicate a healthy pros-
perity. Of the permanent benevolent funds he says :

I am pleased to report that every lodge save one has contributed to
the permanent benevolent fund, and we can confidently expect that in a
few years Masonic beds in hospitals, assistance to aged and decrepit
brethren and the education of orphan children of departed brethren will
prove to everyone that we are not unmindful of our obligations. There
has been some little misunderstanding over this fund in a few quarters,
but in accompanying the M. W. the grand master in his visits we en-
deavored to explain the many reasons for this fund and the help it would
be in the future as soon as the income enabled it to be availed of. I also
have had considerable correspondence on this subject and am also pleased
to report how unanimously the various lodges have responded.

The grand lodge concurred in the following recommendations of the
committee on foreign relations :

1. That fraternal recognition be extended to the Grand Lodge of
Costa Rica.

2. That the request of the Grand Lodge of Western Australia for
recognition and an exchange of representatives be granted by this grand
lodge.

3. That the applications of the Grand Orients of Hayti, Lusitano and
Brazil for a renewal of the exchange of representatives be held over for
further inquiry.

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE. 259

The committee thus refer to the Grand Lodge of Western Australia,
and therein reflect what we think is the universal consensus as to the un-
tenable position of the Grand Lodge of Scotland :

Its rights are only apparently questioned by the Grand Lodge of Scot-
land, which continues, despite the protests of the new grand lodge, to
charter new lodges within its territory, on the very untenable ground that
it was not sufficient that a majority of all the lodges in the jurisdiction
should have united in its formation, but that it was necessary that a ma-
jority of the lodges under each separate jurisdiction should have agreed to
the proposal.

In his remarks on Costa Rica, the chairman says that "careful exam-
ination shows that the grand lodge constitution has been framed with a
due regard to the original plan and the ancient landmarks and practices
of the fraternity."

Some things seem to have escaped his observation which caught the
eye of Brother Drummond, which in the judgment of that very conserva-
tive authority, violated the original plan, reversed the practices and re-
pudiated the landmarks. After pointing out how the Costa Rican code
practically annuls the voting power in grand lodge of the master and war-
dens (who with the grand master at their head arc the grand lodge ac-
cording to the original plan,) Brother Drummond says:

We regret that the old usage is departed from. The master and war-
dens have so long been the representatives of the lodge that we regret
that the new grand lodge should, without so far as we know a single pre-
cedent, introduce this innovation.

We have italicized a few words to emphasize the departure from the
practices of Freemasonry both ancient and modern.

Brother Drummond's examination disclosed something more. He

says :

Another thing is greatly to be regretted. The code not only does not
recognize the ancient landmarks, but really repudiates them. The usages
and customs of the craft are "subject always to the limits imposed by this
constitution and to the special requirements of this jurisdiction as ex-
pressed in its laws." The conservative grand lodges in the United States
will hesitate to recognize this grand lodge if it persists in maintaining this
doctrine."

The committee on address thus report on the grand master's ruling
touching non-payment of dues, and their report was adopted :

The members of your committee are pleased to notice the ruling of
the M. W. the grand master as to the signification of "Suspension for non-
payment of dues." It is true that article 240 of the constitution seems to
allow lodges to treat such non-payment as "a Masonic offence," but cer-
tainly, unless specially so constituted, a default to pay, though punishable,
should not be termed an "offence," in the light of a crime against Ma-
sonry.

260 APPENDIX — PART I.

The effect of this was modified by an amendment of the written law,
the following being offered to take the place of the section of the consti-
tution governing the matter:

"Any brother (able to fulfill his obligation in that respect) who shall
neglect or refuse to pay his lodge dues when called upon for such payment
shall be liable to suspension by the lodge, as provided for in section 241,
but if so suspended he •-hall be immediately restored by the lodge, without
ballot, on payment of all arrears owing at the time of his suspension. No
lodge shall carry a member on its books more than two years in arrears
of dues without taking action thereon.''

This was amended by the addition of the following, and the whole
then adopted :

"Nevertheless, any lodge may provide by its by-laws that such sus-
pended brother can only be restored upon a two-thirds open vote of the
members present at a regular meeting. — Carried.

An appropriation of $350 was made towards the erection of a monu-
ment to Past Grand Master John Hamilton Graham, who piloted the
grand lodge through the first stormy years of its existence.

John B. Tresidder, grand master, and Will. H. Whyte, grand secre-
tary, both of Montreal, were re-elected.

The report on correspondence (108 pp.) is from the practiced hand of
Past Grand Master E. T. D. Chambers, and is up to its customary mark
of ability and courtesy. We regret that the Illinois proceedings failed to
find a place in his review.

SCOTLAND.

i68th Anual. Edinburgh. November 30.

Our last notice of the proceedings of this grand lodge was of the
quarterly communication of May 3, 1903, and of the minutes of the grand
committee down to July 27.

At the quarterly communication of August 6, 1903, J. D. Dalrymple,
of Woodhead, substitute grand master, presided, and announced the con-
tinued illness of the grand Master Mason, Sir James Hozier, but that he
was very much better, and looked forward to early restoration to health.

The representative of Illinois, W. Bro. Miles McInnes, of Dumfries,
grand director of ceremonies, was at his post, as he was also at all the
communications during the vear.

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE. 261

Five charters were granted, four of which were for lodges in Trans-
vaal, and one at Blantyre, British Central Africa.

At a meeting of the grand committee held September 17, 1903, the
resignation of Lord Northcote, grand master of All Scottish Freemasonry
in India, was read, and it was agreed that the lodges in India be asked to
recommend a brother for appointment as his successor.

The master of Lodge Eastern Scotia No. 923, at Kowloon, China, was
granted a power of dispensation, to shorten the interval between degrees
in emergent cases to not less than one week instead of two weeks.

Pending a motion to adopt a submitted sketch of a proposed Master
Mason diploma of grand lodge, an amendment that the sketch be not
adopted inasmuch as it did not contain the figure of St. Andrew, was
beaten by a vote of 13 to 6, and the original motion carried.

Lord Saltoun, presiding, suggested that in view of the regrettable
fact that Grand Master Hozier had decided that he could not accept a
nomination for another year, the committee should nominate the Hon.
Charles Manle Ramsay as his successor, which was agreed to with
acclamation.

At the grand committee meeting of October 22, 1903, Grand Master
Hozier was sufficiently restored to preside.

The minutes of more than local interest are those of the foreign and
colonial (sub) committee relating to Western Australia, Queensland and
New Zealand.

Touching the first-named jurisdiction it seems that a modus vivendi
had been reached whereby without recognition fraternal intercourse was
maintained between the members of the Scottish lodges and the brethren
of the obedience of the Grand Lodge of Western Australia, which con-
tinued until the Grand Lodge of Scotland chartered new lodges in the
jurisdiction, when, as will be seen by the following, the natural result fol-
lowed :

Overtures passed between the district grand master and the represent-
atives of the so-called grand lodge, with a view to an amicable arrange-
ment. The district grand master, at the quarterly communication of the
district grand lodge, in August last, recommended it to recommend the
Grand Lodge of Scotland to recognize the so-called Grand Lodge of
Western Australia, on condition of its withdrawing its resolution, and
recognizing the new lodges recently chartered by the Grand Lodge of Scot-
land; but the district grand master's proposal was rejected by a majority
of 68 votes to 16, and the strongest expressions of loyalty, on the part of
Scottish brethren to the Grand Lodge of Scotland, were passed, and it
very strongly urged grand lodge to adhere to its resolution not to recog-
nize the so-called Grand Lodge of Western Australia.

We find no report of further negotiations in the proceedings of the
grand lodge or the minutes of the grand committee, but we regret to find

262 APPENDIX — PART I.

that a new lodge was chartered in Western Australia as late as May, 1904,
by the Grand Lodge of Scotland, which gives no promise of near agree-
ment.

Referring to Queensland, the committee had under consideration a
request received by the grand secretary from certain leading members of
the District Grand Lodge (Scottish) of Queensland, for a commission "to
visit the colony and inquire into disputes and misunderstandings and dis-
agreements which had arisen between the district grand master and certain
of the members of the district grand lodge," which we presume to be the
foreshadowings of the birth of an independent grand lodge. At all events
we find the following in the minutes of the foreign and colonial commit-
tee of July 21, 1904:

Queensland. — A letter was submitted from Bro. Charles H. Harley,
Brisbane, Queensland, professing to act as secretary of a pretended body
designating itself "The Grand Lodge of Queensland."

A communication was read from the district grand master of Queens-
land, intimating that the following brethren, viz : — A. M. Hertzberg, P. M.
No. 842; E. E. Denny Day, P. M. No. 842; James Hipwood, P. M. No.
S05 ; James H. Henzell, P. M. No. 805 ; H. G. Skyrme, P. M. No. 680 ;
John Lang, P. M. No. 435; W. Lewis, master No. 504; Robert Lee
Bryce. P. M. No. 455, and P. D. G. secretary; W. J. Smont, M. M. No.
897; Evan Reis, M. M. No. 897; C. R. Miles, M. M. No. 897; F. Watts,
M. M. No. 897 — had been suspended by him. The committee recommend
grand lodge to approve of and confirm the suspensions, during the pleasure
of grand lodge, with the exception of that of Bro. Robert Lee Bryce, past
district grand secretary, and while continuing the suspension as against
him, in respect that serious and additional charges had been brought
against him, the committee recommend that he be cited to appear before
grand committee, either personally or by mandatory, at Edinburgh on the
24th day of November, 1904, to answer these charges and to show cause
why he should not be expelled from Masonry.

Representations having been made to grand lodge that certain brethren
in Queensland had seceded from their lodges, and had carried away the
charters, books, jewels, papers, clothing, and paraphernalia of their re-
spective lodges, the committee recommend grand committee to authorize
the district grand master of Queensland to institute at the proper instance,
actions in the civil courts of Queensland, and to carry them to a conclusion,
whereby the charters and other articles, the property of lodges there, may
be recovered, and that grand lodge undertakes to bear the expense incur-
red in such actions, and to pay any expenses for which the pursuers in
these actions may be found liable.

The committee had under consideration correspondence which had
passed between the Scottish and New Zealand Masonic authorities, which
we infer proved to be fruitful, as we find the following in the minutes of
the committee for July 21, 1904 :

New Zealand. — Communications were submitted to the meeting from
the three district grand masters of New Zealand, containing observations
and suggestions in reference to the adjustment of the articles of recog-
nition of the Grand Lodge of New Zealand by the Grand Lodge of Scot-

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land. The articles of recognition were adjusted, and the committee recom-
mend grand committee to authorize grand secretary to communicate them
to the Grand Lodge of New Zealand.

The minutes of this last named meeting foreshadow the appointment,
on the recommendation of the lodges in India, of Lord Lamington, the
governor of Bombay, as grand master of All Scottish Freemasonry in
India.

The quarterly communication of November 5, 1903, at which Grand
Master HozieR presided, was largely given to the consideration of the
effect of the Licensing (Scotland) Act of 1903, prescribing the conditions
on which exciseable liquor may be sold, upon Masonic lodges. It was
the opinon of eminent legal counsel consulted that it would be necessary
that lodges should register as clubs (or — and this was not suggested —
cease to look upon the wine when it is red).

The provincial grand master of the Western Province of Cape Colony
(John Andrews) was welcomed as a visitor; Lord Northcote was made
an honorary member of the grand lodge, and the officers for the ensuing
year were nominated.

The annual communication was held November 30, 1903, The Hon.
James Hozier, M. P., on the throne.

Four lodges were chartered, one in Western Australia and four in
South Africa.

The election was "a short horse, soon curried :"

The grand master declared the elective offices vacant, and in accord-
ance with the unanimous resolution of grand lodge of 5th of November
moved that The Honourable Charles Maule Ramsay be elected grand
master mason for the ensuing year, and that the other office-bearers as
recommended by grand lodge be elected.

This was carried unanimously and with acclamation.

The grand master having been installed and proclaimed, appointed
J. D. G. Dalrymple grand master depute, and Col. R. King Stewart
substitute grand master, whom, with the other office-bearers he then pro-
ceeded to install.

The grand lodge closed and about 370 brethren with the grand master
at their head proceeded to celebrate the Festival of St. Andrew, which
proved to be an unlimited banquet served by a "limited" firm whose style
tells a tale of two cities, followed by lots of good speaking, good singing
and good fellowship, until "about ten o'clock," when the proceedings were
terminated with the singing of "Auld Lang Syne" and the National An-
them.

At the December (24th) meeting of the grand committee, the grand
master depute, presiding announced the death of Sir Michael Shaw-

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Stewart, who was grand master mason from 1873 to 1881, and of whom
he says :

It would be difficult to overestimate the services Sir Michael rendered
to the grand lodge at a very critical and trying period of its history, and
no one but a man of exceptional force of character could have contended
— and contended successfully — with the difficulties in which the grand
lodge at that time was plunged.

For eight years he presided over the deliberations of grand lodge with
eminent ability and dignity, and with, occasionally, a quaint humour all his
own.

I never knew anyone who had a higher view of the importance and
value of Freemasonry than Sir Michael, and there never was a more de-
voted craftsman. Apart from his services to grand lodge he, for a period
of nearly half a century, efficiently discharged the duties of provincial
grand master of Renfrewshire West, an office which had been held by his
father before him, and in which he was succeeded by his son, the present
distinguished and worthy head of the Ardgowan family, Sir Hugh Shaw-
Stewart.

We are glad to have in our possession as a souvenir of our first ap-
pointment as representative of the Grand Lodge of Scotland near the
Grand Lodge of Illinois, a commission bearing the autograph of the de-
ceased.

At the quarterly communication of February 4. 1904. our representative,
who has been promoted to the office of grand Bible-bearer, was present.
Grand Master Ramsey presided. Referring to the death of Sir Michael
Shaw-Stewart, he said it was only a short time since grand lodge had
offered him their congratulations on having attained the occasion of his
golden wedding, and moved an expression of condolence with the be-
reaved family, which was carried unanimously.

Receipt of the Illinois proceedings was acknowledged with thanks.

Distinguished visitors were the Rev. Andrew Chisholm, deputy grand
master of Manitoba; H. F. Pistorius, district grand master, and James
Owen James, district grand bard of the Transvaal.

Six lodges were chartered, including one in the Transvaal, one in Cape
Colony, one at Malta, and one in North Queensland; and a newr district
grand lodge (North Queensland) was established.

The work of revising the constitution and laws of the grand lodge
which had occupied the attention of the grand committee for a long time
was reported to the grand lodge at a special communication held April 14,
1904, and adopted. The grand master (C. M. Ramsay) presided.

Under the code as adopted, the charter of a lodge must be present at
every meeting, "in view of and open for the inspection of the brethren ;"
the minimum fee for the degrees is three pounds three shillings, which shall
entitle him to receive the degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft

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(including the mark), and Master Mason (including registration and di-
ploma), all payable at initiation, and before receiving the mark two shill-
ings and six-pence for registration and diploma. The rule covering
petitions, ballot, etc., is as follows :

No candidate for initiation into Freemasonry, or affiliation to a lodge,
shall be admitted a member thereof until he produces an application stat-
ing his name, age, profession, residence, and a declaration that he has
never been refused by any other lodge, or if so, when and where. Such
application shall be subscribed by two Master Masons of the lodge in
good standing, the character and qualifications of the applicant fully in-
quired into, and his fees paid, when, if the brethren express themselves
satisfied by ballot in open lodge, he may be admitted. Three blackballs shall
exclude a candidate. Lodges in the colonies and in foreign parts may
enact that two blackballs shall exclude. None but Master Masons of the
lodge, in good standing, shall be entitled to vote."

It will be seen by the following that "work by courtesy" is permitted :

A brother about to be passed or raised must, previous to the ceremo-
nial, if not already a member of the lodge officiating, be affiliated as a
member in the degree preceeding that to be conferred. But it shall be
competent for a lodge under the Scottish constitution as a favour, without
affiliation, and always in conformity with rule 162, to pass or raise a mem-
ber of a Scottish-holding lodge, at the request of the master and wardens
thereof; and this shall have the same effect as if the_said member had
been passed or raised in the lodge requesting the favour.

The rule covering contributions (dues) distinctly admits that they are
levied for the enjoyment of lodge privileges and not for the enjoyment of
the general rights of Masonry, Apprentices and Fellow Crafts being "ex-
cepted as having neither voice nor vote."

At the quarterly communication of May 5, 1904, the grand master
depute, J. D. G. Dalrymple, presided.

Among the apologies for absence was one from the representative
from Illinois.

The following minutes precede the taking up of business matters :

The acting grand master said that before proceeding to the business
on the billet, he was sure it would be the unanimous feeling of the mem-
bers of grand lodge, that they should express to the grand master their
deep and sincere sympathy with him in the bereavement he has sustained
by the death of his mother, the Countess Dowager of Dalhousie.

The proposal was seconded by Bro. Lieut-Colonel John Campbell,
acting substitute grand master, and unanimously agreed to, and grand sec-
retary was instructed to forward an excerpt of the minute to the most
worshipful the grand master.

On petition of the lodges in Hong Kong, "The District Grand Lodge
of Hong Kong and South China was authorized, with Bro. Dr. Gregory
Paul Jordan as district grand master, the same to be erected and Brother
Jordan installed by the district grand master of the English district grand
lodge at Hong Kong, Sir C. P. Chater.

266 APPENDIX — PART I.

Of the six new lodges chartered, one is located in North Queensland,
one in Western Australia, two in the Transvaal, and one in Natal.

A rule was adopted that no more than seven candidates shall have
any degree (except the mark) conferred upon them at one meeting.

At a meeting of the grand committee held July 21, 1904, the substitute
grand master, R. King Stewart, in the chair, announced a second sad
bereavement of the grand master in the death of his wife. The sympathy
expressed for him in this multiplication of sorrows will strike an answer-
ing chord in the hearts of craftsmen on this side of the sea that divides
and unites us.

The address of the grand master, The Rt. Hon. Charles M, Ramsay,
and the grand secretary, David Reid, is Freemason's Hall, Edinburgh.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA, 1904.

20th Annual. Adelaide. April 20.

The twenty jurisdictions represented at the half-yearly communica-
tion of October 21, 1903, did not include Illinois. The Rt. Hon. Sir Sam-
uel James Way, grand master, presided.

He announced the death of Bro. M. Salom, past senior grand warden,
who had served the craft faithfully for thirty-five years. His rank was
acquired in the district grand lodge.

Touching the centennial celebrations :

Unfortunately he was unable to be present at the centennial celebra-
tion, held in Sydney, on July 20. He considered this an historic event of
great interest to all Freemasons of Australia. He had instructed the grand
secretary to represent this grand lodge. He had been informed that the
ceremony was a great success. Brethren from all parts of the states at-
tended, and very great enthusiasm was shown. The grand lodge of New
South Wales have issued a very compact volume of the proceedings, be-
ing as complete a history of Freemasonry in Australia, from the years 1803
to 1903, as it is possible to compile. This valuable addition to Masonic
literature is deposited in the grand lodge library.

Ill health and other circumstances compelled the grand treasurer
(Philip Sausom) to retire from the position he had held for many years.
His successor, Past Senior Grand Warden R. McMichen, was elected at
this communication. The grand master says of Brother Sausom that he
had given of his best to the craft in all the offices he had held, especially
as deputy grand master he had shown great zeal and ability.

At the annual communication the grand master presided. Twenty-six

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grand jurisdictions were represented in the diplomatic corps, Illinois by
Past Senior Grand Warden J. T. McLean.

We regret to learn of the illness of Grand Secretary Cunningham,
necessitating his absence. The grand master thus refers tc it :

The M. W. grand master, in apologizing for the absence of the V. W.
grand secretary, stated this was the first time he had been absent from
grand lodge. His assiduous attention to his duties had undermined his
health. It was necessary he should have a well-earned holiday. He had
therefore been granted three months' leave of absence. A bonus had been
granted to enable him to take a trip to New Zealand. He trusted that he
would shortly return in perfect health, and be able to serve grand lodge
for many more happy years.

The grand lodge provided for an exchange of representatives with the
Grand Lodges of Missouri, Virginia, Brazil and Costa Rica. We can only
presume that the regularity of the two last named bodies was canvassed
in the board of general purposes, from which source the recommendation
for such an exchange came, although the report is silent as to their origin
and composition.

The grand inspector of lodges reports that the lodge of instruction is
not attended nearly as well as it should be.

At the half-yearly communication the board of general purposes re-
ported that His Excellency Sir George R. LeHunte, was, upon his arrival,
to assume the government of the state, presented with an address of wel-
come by the grand master and grand officers representing the craft. The
governor, who is a member of the craft in making acknowledgment ex-
pressed his great admiration for Freemasonry. It now appears that he
thinks enough of it to be willing to work in a subordinate position. At
the annual communication, he being present, the grand master accorded
him a hearty welcome, saying :

As the representative of His Most Gracious Majesty the King in
South Australia, he had endeared himself to, and was greatly respected
and esteemed by all classes of society ; we who could claim a stronger tie
had learned to love and respect him as a man and a brother. His Excel-
lency had first made his acquaintance with freemasonry in the West In-
dies, and in that district grand lodge had held office. He was now a work-
ing member of this jurisdiction, occupying the position of senior warden
of Lodge St. Afban. He would ask the members of grand lodge to give
His Excellency a loyal and fraternal welcome; this was accordingly done
by an enthusiastic outburst of applause from the brethren.

Bro. His Excellency Sir George R. LeHunte acknowledged the com-
pliment.

The grand master, Samuel J. Way (lieutenant-governor and chief
justice of South Australia, chancellor of the University of Adelaide,) was
re-elected, and Eustace Beardoe Grundy (proposed by the deputy grand
master, T. J. C. Hantke as his successor) was elected deputy grand mas-
ter. J. H. Cunningham remains grand secretary. The address of the
grand officers is Freemasons' Hall, Flinders street, Adelaide.

268 APPENDIX — PART I.

SOUTH CAROLINA, 1903.

127TH Annual. Charleston-. December 8.

The South Carolina volume is richly embellished, containing successful
half-tone portraits of Grand Master John R. Bellinger (whose apt and
fluent speech and charming manner quite captivated the members of our
grand lodge on the occasion of his visit four years ago) ; Walter M.
Whitehead, the retiring grand master, and Grand Secretary Charles
Inglesby, whose silvery hair and white moustache recall to us the flight
of years since he sent us, at our solicitation, the photograph which we
keep among our most prized possessions.

Four past grand masters and the representatives of twenty-nine juris-
dictions were present, the envoy from Illinois, John F. Ficken, among
them.

After an eloquent exordium. Grand Master Whiteheaad announced
the untimely death of William K. Jay, junior grand deacon, who, at the
noon of life, was assassinated at his home under circumstances peculiarly
shocking; and of Past Grand Masters Andrew Hutchison White and
William Tully Branch, aged sixty and fifty-eight respectively. Both
were prominent citizens and both greatly beloved by the fraternity.

Fifteen decisions are reported, a portion of which we copy :

1. May an Entered Apprentice apply for admission by examination
at the door of a lodge ? I ruled that he could not.

3. Can a lodge ballot for more than one candidate at a time and if
no blackball appear, declare all elected? No, the ballot must be spread
separately for each candidate, the W. M. declaring the result in each and
every case.

6. Is it not requisite under the regulation in regard to examination
in open lodge that the newly made M. M. should stand an examination on
the third degree just as he is examined as to his proficiency in the preced-
ing degrees? There is no such rule. Paragraph 2 of section 103 of the
code prescribes only that no candidate can receive a higher decree, unless
he is, before receiving it, unanimously elected, nor until by open examin-
ation in the lodge he shall have exhibited suitable proficiency. There is
no degree higher than the Master's degree, therefore no examination is
necessary and none contemplated by the law. The proper kind of candi-
date will inform himself for his own benefit and instruction.

7. A man was born and reared in South Carolina, but for years, in
following his occupation he traveled through Georgia, North Carolina, and
South Carolina. He has never resided twelve months in any one place.
Can the lodge entertain his petition? I ruled that it could not.

13. When an officer has been duly elected, will the objection of a
member stay the proceedings and prevent the installing officer from pro-

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ceeding with the ceremony? I answered yes, otherwise there would be no
meaning in the formula: "If any of you has any objection to urge why
he should not be installed, you will make it known now." This question
implies the right of any member to object and necessarily the objection
would stay any further proceedings, but the objector must prefer charges
against the officer, and, in my judgment, the officer so challenged would
have the Masonic right to demand that charges should be preferred.

14. Can a member of a lodge in this jurisdiction, who has previously
served as warden and master in a foreign jurisdiction be elected W. M.
without having served as warden in this state? I answered yes. Article 6
of the constitution reads : "Any past master who removes into this from
any other jurisdiction shall on his becoming affiliated with a lodge herein,
be entitled to all the rights and privileges of a past master in the said
lodge.

15. Can a rented hall be dedicated according to our ritual? No, the
hall must be the property of the lodge in order to be consecrated and dedi-
cated Masonically.

Number 1 involves a question new to us. We think it was answered
correctly, but where the brother is known to be an Entered Aprentice we
know of no reason why he should not be permitted to sit in a lodge other
than his own while it is open on that degree. That No. 3 is correctly
decided should go without saying ; we note it here, as we have where the
same question has arisen in other jurisdictions, as showing the extent to
which the notion of a collective ballot has spread. The statement in No. 6
that no such examination is contemplated under the law is susceptible of
a wider application of the term law than any merely local regulation. When
one is made a Master Mason he possesses the same general rights as does
any other brother, and we question the authority of his equals, individu-
ally or collectively, to impose upon him the conditions as to when or how,
or to what extent, he shall study the ritual. If he fails to master it suffi-
ciently he has to suffer the limitations which his want of knowledge en-
tails. No. 7 was disapproved by the jurisprudence committee on the
ground that the residence of twelve months which is required means
twelve months in the state, and that having once had a residence therein
he did not lose it by temporary absence in the pursuit of his ordinary oc-
cupation or business. No. 12 we think is correctly answered, and that in
the absence of any prescribed course of procedure the only remedy open
to the officer objected to would be the one indicated. No. 14 is answered
by reference to the written law, but in the absence of such we think the
the answer should be the same. No. 15 was approved, modified by adding
"when the occupation is merely temporary," and we think we would go no
further than that in approval.

Relative to the Order of the Eastern Star the grand master says :

In March last I received a communication from a member of one of
the constituent lodges asking what steps were necessary and how to pro-
ceed to establish a chapter or lodge of Eastern Star Masons. I replied that

270 APPENDIX — PART I.

it was impossible for me to give any information in regard to this order
since the M. W. Grand Lodge of South Carolina had no knowledge of its
existence nor did it exercise any control over its officers or members in this
jurisdiction. The order seems to flourish in some states and is regarded as
a valuable aid in bringing together the wives and daughters of Masons in
some sort of social intercourse, and I am told in a relation also which ena-
bles them to become known to Master Masons in times of distress or peril.
If this is the case, it might be considered a valuable adjunct to our institu-
tion. Still it is no part of Ancient Craft Masonry, and we have no cogni-
zance of its purposes, aims, or ritual.

The grand lodge followed the committee on address in approving these
remarks.

The grand master favored the adoption of the following amendment
which came over from last year under the rule :

Amend article in of the constitution by adding thereto the following:

"Provided, That the grand master, deputy grand master and senior
grand warden shall constitute a board to whom all applications for a mod-
ification of this article shall be referred, and upon the approval of a major-
ity of said board, the grand master shall grant his dispensation to receive
such candidates as in their judgment can literally comply with all the re-
quirements of the ritual ; the right of dispensation being restricted to
such cases."

As will be seen by the language this refers to the question of physical
fitness, and with its purpose to relax the iron-clad interpretation unwar-
rantably given to the landmark by the South Carolina regulations (which
we presume is a legacy from the predominating influence of the "Ancient"
or schismatic element in the early history of the jurisdiction — we are in
full sympathy, believing as we do that the Illinois regulation interpreting
the charge as the grand master does in the following to be correct :

The only objection that has been urged against its adoption, other
than a sentimental one, is that it violates one of the landmarks, and there-
fore, that it is not in the power of any men or body of men to make such
change. As I explained in my last address to this grand body, I cannot
take this view of the matter. In the "Ancient Charges" we find the fol-
lowing as to physical requirements :

"No master should take an apprentice . . . unless he be a perfect
youth, having no maim or defect in his body that may render him incapa-
ble of learing the art, of serving his master's Lord, and of being made a
brother and then a fellowcraft in due time."

It has been observed, and with much truth, that "those who insist upon
absolute physical perfection in a candidate base their contention upon that
part of the above quotation that required him "to be a perfect youth, hav-
ing no maim or defect in his body," but ignore, probably through lack of
information, the qualifying words that immediately follow,, viz.: that may
render him incapable of learning the art, of serving his master's Lord, and
of being made a brother and then a fellozvcraft in due time."

The grand lodge had a field day over it when it came up for action.
After a long and lively discussion it was lost by a vote 242 ayes to 197
nays, a two-thirds majority being necessary to carry it.

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We do not regret its defeat in the form in which it was proposed, be-
cause it was open to a serious objection which the grand master did not
mention, and we presume no one else did. It questioned the legitimacy of
its own object by providing for a dispensation in the cases whereto it was
applicable. There is no occasion for a dispensation for whatever is law-
ful ; but a dispensation may be worse than merely superfluous. Whatever
is conceded to be landmark is beyond reach of dispensation, because the
obligation of the grand master — the dispenser — to obey the prescriptions
of a landmark is just as great and as irrevocable as that of any and all
other members of the fraternity. To provide for a dispensation to set
aside a law is a confession that what stands in the way of action without
it, really is law. Here the obstacle is not the law and ought not to be
treated as law. It is simply the erroneous interpretation of the law. Not
dispensation, but interpretation is the requisite, and this can be had with-
out impairing the sanctions of the law itself. We know of no simpler or
more effective way than it is accomplished in Illinois, where the section
defining the qualifications of candidates closes thus —

* * * And possessing no maim or defect in his body that may ren-
der him incapable of conforming literally to what the several degrees re-
spectively require of him.

The question will come up again next year in the following form :
Strike out article III and insert in lieu thereof, the following:
Article III. Every candidate for initiation in this jurisdiction, must

be upright in body and not so deformed or dismembered as that he cannot

literally comply with all the requirements of the ritual.

The committee on correspondence report on foreign relations (with

grand lodge approval) :

A letter couched in fraternal and courteous terms from the Grand
Orient and Supreme Council of Brazil requests that we appoint as our
representative one of their members.

While we appreciate the honor and reciprocate the fraternal feelings
embodied in this letter, we advise non-compliance with the request, since
this grand lodge has never exchanged representatives with "Grand Ori-
ents" or "Supreme Councils."

A very interesting copy of the procedings of the Grand Lodge of
Costa Rica is laid before us. Accompanying it is a request addressed
to the grand lodges which are not in fraternal relations with it that
they acquaint that body with the reasons for not having taken final action
on the petition for recognition.

As we declined last year to recognize and exchange representatives
with this body, and as the reasons for this action still exist, we are com-
pelled to occupy the same position now.

The same committee had the approval of the grand lodge in the fol-
lowing :

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We learn from the review of foreigrucorrespondence and from the
grand master's address that our relations with other jurisdictions are
of the most friendly and harmonious character, with one exception, the
Grand Lodge of Washington.

The grand lodge holds views on the suhject of exclusive territorial
grand lodge jurisdiction and of the respect and consideration due from
one grand lodge to others which are at variance with ours, and which, in
our judgment, are calculated to disturb that peace and harmony which
ought ever to prevail amongst Masons. M. W. Bro. W. H. Upton, who
has charge of the foreign correspondence of that grand lodge, has seen fit
to use his high office to advance his peculiar views on Xegro Masonry and
the like, and to be bitterly sarcastic and offensive to all who presume to
differ with him on this subject. The Grand Lodge of Washington,
with Brother Upton as its spokesman, stands alone in this matter among
the grand lodges of the United States, and we should not insist upon
closer fraternal relations until more temperate counsels prevail in that
jurisdiction.

Outside of South Carolina, where alone the review of other grand
lodges is itself reviewed by the committee on foreign corespondence, and
sometimes — if we remember correctly — has been formally approved, or
adopted, it is well known that the reviewer is in no sense the spokesman
of his grand lodge. L'pon several matters we hold convictions quite op-
posed to the opinons of a majority of our grand lodge, as reflected in the
conduct of its business and as reflected in its laws.

Brother Ltpton is no more the spokesman of the Grand Lodge of
Washington than was Brother Chadwick, holding diametrically opposite
views on the subjects referred to.

P'or the reasons given below by the grand master the grand lodge fol-
lowed his suggestion, and the returns appear in the volume under review :

About ten or twelve years ago, at the suggestion of the grand secretary,
the grand lodge authorized the publishing of the returns of the subordi-
nate lodges, showing the name of every Mason in the jurisdiction. It is
a most valuable record for preservation in the archives of the grand lodge
and makes a permanent register of all those connected with the institution
at a given time. In case of the destruction of the original returns by fire,
it will readily be seen of what inestimable worth this record would be.
I have thought that it would be advisable that these returns be printed
every five years as an appendix to the proceedings.

The grand lodge chartered three new lodges and continued three un-
der dispensation ; accepted an invitation from the Charleston lodges to a
steamboat excursion and an oyster roast, a sort of wages received without
any recorded murmuring; accepted a fine oil portrait of Past Grand Mas-
ter Furman Divver; and in assisting Grand Master Whitehead to lay
the corner-stone of the Globes Memorial Art Building, was opened on the
first degree, as it was also when the grand officers were installed.

John R. Bellinger, of Bamberg, was elected grand master; Charles
Lvglesbv, Charleston, re-elected grand secretary.

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The report on correspondence ( 180 pp.) is the twenty-seventh from
the hand of Grand Secretary Charles Inglesby, and is as full of interest-
ing matter as an egg is full of meat.

Referring to a comment on the South Carolina practice of closing the
grand lodge on the third degree and opening it on the first degree (both in
'"short form,") for the installation of grand officers, he assures the critic
that he is quite mistaken in thinking the custom would soon be changed :

It has been the South Carolina way for more than a hundred years
past. Our Ahiman Rezon explains that the grand lodge is opened in the
first degree of Masonry, "so that all the craft may be permitted to be
present."

Long practice enables Brother Inglesby to say a great deal in a little
space, so that he gives a very comprehensive epitome of the proceedings of
our grand lodge for 1902 in less than four of his closely-printed pages.
He thinks the wise and prudent warning words of Grand Master Moulton
relative to undue publicity of Masonic matters, should be well received and
acted upon everywhere; that they apply in every jurisdiction. He con-
curs with the 'Illinois committee on jurisprudence in denying the right of
the grand master to order the expulsion of a member found guilty and
sentenced by his lodge to definite suspension.

His kind words of reference to the Illinois report on correspondence,
merit our grateful acknowledgments.

SOUTH DAKOTA, 1903.

29TH Annual. Deadwood. June 9.

This volume has portraits of the retiring grand master, Frank A.
Brown, and (on memorial tablets) of Melvin R. Youngs, past grand mas-
ter of Wisconsin, and honorary member of the Grand Lodge of South Da-
kota, and Edward G. Benke, past grand treasurer. It is further embel-
lished with a picture of the Masonic temple at Chamberlain.

An address of welcome was delivered immediately upon the opening
by Sol. Starr, past grand master of Montana, whom we lost sight of in
that jurisdiction }-ears ago, and whom we are glad to meet again among
the Black Hills.

Six past grand masters were present and twenty-six grand jurisdic-
tions contributed to the diplomatic corps. Illinois was represented.

274 APPENDIX — PART I.

The grand master reported the death of Edward G. Benke, aged fifty-
four, who was buried with Masonic honors by the grand lodge.

In submitting his decisions the grand master said:

Since the adoption of the by-laws at the last session of the grand lodge
decisions of grand masters lose much of their dignity and standing as a
law of this jurisdiction. Formerly such a decision, approved by the grand
lodge, had much the same force and effect of a formal law. Now, it gov-
erns only in the case wherein it is rendered and is no sure guide to follow
in subsequent similar cases. This may be a wise provision, but it surely
adds an element of uncertainty to the administration of our laws. Under
it no grand master will feel bound by former approved decisions when
they do not accord with his own interpretation.

In view of this fact it may hardly be worth while to encumber the
records with a report of decisions rendered, as all of them have outlived
their usefulness and in every instance it is wholly immaterial whether
they are approved or not. They have already accomplished their work
in the cases involved and this cannot be undone. If they are no guide for
the future, then why permit them to consume the time and attention of
the grand lodge.

We copy in part, numbering them for our convenience :

1. A profane who has removed from the jurisdiction of a lodge can-
not petition that lodge for the degrees. From the day of such removal, the
lodge has no jurisdiction, and therefore cannot waive jurisdiction in favor
of a lodge into whose territorial sphere the candidate has removed. Such
a candidate cannot apply for initiation until he has resided the statutory
time within the jurisdiction of the lodge to which his application is made.

2. The fact that a man has been rejected by a Masonic lodge does
not make him incompetent as a witness in a Masonic trial, though it might
affect his credibility.

3. An atheist has no place in Masonry, and one who admits himself
an atheist, should not be permitted to testify in a Masonic trial.

4. An Indian of full or part blood, if otherwise qualified, is eligible
to receive the degrees of Masonry.

5. A proposed by-law of a lodge, fixing the fees for degrees at $40,
and providing that a clergyman may receive the degrees for $25, is opposed
to the spirit of the laws of this grand lodge and was therefore disapproved
by the grand master.

6. A dispensation from the grand master is not necessary for a lodge
to change its place of meeting to another hall in the same town.

7. On spreading the ballot on a candidate one blackball appeared
and another ballot was ordered. The worshipful master, overeaching his-
power, refusing to a member present the right to vote on the second ballot,
which appeared clear, and at a later meeting the candidate was initated.
Held, that as the member who was unjustly deprived of his right to vote
made no objection or remonstrance, the candidate now stands as a regu-
larly initiated Entered Apprentice.

8. The tyler of a lodge has the right to vote on any question before
the lodge, but he need not be called from his station to exercise that right
unless he so desires. Voting is optional with him.

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE. 275

There are a good many heads into which it seems almost impossible
to get the ideas so correctly stated in No. i, without a surgical operation.
The last half of No. 2 should have been left unsaid; the fact of rejection
should not prejudice his credibility unless supplemented by the further fact
that he was rejected for being a liar. The first statement of No. 3 is cor-
rect. When we get beyond that we think anyone who is a competent wit-
ness under the laws of the land should not be barred out in a Masonic
trial. No. 4 is also true of any other race, or the South Dakotan regula-
tions are sadly out of joint. Nos. 5 and 6 are in accord with Illinois law
and our personal views, and we doubt not that No. 7 would pass muster
in our grand lodge, and that No. 8 would is of recent demonstration.

All his decisions were approved, and what must have been still more
gratifying to him, the by-laws were amended as follows :

Decision of grand master. A decision of the grand master is the
highest official investigation of the law of this grand jurisdiction, and its
approval by the grand lodge is a confirmation of such interpretation."

The law of objection as applicable to advancement was amended and
now reads as follows :

Objection to the advancement of a brother. Any member of the lodge
may object to the advancement of a brother. Such objection, with the
reason therefor, must be stated to the worshipful master, who may enter-
tain it or not at his discretion, or he may lay the objection before the
lodge. If the objection is laid before the lodge by the worshipful master,
and the same shall receive two votes in favor therefor, such objection
shall be declared sustained, and the candidate shall not be entitled to ad-
vancement until the expiration of six months from the date of taking
such vote.

The grand lodges of Costa Rica and Valle de Mexico were recognized
on the recommendation of the committee on corespondence (Bro. Samuel
A. Brown) who submitted separate reports on each.

In his report on the latter, the Grand Lodge Valle de Mexico figures
— as it does in most of the reports seeking an excuse for its recognition —
as the Good Little Boy, while the other alleged governing bodies there are
the "bad kids." He says :

There has been much scandal raised about the heads of the Masons
of Mexico, relative to the making of Masons out of women, and on ac-
count of holding lodge meetings without the presence of the Holy Scrip-
tures, customs imported from the Grand Lodge of France. Brother Sea-
mon of the Grand Lodge of New Mexico, who is recognized generally as
being extremely well-informed on the subject of Mexican Masonry, de-
clares that these irregular practices were never found to exist anywhere
in the republic outside of the Grand Orient and Gran Dieta of Mexico, both
of which bodies are now extinct. The Masons principally responsible for
those things have been dead some years. There are now no irregularities
countenanced in Mexico.

The italics are ours. We have discussed the Valley of Mexico grand
lodge so fully elsewhere in this report that might be content to let this pass ;

276 APPENDIX — PART I.

but since Brother BROWN cites the authority of Brother Seamon, we beg to
refer him to the report of the latter submitted to his grand lodge last Octo-
ber in which he says that Brother Young, of the Grand Lodge V.de M. — who
is now managing the campaign for recognition by English-speaking grand
lodges, urged Dr. Swayne, the master of a York lodge in Chihuahua, to
persuade his lodge to give up its charter from the Grand Lodge Cosmos
and accept one from Valle de Mexico, saying that "if the York lodges in
Chihuahua and Parrel came into Valley of Mexico, the York lodges would
be in control and they could easily drop nearly all the Mexican Scottish
lodges for non-compliance with the lazes of the grand lodge, thereby
making the Grand Lodge Valle de Mexico a York Rite grand lodge in
fact." So it seems that the irregularities which do not exist are to be
made pretext for freezing out the lodges guilty of them. Verily the trail
of the old duplicity seems to get itself over all who get within the atmos-
phere of this other self of the gran dieta.

Brother Brown will also find in Brother Seamon's report the follow-
ing:

It is only necessary to add that Valley of Mexico is a member of the
congress or bureau organized by Swiss Alpina Lodge and is thereby in
quasi fraternal relations with all of the Godless grand orients and several
negro grand lodges of the United States.

The grand lodge chartered no new lodges but continued one under
dispensation; appointed a committee to prepare a new burial service; ex-
tended "fraternal" greetings to the Grand Chapter of the Order of the
Eastern Star then in session; wired sympathy and encouragement to Past
Grand Master Albert W. Coe, himself sick at home, and to Grand Tiler
Frank Kunerth, detained at home by the illness of a beloved daughter,
and decided to meet next year at Yankton.

Byron P. Dague, of Deadwood, was elected grand master ; George
A. Pettigrew, Sioux Falls, re-elected grand secretary.

The report on correspondence (166 pp.) is again the work of Bro.
Samuel A. Brown, and in ability and interest is up to the mark of his pre-
vious reports. Something over five pages are given to our proceedings
for 1902.

His observant eye notes and his logical brain correlates as cause and
effect, the two facts that dispensations for conferring degrees out of time
are expensive luxuries and that only two were issued during the year.

In view of the new ruling relative to waiver of concurrent jurisdic-
tion, he commiserates the senior lodges and more particularly the secre-
taries thereof, and gives us the following, calling attention to a new aspect
of the waiver question :

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE. 277

But, in point of fact, why waive jurisdiction at all upon a candidate
who has never subjected himself to your jurisdiction by petitioning? Waiv-
ing jurisdiction over a man whose petition you have not received is in
our opinion a very poor business. So also is it to receive an application
from a man who resides outside your own geographical jurisdiction,
whether by consent of some other lodge or not. Why should the grand
lodge forbid you from receiving the petition of a man who has not re-
sided twelve months within your jurisdiction and in the next paragraph
say that if he has not resided in your jurisdiction at all you can receive
his petition if the lodge where he resides or one of them will give him up?
Why this anxiety to initiate strangers ?

Generous attention is given to the grand master's address, the business
of the session, and to the report on correspondence.

SOUTH DAKOTA, 1904.

30TH Annual. Yankton. June 14.

The volume is embellished with a fine half-tone portrait of the retir-
ing grand master (Byron P. Dague) and with interior views of the grand
secretary's office at Sioux Falls (whither he has moved his residence,)
which warrant us in congratulating Brother Pettigrew on having his
lines cast in such convenient and attractive working quarters.

Nine past grand masters were present, one of whom, Oscar S. Gif-
ford, the representative of Illinois, helped to make up the twenty-six who
occupied the diplomatic gallery.

Grand Master Dague announced the death of Past Deputy Grand
Master Rorert Crossett Hawkins, in his eightieth year, one of the pio-
neers of the jurisdiction. A captain of cavalry (Wisconsin) during the
civil war, he came to Sioux Falls in 1872. He was police justice of Sioux
Falls for twenty, and county judge of Minnehaha county for eight years.
His memorial tablet is a sitting portrait of a strong face and figure such
as befit the sturdy pioneers who lay the foundation of states.

We observe by his list of dispensations granted, that, as in other jur-
isdictions, the December moon sometimes fails to full during the month
when elections are generally held, and that lodges whose meeting dates
are contingent on its phases have to be helped out. However .the brethren
in those far northern latitudes have during a portion of the year the
refuge of the twilight which lingers to almost meet the coming dawn.

Among the dispensations commendably refused was one asked to
■enable a lodge to appear in public to attend church on an ordinary occa-

278 APPENDIX — PART I.

sion. and another to hold a "lodge of sorrow" on the anniversary of the
death of a brother whose family objected to a Masonic burial at his funeral.
"Lodge of Sorrow" is a term which has no place in Craft Masonry, but
whether this had any weight with the grand master «does not appear. Our
hope that it did is based upon the fact that in order to hold a simple
memorial service in the lodge, upon that anniversary or on any other
date, would have required no dispensation.

Nineteen decisions were reported, of which we take a part :

1. An officer who has been appointed to, and installed in office, can
not be granted a dimit until his term of office has expired.

2. A petition for affiliation may be received, even though it is ac-
companied by a dimit "more than one year old."

4. A lodge in this grand jurisdiction has the right to waive its jur-
isdiction over profane material in favor of a lodge in another grand juris-
diction. The question whether the lodge receiving the waiver would have
the right under it to confer degrees on such material, would be decided
by the law of the grand jurisdiction to which the lodge receiving the waiver
belonged.

5. The past master's degree is not a prerequisite to the office of wor-
shipful master.

7. The meeting place of a lodge may be removed from one building
to another in the same town, without a dispensation from the grand master.

9. A lodge loses jurisdiction over profane material after it has re-
moved to, and resided in another jurisdiction for "nine months," not-
withstanding the fact that a petition had been presented to the secretary
"six months prior to removal," and that the petition had not been pre-
sented to, or received by the lodge during said six months, by reason of
the lodge having failed during that time to secure a quorum.

The rule is, that a lodge loses its jurisdiction over profane material
the moment that residence is changed to another territorial jurisdiction.

10. Refused to pass upon the physical qualifications of a petitioner
for degrees, holding that the lodge, and not the grand master, was the
proper judge, being responsible to the grand lodge, and referred the solici-
tor to "Maskey's Jurisprudence" and the "Ancient Charges" published
with our by-laws, for information on the subject.

11. A lodge holds jurisdiction over its Entered Apprentice or Fellow
Craft, so long as he resides within this grand jurisdiction, provided that
it may waive its jurisdiction to another lodge to whose jurisdiction the
brother may have removed.

It is not necessary that the lodge holding original jurisdiction should
have a dispensation to confer the remaining degree or degrees, while the
candidate still resides within this grand jurisdiction.

13. A lodge holds jurisdiction over a rejected candidate so long as
he resides within this state, and a petition should not be received by an-
other lodge without a waiver granted by a unanimous vote.

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE. 279

19. The laws do not prescribe the manner in which a ballot on peti-
tion shall be taken, except that it must be secret. The custom is, how-
ever, to ballot on each petition separately ; and in my opinion, this is much
the better way, since, in case of a ballot on two or more petitions at the
same time, if a blackball should appear, it would then be necessary to ballot
again, and on each petition separately.

Number 1 is not, we think, justified by general usage, but it may be
by the local law. Usually — we judge from general recollection — the pro-
hibition to resign or dimit includes only the master and wardens, as in
Illinois; and rarely is it carried beyond the elective officers. No. 2 shows
that South Dakota has not joined the crusade against non-affiliates to the
extent that many of the younger, and some of the older jurisdictions have.
No. 4 shows that the new-fangled idea that territorial jurisdiction resides
in the grand master, or that he shares it with the lodges, had not yet got
into the executive head although it cropped out later. Nos. 5 and 7 are
in accord with Illinois law. The jurisprudence committee shortened No. 9
by retaining the last clause, which fully states the rule. The implication,
however, in the case out of which the decision grew, that had the petition
got into the hands of the lodge and been referred before the applicant had
removed from the territory of the lodge, it would have had jurisdiction in
the case, is correct. The committee added to No. 10, a proviso that when
the grand "master is appealed to and the facts presented, it is his duty to
pass upon them ;" notwithstanding which we think it would be his duty
to say that he could not by such passing relieve the lodge of the responsibility
of deciding, upon its own conscience. No. 11 was amended by the insertion
of the word "perpetual;" and No. 13 by inserting the- words "secret ballot"
in place of the terminal word vote. No. 19 — which is the first instance, we
think, in which a grand master has failed to speak positively of the inad-
missibility of a collective ballot — was righted by shortening it to include
only the first sentence, with the added words "and upon each petition
separately."

The outcropping of the idea that the grand master might under some
circumstances share with a lodge in the territorial jurisdiction which in
the nature of things is vested in the lodges alone, occurred in recommenda-
tion of the grand master that inter-lodge and inter-jurisdictional recipro-
city might be established in order to evade— in desirable cases — the law
requiring an applicant for the degrees to have resided for one year last
past within the jurisdiction of the lodge petitioned, by adding to that law
a proviso substantially as follows :

"Providing, that lodges may receive petitions for degrees from one who
is a resident within the territorial jurisdiction of another lodge, upon the
lodge holding such jurisdiction waiving the same by a unanimous vote;
and providing further, that when the lodge holding such jurisdiction is
located within the territorial limits of another grand lodge, such waiver
by the subordinate lodge shall be indorsed with the consent of the grand
lodge, or grand master, holding jurisdiction."

280 APPENDIX — PART I.

The grand master had overlooked the fact that this course is open to
applicants now without additional legislation under the law or usage which
recognizes the right of a lodge to waive jurisdiction. The subject went to
the committee on jurisprudence, but was ignored. We are glad that the
provision we have italicized received no countenance.

It is a pleasure to note by the report of the grand secretary (Geo. A.
Pettigkew) that upon leaving the old home at Flandreau, after a con-
nection of nearly twenty-one years with the fraternity there, himself and
wife were remembered at a good-bye reception by the presentation of a
solid silver loving-cup, appropriately inscribed as coming from the three
Masonic organizations and the chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star.
Such things are doubly gratifying when given like this under circum-
stances to preclude any suspicion of an element in the appreciation of the
donors akin to the gratitude which Sydney Smith describes as "a lively
sense of favors to come."

The following strikes at all phases of an evil that in some of its as-
pects is getting to be a nuisance as well as an offence the law in its broad-
est sense :

In regard to the matter of advertising which was referred to this
committee, we most emphatically declare that the printing of Masonic
emblems, words or anything of a Masonic nature, or the listing of Ma-
sonic bodies to which a party belongs, on a business card, or any other
sign which might be used for advertising purposes is un-Masonic conduct,
and the offender should be dealt with according to our grand lodge by-laws.
(Adopted.)

The grand lodge chartered four new lodges, the name of one of which
(Radium) suggests a quality whose presence or absence will make or mar
its usefulness, and continued one under dispensation ; accepted the work
of the committee appointed to revise the burial service ; took the initiative
in tossing bouquets, fragrant with appreciative words, with a body identify-
ing itself as its "Sister'' Order of the Eastern Star; exchanged greetings
with the Grand Lodge of Wisconsin ; received greeting and regrets from
Past Grand Masters William C. Allen and Geo. V. Ayers, and extended
messages of sympathy, regret and condolence to Past Grand Master Geo.
A. Johnston, sick at his home, and Senior Grand Warden Edgar D.
Brookman, recently bereaved of a daughter; and selected Aberdeen as its
next place of meeting.

Ivan W. Goodner, of Pierre, was elected grand master ; George A.
Pettigrew, Sioux Falls, re-elected grand secretary.

The report on correspondence (188 pp.), including so much of Brother
Fkaxkel's review as relates to continental European grand bodies, from
the New York report, was again presented by Bro. Samuel A. Brown.

Illinois for 1903 receives full and very fraternal notice. He sizes up
Grand Master Motlton as an enthusiastic Mason, full and running over
with the exhuberance of fraternal feeilng.

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE. 281

TASMANIA, 1904.

13TH Annual. Hobart. February 25.

The grand master. The Hon. C. E. Davies, M. L. C, presided. One
past grand master and the representatives of eighteen lodges were present.

Among the rulings reported by the board of general purposes, we find
the following :

Amongst the rulings forwarded by the grand secretary, with the ap-
proval of the board, are several that may be of service to members of
country lodges. To an inquiry whether an E. A. or F. C. had the right to
propose a candidate for initiation, the grand secretary replied that E. A.'s
and F. C.'s have all the rights of membership as regards voting upon any
ballot or resolution, etc., brought before their lodge, yet it was most un-
desirable for such brethren of the order to propose candidates for admis-
sion into principles and secrets with which the proposers were not fully
acquainted. It was decidedly preferable to submit the names of such can-
didates through the M. W. or some other officer of the lodge.

The following case of irregularity discloses the fact that the English
usage of election by acclamation or proclamation where only one candidate
is proposed, although still obtaining in the grand lodge does not prevail
in the lodges :

In another lodge a P. M. who was presiding through the absence of
the W. M. at the regular meeting for the election of officers, declared the
only brother proposed as W. M. to be duly elected, though Reg. 108 pro-
vides that the election of this officer must be by ballot. Fortunately the
matter was promptly reported by the W. M., and under the circumstances
the board recommended the G. M. to issue a dispensation making the elec-
tion valid, which was done. The lodge was, however, warned that this
must not be regarded as a precedent.

The reports of the grand inspectors of workings show that some pro-
gress was being made towards uniformity on the basis of the "Emulation
Workings'' prescribed by the grand lodge, but to some extent through
misapprehension the South Australian working prevailed in some locali-
ties. This misapprehension involved an opinion erroneously supposed to
have been expressed by the grand master, who explained :

The M. W. grand master said there was evidently a misconception.
What lie said was that personally he preferred the South Australian Work-
ing (which was very similar to "Emulation," but until they adopted a
Tasmanian working, grand lodge had decided the "Emulation" Working
should be followed.

The grand secretary (John Hamilton) reported a growth of active
membership during the year of 12 per cent.

The matter of attempting to secure a better representation of the lodges
at the annual communications, by paying mileage to those living outside

282 APPENDIX — PART I.

of a radius of fifty miles from the seat of the grand lodge was brought up,
but was withdrawn in order that it might first be brought up and dis-
cussed in the lodges.

Among other grand lodges Illinois was reported as having asked for
an exchange of representatives, and the grand master appointed (with
grand lodge approval) W. Bro. Roswell T. Spencer as their representative
near the Grand Lodge of Illinois. Our jurisdiction was among those the
receipt of whose proceedings was acknowledged.

The Hon. C. E. Davis was re-elected grand master, and having been
installed, proclaimed and saluted, he re-appointed R. J. Sadler and J. G.
Davies as pro grand master and deputy grand master respectively. John
Hamilton, of Hobart. remains grand secretary.

The grand master delivered an interesting address, largely retrospect-
ive, but dealing also with present conditions and future prospects, during
which he referred to the gratification of the Masons of Australia at the
appointment of Lord Northcote as governor general, he having been dis-
tinguished for his Masonic services in England prior to his appointment
to the governor-generalship of Bombay.

They have no committee on cqrespondence.

TENNESSEE, 1904.

90TH Annual. Nashville. January 27.

The frontispiece of the Tennessee volume is a portrait of the incoming
grand master, James L. Sloan, a half-tone of unusual effectiveness.

Nine past grand masters were present, among them, Americus V.
YYarr, the representative of Illinois.

The grand master (Edmund P. McQueen) announced the death of
Past Grand Master Bernard Francis Price, almost universally known as
Bun F. Price, and one of the best known Masons in the south, in his
fifty-eighth year. In recent years he founded Shibboleth, a Masonic journal
of wide influence in the Lower Mississippi Valley, and conducted until
his death. His eulogist, Past Grand Master Ingersoll, paid a most elo-
quent tribute to his character and personality. We did not know Brother
Price personally, but we are persuaded that no praise can be too extrava-
gant of the courage and devotion of the little band who made up the Mem-
phis relief committee during the terrible epidemic season of the summer
and fall of 1873, of which he was one.

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE. 2b3

Tennessee is another of the jurisdictions where a lodge requires a dis-
pensation to move from one hall to another in the same town or village.
The grand master reports one to remove place of meting one block east;
another to move immediately arocss the street to new hall, and another to
move twenty feet south. It would be interesting to know whether this
was to meet the requirement of enacted, or traditional law. The grand mas-
ter reported thirteen decisons, in part as follows :

1. Can Masonic bodies join in procession with other fraternal bodies
and participate in burial ceremonies.

They may join in procession, but cannot participate in the burial cere-
monies of other orders, nor can other orders be allowed to participate in
the Masonic burial ceremonies.

2. Can a lodge, at a regular meeting, be called off from time to time?
If so, when called, is it in regular meeting, and for the transaction of regu-
lar business?

Subordinate lodges may be called off from time to time, but must be
closed before the next stated meting. When called on it is a continuation
of the stated meeting, for the transaction of such business as may properly
come before the stated meeting, except such business as the edicts require
to be transacted on the first day of the stated meeting.

3. What is the Masonic status of a brother who has been suspended
for twelve months, when his lodge appeals to the grand lodge, and the
twelve months expire before the question is determined by the grand lodge,
the grand lodge having referred the case to a special committee?

Pending the appeal, the brother found guilty must submit to the award
of his brethren, so far as the exercise of any of his Masonic rights, save
that of appeal, is concerned.

4. Can a lodge which has had no meetings for four or five years,
and made no returns to the grand lodge during those years, and paid no
grand lodge dues, meet and dimit one of its members?

Yes. Its right as a lodge continues until action has been taken against
it for non-payment of dues, as required by the constitution.

5. Can a senior warden continue to fill his office while charges against
him are pending in his lodge?

Yes. The fact that charges are pending does not effect the rights of
any member.

6. Can the junior warden act as counsel for the accused in a Ma-
sonic trial in his lodge?

No. It is his official duty to prefer charges against a Mason, and pros-
ecute the same when ordered by the lodge.

7. I have received quite a number of inquiries from subordinate
lodges, touching, in various ways, the question of conferring the degrees
of Masonry upon men having physical defects. To each and all of these
inquiries I have responded by calling the attention of the inquirers to the
recommendation made by the committee on Masonic jurisprudence in

284 APPENDIX— PART T.

their report to the grand lodge in 1900, found on page 72, of the Grand
Lodge Proceedings for that year, from which it will be seen that it is in-
tended to leave all such questions for the determination of the subordinate
lodges in which they arise.

S. I have received a great many requests for a construction of Edict Xo.
61, both from lodges and from individuals, some of which I hereinafter
quote, but I have declined to give any construction of same except when
the question came from a lodge in a matter involving a construction of
said edict. Said edict is as follows :

61. Intoxicating Liquors. — All Master Masons engaged in the manu-
facture or sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage, after January I, 1903,
shall be deemed unworthy of membership in any subordinate lodge of
Tennessee, and charges shall be preferred against all so engaged, by the
junior warden in whose jurisdiction said manufacturer or dealer shall be
residing.

Does edict 61 apply to barkeepers and bartenders only, or does it in-
clude wholesale dealers, such as sell by the barrel or by the five gallon keg?

It applies to those who sell by wholesale as well as to those who sell
at retail.

This lodge preferred charges against three of its members for violat-
ing edict 61, and it wants to know what punishment should be inflicted.

The trial lodge has the right to fix the punishment upon any brother
who has been by it declared guilty of a Masonic offence, and it is not
within the province of the grand master to declare the punishment to be
inflicted upon a brother for violating edict 61, or for any other offence.

One of our members has money invested in the saloon business, a one-
half interest. He does not manufacture or sell intoxicating liquors him-
self. Is he guilty of violating edict 61 ?

If he has his money invested in intoxicating liquors, and he sells it
by himself, by another, or if his partner sells it, he is guilty.

Number 2 discloses a condition of affairs unknown in Illinois where
the lodges are forbidden to call from labor over night but are required to
close on the stated day. The decision was disapproved, the law committee
saying :

The committee cannot concur in the ruling that any business that may
properly come before a stated meeting may be transacted on a day subse-
quent to the day fixed for the stated meting. This is limited as follows
by edict No. 25 :

"Balloting upon petitions for degrees, affiliation or restoration must
take place on the first day or night of stated meting." The committee,
therefore, recommends that this decision do not have the approval of the
grand lodge.

Number 6 was modified by the jurisprudence committee, who say:

The committee also recommends that the grand master's ruling that
a junior warden cannot act as counsel for the accused be understood as
subject to exception in cases wherein he may be of kin or counsel to the

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accused, when elected to the office. In such cases your committee is of
opinion that it is not unlawful for one holding the office of junior warden
to act as counsel for the accused on the trial, the lodges of course ap-
pointing some other brother to prosecute the charges. Otherwise it is
recommended that the ruling be approved.

Referring to No. 2, a lodge may not join in a funeral procession in
Illinois unless the burial service is in its hands ; otherwise the law is as
stated by the grand master. No. 3 appears to us to be answered correctly,
and No. 4 certainly is so answered. The view taken of No. 6 by the com-
mittee on jurisprudence is in accord with our own. No. 7 is to be com-
mended because it enforces the idea that no act of the grand master
changes the essence of the situation when a landmark is at stake, although
if his opinion as to what the landmark requires is followed it will save
the lodge trouble so far as he is concerned. Still the lodge, or its individ-
ual members are under the same obligation that he is to judge of them-
selves what is right. No. 8 and what follows is given for information
chiefly. The jurisprudence committee divided on it (17 to 1), Past Master
Ixgersoll bringing in a separate report dissenting from the majority view
that wholesale dealers or those who sell only in quantities of five gallons
and upwards, are engaged in the sale of intoxicating liquors as a bever-
age,"' and therefore come within the terms of the edict. The majority view
prevailed.

The board of control of the widows and orphans' home report the
average number of inmates for the year 11,475; the per capita cost of
maintenance, $91.87. They bewail the lack of means and evidently justly
so ; they say :

This board of control will consider that it has been derelict in the dis-
charge of its duty unless it calls to the attention of this most worshipful
grand lodge that with the means at its disposal it is barely able to provide
the inmates of the home with the absolute necessities of life. The result
has been so far (and we can see no hope of improvement with the present
conditions) that the children that come to us are taken care of until they
reach the age of sixteen years, receiving in the meantime merely the rudi-
ments of an education, and are turned loose illy prepared to fight the battle
of life. They go out from us fit for not much beyond being "hewers of
wood and drawers of water."

We believe there is a way to help them, however, and that is by pre-
paring both boys and girls, when they leave the home, to earn a living
by giving them some useful trade or occupation. With an income that
will justify the employment of competent teachers, these wards can be sent
out into the world fully competent to care for themselves and make valu-
able men and women in the localites where they make their homes.

Of this situation the committee on ways and means say :

Your committee has had before it an appeal from the board of con-
trol, asking for more funds for the widows and orphans' home, in order to
enable them to give the inmates an education fitting them to successfully
battle with the world for a livelihood. We confess that of the means sug-

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gested by the board to accomplish this much desired end, the committee
cannot see its way clear to recommend any one of them. It is impossible,
we believe, to raise the per capita tax. It will be also impossible to lower
the per diem; that the money must be forthcoming cannot be denied by
any one who wishes well for the future of our orphans. Therefore we rec-
ommend that edict No. I of the grand lodge be so amended as to read:
"Each subordinate lodge in this jurisdiction shall annually pay into the
grand lodge treasury the sum of $2.50 for each degree conferred, fifty
cents of this amount to be for the exclusive use of the widows and orphans'
home," etc.

And the tax was so levied.

A volunteer effort to help out in the same direction was the following :

Whereas, There are a number of voluntary non-affiliated Masons in
the state of Tennessee. Masons in good standing, who pay nothing toward
supporting the grand lodge, the subordinate lodge or the widows' and or-
phans' home ; now, therefore, be it

Resolved, That each voluntary non-affiliated Mason within the state of
Tennessee be required to pay the sum of two dollars per year, to be col-
lected by the lodge in whose jurisdiction he resides; and that this sum
must be paid before he can visit any lodge in this jurisdiction.

The money thus collected shall be applied to the endowment fund of
the widows' and orphans' home.

But the following adverse report of the committee on jurisprudence
Killed it:

That the proposed rule against voluntary non-affiliates is objection-
able because it punishes a brother summarily and without due trial, and
besides present regulations against this class of brethren are sufficiently
strenuous.

The report of the grand secretary (John B. Garrett) shows that in
addition to the duties of his office, he visited, inspected and instructed
no fewer than seventy-eight lodges. We had observed that in many of the
visitations of the grand master, he encountered Brother Garrett who usu-
ally conferred the third degree. The climax was reached at Nashville,
his home city, when the grand master visited Phoenix Lodge No. 131, and
thus tells the story :

This was a called meeting of this lodge for the purpose of this visita-
tion, and a special programme was arranged therefor. The third degree
was exemplified by Bro. John B. Garrett, with the other officers of said
lodge, in the hall of the grand lodge, this degree being conferred upon
Bro. Jos. W. Byrns, ex-speaker of the House of Representatives. The first
section was conferred by brethren in full evening dress, and the second in
Oriental costumes. There were present upon this occasion five hundred
and forty brethren, including sixty-three members of the state legislature,
Hon. James B. Frazier, governor of Tennessee, and Hon. James D. Rich-
ardson, member of co.ngress, and P. G. M. The work of the "twelve"'
could not be excelled. They w-ere so well trained and proficient in their
parts that they moved intelligently in the performance of their duties, more
like well-regulated machinerv than like men.

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I take great pleasure in stating that I have never witnessed a more
complete exemplification of the work in all its parts.

Only those who have had the good fortune to meet Brother Garrett
personally can adequately imagine how effective he would he when clad in
royal Oriental robes, as the personification of Semitic majesty.

Two new lodges were chartered, one dispensation continued and one
taken up. Four petitions for dispensations (for new lodges) were favor-
ably acted upon, and four refused.

The committee appointed last year to .prepare a burial and memorial
service reported their completed work, which was adopted and ordered to
be printed and distributed to the lodges. It embraces no less than five
ceremonies, as follows :

First — Masonic Burial Service — A revised form of ceremonies to be
used at the grave at the time of burial.

Second — Memorial Service — A form of service on memorial occasions
to be used at the lodge room.

Third — Memorial Service — A form of service on memorial occasions
to be used at church or other public edifices.

Fourth — Memorial Service — A form of service on memorial occasions
to be used at the grave at any apointed time subsequent to the burial.

Fifth — Dedication — A form of service to be used in dedication of a
monument to the memory of a deceased brother.

The fourth form reported indicates that "funeralizing the dead (and
buried')" which had obtained quite a foothold in the South, has not, as
we had thought, fallen wholly into innocuous desuetude, and more's the
pity.

One afternoon was given to an entertainment by the children of the
Home at the Masonic Theatre.

James L. Sloax, of Linden, was elected grand master; Johx B. Gar-
rett, Nashville, re-elected grand secretary.

The report on correspondence (119 pp.) is the first by its author, Past
Grand Master Hexry A. Chambers, who credits Brother Walton, of the
committee (whose work we have heretofore had occasion to commend so
highly) with having prepared the reviews of the Grand Lodges of Great
Britain and its dependencies. Another member of the committee, familiar
with the languages of continental Europe, took, on his own offer, the con-
tinental proceedings for review, and up to date had returned neither.

The report of Brother Chambers is uncontroversial and very largely
a paper of statistics and percentages which must have entailed a great
amount of labor to work out. To give our readers an idea of the solid
substratum upon which he builds up his notices of the various jurisdic-
tions, we copy the opening lines and figures of his notice of Illinois :

APPENDIX — PART I.

64TH Annual Communication. Chicago, October 6-8, 1903.

Population: White, 4.734.873; colored, etc., 86,677; total 4,821,550

Males. 2,472,782; white, about ninety-eight and one-fifth per cent. .2,428,271

White males of voting age 1.370,209

Members of lodges, about one and one-fourth per cent of popula-
tion, or 66,621

This is about two and three-fourths per cent, or nearly three out of
every one hundred white males of all ages and conditions ; and nearly
five per cent or five out of every one hundred white males of voting age.

He quotes briefly from the address of Grand Master Moulton touch-
ing physical fitness.

TEXAS.

68th Annual. Waco. December i.

Two portraits adorn the Texas volume — J. D. Savers, who was grand
master in 1S75, and William James, who was invested with the purple at
the session under review.

Fifteen past grand masters were present, headed by R. M. Elgin, the
senior survivor of his rank. Thirty grand jurisdictions were represented
in the diplomatic corps, Illinois not of the number.

Death had taken no one from the official circle during the year. The
grand master (W. M. Fly), stating this fact, recurred to the death of
James F. Miller, past grand master, whose death was announced a year
ago, to say that he had asked Past Grand Master W. S. Fly to present a
memorial of the deceased. The memorial is a noble paper, disclosing in
the lamented dead a personality of great power and influence to have so
impressed his friends.

The address of the grand master is long, necessarily, but not redund-
ant, and handles the multiform questions arising in so vast a jurisdiction
with great ability.

He refused dispensations to authorize a lodge to perform a post burial
service over the grave of a deceased brother; to permit a joint public in-
stallation of officers with the Knights of Pythias, and recalled one that had
authorized a public celebration and installation, after learning that it was
arranged to hold it jointly with Odd Fellows and Woodmen of the World.
Such requests as these emphasize the danger that Masonry may be honey-
combed to the loss of its distinctive character by its environment. Refused

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also was a dispensation to appear in public on Sunday to hear a Masonic
address, and also to authorize the making of candidates of recognized
physical ineligibility, in which connection he says :

I fear, too much leniency in the reception of candidates and unques-
tionably a vast amount of unnecessary labor to the grand master in the
examination of diagrams of the various members of the human anatomy,
and making reply to inquiries almost without number. Let it be under-
stood that these are questions calling for the sound judgment and discre-
tion of the worshipful masters of lodges, who should be able to apply the
doctrine of this grand lodge to the existing conditions and decide intelli-
gently such questions, rather than ask for the hypothetical ruling of the
grand master.

In several instances he declined to permit the laying of corner-stones
of churches whose superstructure was to be of wood, thus throwing a
novel element into the discussion of when such ceremonies are proper. In
doing this he says he is aware that he has ignored a custom almost if not
quite universally practiced in Texas. It should be observed that the struc-
tures put under the ban are "frame buildings," so that the market for cedar
from Lebanon and other and more accessible points may not be wholly
shut off.

The following shows how cheaply .dispensations to set aside the law
are held by some of the brethren :

Wills Point Lodge, No. 422, asked that I grant dispensation authoriz-
ing the balloting on the same night of the presenting of the petition for
affiliation of a certain brother who had resided within their jurisdiction
for twelve months, procured his dimit from his former lodge in December,
1902, that he might affiliate with Wills Point lodge in January, on the night
of the presentation of his petition, in order that he be in position to become
one of a team to petition the chapter on the following Monday night. The
dispensation was refused.

The grand master reports the following :

On August 21, R. W. Bro. S. W. Scott. D. D. G. M. Fifty-Fifth Dis-
trict, informed me that on his official visit to Gunsight Lodge No. 838, it
was found that said lodge had, during the months of April, May and June
last, conferred the degrees in Masonry on one J. W. S., who some eight
years ago "lost all four fingers off the left hand, and about half the body
of the hand. This was done deliberately, and after counting, as they
thought, the cost, which they believed would at most be to receive a repri-
mand. So great was their interest in the candidate that they proceeded to
elect him while yet only a Fellow Craft to office in their lodge. Their vio-
lation of the plain law for their government was so flagrant and willful, I
at once directed R. W. Bro. S. W. Scott to arrest their charter, take charge
of their books, jewels, furniture and other effects, and to proceed under
provisions of the law to wind up the affairs of this lodge, making proper
returns. This order was promptly obeyed.

The action of the grand master in arresting the charter of the lodge is
to be commended. But we are led to inquire whether there is any consti-
tutional provision in that jurisdiction whereby his ipsie dixit may "wind

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Up," i. e., practically revoke the charter of a lodge. In the absence of such
a provision (and no constitution ought to have such) we question the right
of a grand master to wipe out a lodge, or to place it under such disabilities
as will prevent its representation on the floor of the grand lodge of which
under the law of Masonry it is an integral part.

The grand master makes a part of his address, a proclamation properly
denouncing as clandestine certain alleged lodges of Mexican origin, of
which proclamation we copy that portion essential for information :

Early in the year, I was furnished with the printed proceedings of
the "Grand Lodge of the Federal District of Mexico,'' for 1900, in
which I find among its list of lodges, "Riva Palacio No. 19," and "Mentana,
B. D.," both of San Antonio, Texas ; "Degallado No. 22," Del Rio, Texas.
In March last I was furnished with a '"copy" of a dispensation issued No-
vember 28, 1902, signed by "Y. A. de la Pena, grand master of the Grand
Lodge of the Federal District of Mexico,'' authorizing the forming of a
lodge at Sanderson, Texas. Investigation reveals the existence of this
lodge. I am informed that a like lodge is at work at Del Rio, Texas, claim-
ing to have derived its authority from the "Grand Lodge of the Federal
District of Mexico." I have just received information of the existence
of a similar organization at Barston, Texas, and also an attempt by one
''Rev. Ygnacio Quintero, pastor of Christian Church, S. Santa Rosa, 421
and 425, San Antonio, Texas," to organize a lodge at San Marcos, Texas.
As yet it has not been learned by' what authority he claimed to act. Ru-
mors of other like organizations have come to me, but for want of definite
information I do not here designate.

This is supplemented by the following which is self-explanatory :

On January 16, I received a communication from R. W. Bro. F. Wer-
ner, D. D. G. M. Forty-Ninth District, enclosing an application, duly signed
by twenty-one "Scottish Master Masons," asking for dispensation to or-
ganize a "Scottish Symbolic Lodge," at Laredo, Texas, and permission to
work in the Spanish language. From the petition itself, and the accompany-
ing letter from Brother Werner, I was led to believe that the petitioners
had at least that degree of true Masonic zeal, deserving a courteous reply.
I promptly called attention to the many fixed and immovable barriers which
would forever render impossible compliance with their prayer, assuring
them that the Grand Lodge of Texas, holding exclusive jurisdiction over
Symbolic Masonry in this state, could never permit the working of other
than the York Rite; and that in the English language, according to the
authorized work adopted by the grand lodge.

To my surprise, on March 3, I received a communication direct from
these petitioners, signed by "Nemesio Garcia, W. M.," and "Juan C. Her-
rera, Secretary," declaring that they had, on September 26, 1902, organ-
ized in Laredo, Texas, and insisted upon the granting of dispensation, ac-
cording to their former petition, on the ground that they were regular Ma-
sons, made in the Scottish Rite, and spoke only the Spanish language. I,
of course, refused to continue the correspondence, and promptly warned
the craft at Laredo of their clandestine neighbor. This organization was
not mentioned in the grand master's proclamation issued October 3, for the
reason the officers thereof disclaimed any willful intent, professed great
sorrow, promised a discontinuance, and pleaded that they be not declared
clandestine.

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Texas may rely upon having the prompt support of every grand lodge
in this country in maintaining the integrity of her jurisdiction.

The grand master reports no less than forty-nine decisions, for some
of which we make room :

4. Held that an application for affiliation, accompanied with a dimit
from Toltec Lodge No. 214, A. F. and A. M., city of Mexico, issued April
22, 1901, might be received, since at the time said dimit was issued the
Gran Dieta Simbolica of the United States of Mexico, by whose authority
Toltec lodge then worked, was in existence and recognized by this grand
lodge as a sister grand jurisdiction.

8. That a lodge cannot receive the petition of a candidatee before he
is twenty-one years of age.

9. That an appointive officer cannot dimit during his term of office.

12. "J. C. P." received the three symbolic degrees in Masonry in
Madison lodge, Madison, Ga., in 1865. In 1866 he dimitted and affiliated
with No. 58, New Orleans, La., from which lodge he dimitted and affiliated
with Ionic lodge No. 90, Seattle, Wash., in 1S97. He now holds his dimit
under date of February 11, 1903, from Ionic lodge, jurisdiction of Wash-
ington, and desires to affiliate with Anchor Lodge No. 424, San Antonio,
Texas.

Can Anchor lodge accept his application?

Held the exact language of the resolution dissolving intercourse with
the Grand Lodge of Washington is as follows :

"Resolved, That this grand lodge hereby suspends all intercourse with
the Grand Lodge of Washington, A. F. and A. M., and forbids its sub-
ordinates and members from having any Masonic communication or inter-
course with lodges or Masons owing allegiance to the said Grand Lodge
of Washington.''

Said "J. C. P." having taken his dimit and moved into the jurisdiction
of the Grand Lodge of Texas, owes no allegiance to the Grand Lodge of
Washington, and as to him the edict is not operative. In his case, it suffi-
ciently appears that he had received the degrees in a regular lodge in
Georgia, and his status is therefore defined as a non-affiliated craftsman in
good standing. Anchor lodge may, therefore, receive and affiliate the
brother if it desires to do so.

16. Some years ago "C" petitioned Marshall Lodge No. 22, for initia-
tion and was rejected. Two or three years thereafter he moved to Yazoo
City, Miss., where after two or three years, he was made a Master Mason
without waiver of jurisdiction from Marshall Lodge. He then moved back
to Marshall, and the question is raised, "Is he a clandestine Mason, and
can he visit Marshall Lodge as a regular Mason in good standing?"

"C" is not a clandestine made Mason, since he was made in a regular
lodge, recognized as the peer of our own lodges. The lodge at Yazoo City,
Miss., may or may not have intentionally disregarded the personal juris-
diction of Marshall lodge over the party. This is, or would be, a matter for
consideration between the two grand lodge jurisdictions, and with which
"C" has no concern, provided he has been guilty of no misrepresentation
in the premises. If "C" is in good standing otherwise, he may be admit-
ted as a visitor to Marshall Lodge.

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20. That the worshipful master may cause the ballot to be repassed
as often as he has reason to believe a mistake has been made, provided,
of course, he does not announce the result before the repassing.

22. That the right of the worshipful master of a lodge to represent
his lodge in grand lodge cannot be abrogated by a vote of the lodge.

25. Held that the fact of the worshipful master ordering at the time
he announced the unfavorable ballot on an application for a dimit, that "in
the absence of charges being preferred by the next stated communication
of the lodge, the secretary will issue the dimit," did not deprive the appli-
cant of his right to withdraw his application.

36. That when a brother suicides, it is the duty of the worshipful
master to make investigation, and if he finds the act was dictated by an
unsound mind, he should bury; if not, he should not. Such cases must
be left to the sound discretion of the worshipful master.

42. Held that an applicant for affiliation, hailing from the jurisdiction
of the Grand Lodge of Scotland, may be affiliated, but must prove himself
according to the same tests as though he had received the degrees in a
lodge of the York or American Rite.

48. That a candidate whose hearing is so defective as to require a
view of the person with whom he converses to be able to understand, is
physically ineligible for the Entered Apprentice degree.

We give Number 4 for information and also because we welcome
evidence that Texas is beginning to be solicitous about the parentage of
lodges and Masons it is called upon to recognize. No. 8 is in accord with
Illinois written law. No. 1.2 gives the grand master something of a tustle,
but he wins by a close shave. We should never look a gift horse in the
mouth, and personally we don't feel like scrutinizing too close anything
that tends to bring Texas and Washington back to their normal relations.
The grand master struck bed rock in No. 16; Illinois formally conceded
that point years ago, and on precisely the same ground — "made in a regu-
lar lodge recognized as the peer of our own lodges." No. 22 is mani-
festly right; Illinois goes further and says that so long as he remains
master no one else can abrogate it. No. 25, also, is in accord with our
local law. No. 35 was modified by letting only the last line thereof stand,
which left the law as heretofore. No. 42 looks as though the grand master
had confounded the work of lodges in Scotland with the "Scottish Rite"
work. Probably Scotland knows less about the latter than almost any other
jurisdiction. In No. 48 the grand master succeeds in making the best
statement of a general rule covering that class of cases, that we have seen.
Another decision holds the brethren of the obedience of the alleged grand
lodge at Vera Cruz to be clandestine, a remark that might be correctly
made of most if not all the lodges in that country.

The grand master makes a strong appeal for the Masonic Widows'
and Orphans' Home, of which he says :

More nearly than your fondest dreams could picture, is to be found in
this home, a gigantic family; happy in the enjoyment of the restraints and

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blessings of an ideal home, and educational advantages far excelling in
many respects the best public schools of our school-fostering state.

The directors of the home have had in contemplation the erection of
other buildings, notably an infirmary, with sick wards, rooms for nurses,
dispensary, etc., which would add greatly to the efficiency of the institu-
tion; but they seem apprehensive that the Temple-building project with its
possible (if not inevitable) debt may so curtail their income that they can-
not make the needed improvements.

The per capita cost of maintenance during the year at the home had
been $134.60.

The Houston temple has been sold for $100,000; and it is designed to
oush the construction of Waco building as rapidly as possible.

Twelve new lodges were chartered.

William James, of Fort Worth, was elected grand master; John
Watson, Waco, re-elected grand treasurer.

The report on correspondence (135 pp.) is from the old reliable work-
shop of Past Grand Master Thomas M. Matthews, who in his final sur-
vey, says :

There are but few disturbing elements, of which may be named as
the chief, "Cipher Rituals," "Non-affiliation" and "Jurisdictional Rights."
In time these will all adjust themselves.

We were last year compelled to regret the absence of the Illinois pro-
ceedings from his table when he wrote his review of 1902. Fortunately our
proceedings reached him in season last year, and we have his generous no-
tices of both years all at once and he is again up to date (but he is always
that).

In his notice of the grand master's address at the session of 1902, he
says :

He reports what seems to us one very strange decision, and to which
we demur. A lodge had suspended a brother. The grand master set aside
the verdict, and ordered the lodge to expel him. This we cannot agree
that, under the general law, the grand master had the right to do. On
appeal, the grand lodge' may set aside the verdict of a lodge, and, assum-
ing original jurisdiction, try the case and affix the penalty. This, however,
is a power not vested in the grand master. Only the lodge or the grand
lodge can try an offending brother and fix a penalty. And we find that,
later, when passing upon the decisons of the grand master, the grand
lodge so decided.

Of the action had relative to the Home at Sullivan he says :

Thus our Illinois brethren have taken the first advance step, and its
"home" becomes an established fact. The hand has been put to the plow,
the motto seems to be 'Onward," and there will be no looking or turning
back. It is evident that the craft is in real, dead earnest.

294 APPENDIX — PART I.

We arc glad to find that Ik- is in accord with us as to what constitutes
Masonic bodies. Referring to our review of Massachusetts, he says:

With much more than ordinary interest, we have read the comments
of our brother upon the report of the special committee of the Grand
Lodge of Massachusetts, appointed to consider the petition of thirty-one
past masters and one present master, asking the repeal of sections 21 and
22 of the grand lodge constitution, wherein the so-called higher Masonic
bodies are recognized as Masonic. It is a manly, forceful and, to our mind,
an unanswerable presentation of the subject, with which we fully agree.
As will be seen in our review of the proceedings of the Grand Lodge of
Wyoming, which adopted like resolutions, we hold views similar to those
of Brother Robbins. We have always, since we were made a Mason, held
them, and contended that grand lodges might ignore such bodies, because
composed entirely of Masons, and because they build upon grand lodge
foundation, or material. But recognize them as sister Masonic bodies?
Never. A grand lodge, as such, knows nothing of these so-called higher
degrees, and should not therefore assume to have anything to do with, or
knowledge of, them. Besides, there are thousands of Master Masons who
know no more of or about Capitular, Templar and Scottish Rite Masonry
(?) than they do of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Red Men, etc.

How, then, can they know whether or not they are Masonic, and if not,
how can they recognize them as such?

We wish every Mason in the land had the opportunity to, and would,
read Brother Robbins' article. Could they do so, we are sure we would
have less of such bosh.

Coming to our annual communication of 1903, which he has the te-
merity— born perhaps of recent cyclones in Texas — to say was held in the
"Windy City," after giving the make-up of the 975 persons participating, he
says :

What an assembly ! And we guarantee there was not the least dis-
order. Can the same be said of any other body of equal size? We much
doubt it.

Nothing better, he thinks, could be said for the harmony of the craft,
than that the grand master, who, he says, "proved himself, beyond all
question, to be an earnest, wide-awake and intelligent officer, and well de-
serves, as he received, the commendation of the brethren," reported but two
decisions.

He notices the address of Grand Orator McFatrich, the legislation
anent the organized charities newly taken over, and the memorial services
held for our dead. His generous appreciation of our work in this depart-
ment is gratefully acknowledged. We value his regret and his conclusion
in the follow-ing :

We regret that the "resume" to which he refers in his preface failed
to reach the printer in time to be incorporated into his report. Give it to
us next year, brother. We, for one, would much like to have it. It treats
of a matter upon which we are pretty nearly agreed, though zvc, perhaps,
are not quite so strenuous, and probably do not go quite so far as he. But
he cannot be firmer or more persistent than we are in his opposition to all

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"supreme councils, sovereign sanctuaries, or other powers, however named,
wherever situated, of whatever rite — excepting (regular) Grand Lodges of
Free and Accepted Masons — assuming to erect lodges with authority to
confer the three- degrees of Symbolic Masonry."

We wish we could follow his advice to give it this year, because it was
written with unusual care and as we remember it, it satisfied us better
than any presentation of the subjects of which it treated — or some of them,
than any we had previously made. But perhaps this is only because it
was lost. It is always the biggest fish that gets away. The trouble is, it
not only did not reach the printer, but it never reached anywhere. A tracer
sent out immediately by the postal authorities proved to be a misnomer.
Nothing has been heard of it.

We last year printed his special report on the question (referred to
him) asked by Grand Master Kennon, of Washington: "Will you kindly
inform me what further action by us is desired by your grand lodge before
resuming fraternal relations?" Expressing our regret at the action of the
Grand Lodge of Texas, we said :

While the self-confessed suspicion of the action of Washington still
exists, we do not see how any further declaration could be of any value
to them (Texas). If the further demand is made simply as a matter of
punctilio, perhaps it is just as well that the jurisdictions should remain
apart until the healing influence of time brings about a reapproachment
without conscious effort on the part of either body.

Crediting us with dealing fairly by copying his report entire, he says.:

No, brother, the "demand," as you term it, was not "made simply as a
matter of punctilio," but because we did not think that the resolutions of
Washington repealed its former action, nor do we think so now. Does
not the refusal to adopt the resolution submitted by Brother Chadwick,
which in our reply we quoted, and which you reproduce, as to the meaning
of which there could not possibly be a doubt, virtually say that the grand
lodge still assumes to herself the right to declare legitimate and regular, if
she so choose, those whom the Grand Lodge of Illinois or Texas have al-
ready said were illegitimate, irregular, or clandestine? It does seem so
to us. We would be glad to see it differently, but in sincerity we cannot
We regret as much and as sincerely as any one the status of affairs as they
exist, and would willingly change it if we could conscientiously and hon-
estly do so. Washington, and she alone, can, if she will, at a word brush
away all doubt and uncertainty. It rests alone with her. Will she do it?
But we will not discuss the question further.

We are satisfied that in this, as in most matters, much depends — in
fact we might say everything depends — on the point of view. Brother
Matthews thinks the failure of the Grand Lodge of Washington to pass
the last resolution recommended by Brother Chadwick was significant of
some reservation. That resolution was as follows :

And further, that all lodges are forbidden to hold Masonic intercourse
with those determined to be clandestine by edict or decree, of any sover-
eign grand lodge falling within the terms of this resolution.

296 APPENDIX — PART I.

Reading this as we do, far enough in point of time from the late un-
pleasantness to do so entirely dispassionately — and as Brother Matthews
ought to he able to do by this time — we see in it no such significance as he
attaches to it. As it looks to us Brother Chadwick in his solictude to go
far enough, proposed a resolution more sweeping than he was aware of,
one that he would not probably propose since it has been widely discussed.
If lodges of reputed questionable legitimacy existed in Illinois and the
question of holding Masonic intercourse with them became a concrete one
through the action of our grand lodge in declaring them irregular and
clandestine, we doubt not that Texas would be among the first to remind
the Masons of her obedience of their duty under the law of Masonry. Yet
as an abstract proposition Texas would not adopt the resolution proposed
by Brother Chadwick. She could not do it without self-stultification, be-
cause she authorizes the Masons of her obedience to hold Masonic inter-
course with lodges (in Mexico, and perhaps elsewhere) which a sovereign
grand lodge (Illinois) has determined by formal action to be clandestine,
lacking any lawful Masonic status.

We do not know that this illustration will make the idea plain to him
as it lies in our own mind, but we shall be glad if it helps him to catch on
to it, even dimly, for we have such confidence in his sincerity that we
should then hope that good might come out of it — that is, good from our
point of view.

We do not deny the soft impeachment of the following:

Brother Robbins pronounces the Texas law on the "Perfect Youth"
doctrine "absurd." Well, we won't argue the correctness of the law now.
As is well known, we are not a very strict constructionist of the doctrine.
We believe that there are extremists on both sides, and we cannot, nor will
we, defend what we do not believe is perfectly right.

Yet such is the law of our grand lodge, and, as in duty bound, we bow
to its behests.

Yes, we all have to do that. In our own jurisdiction we have to bow
to laws which we do not believe to be right, but we don't have to say that
we believe in them, and we do not.

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UTAH, 1904.

33RD Annual. Salt Lake City. January 19.

Two excellent portraits of fine looking men — Grand Master Richard
Louis Conely and Past Grand Master William Thomas Dalby, adorn
the attractive Utah volume.

Nine past grand masters were present, one of whom, Arvis Scott
Chapman, the representative of Illinois, helped to swell the diplomatic
corps to thirty-nine.

The grand master (Walter Scott) announced the passing of William
Thomas Dalby, who was elected to the grand east in 1896, at the un-
timely age of forty-four, sincerely loved and deeply mourned. His virtues,
with those of others dead, were commemorated by a "lodge of sorrow," at
which a beautiful oration was delivered by Bro. Charles Stetson Varian.
The lodge of sorrow is not described, but we judge from the language of
the orator that the sable trappings and the candles were all there. Neither
these nor the term itself belong to the simplicity or the vocabulary of
Ancient Craft Masonry. The occasion was under the auspices of the
grand lodge warranted by a recommendation of the grand lodge in 1879,
"that the grand master call a lodge of sorrow some time during his term
of office,'' and promises to be perpetuated by the adoption of the following
at the session under review :

Resolved, That hereafter each grand master is required to arrange for
and hold a "lodge of sorrow" during the latter part of his term of office
and to extend an invitation to all the lodges in the jurisdiction to partici-
pate in the solemn ceremonies.

Referring to the spread of clandestine Masonry, the grand master rec-
ommended that the grand secretary be instructed to purchase a sufficient
number of copies of the year book proposed to be issued by the American
Tyler, containing the name, number, location, membership and names of
the principal officers of every regular lodge in the United States, to fur-
nish each lodge with two copies; but the grand lodge wisely concurred in
the following, reported by the jurisprudence committee:

We further recommend that no action be taken on the recommenda-
tion of our grand master for purchasing the proposed work of the Ameri-
can Tyler at Ann Arbor, Mich. On the contrary we douot the wisdom of
circulating or publishing any such information.

The following, from >the same committee, was also adopted :

Your committee on jurisprudence beg leave to recommend that the
action of the M. W. Grand Master of Texas in declaring that lodges in that
state working under pretended authority of the "Grand Lodge of the Fed-
eral District of Mexico" are "spurious and clandestine," is upheld and sus-
tained by this grand body.

298 APPENDIX — PART I

One lodge was temporarily put on wheels by the dispensing power:

On July 27, 1903, I granted a special dispensation to Damascus No.
10, to open a lodge at Sunnyside on August 15, and then and there to con-
fer the E. A. Degree on candidates, whose petitions had been presented
and duly considered at regular meetings of Damascus lodge. On Septem-
ber ir, I granted the same lodge a dispensation to open a lodge at Helper
on September 25 and 26, and then and there to pass the entered apprentices
made under the former dispensation and confer the E. A. Degree upon
petitioners duly accepted by them at their regular meetings.

T may here mention, that both of the places mentioned are within the
jurisdiction of Damascus lodge, and that the brethren of Damascus lodge
were required to have present its charter and seven members of the lodge,
one of which should be the master or one of the wardens.

The information which turned the scale in favor of granting these dis-
pensations, is not given :

These two dispensations were granted only after long and careful con-
sideration and consultation with members of the grand lodge, and with the
facts and statements set before me, I found it my plain duty to grant them,
as being for the best interest of the craft in this jurisdiction. Among other
facts brought to my attention was the frequent request from other lodges
presented to Damascus lodge for waiver of jurisdiction over material lo-
cated in the territory, where the proposed meetings were to be held, no
less than eight such requests being presented at one meeting, while hardly
a meeting was held by Damascus lodge without one or more requests be-
ing presented to them. Information received upon my inquiry, as to the
reasons for these requests had a great deal to do with the granting of these
dispensations.

His action was approved, as was also his one decision reported — a
double header — as follows :

An expelled Mason can only be restored to the rights and privileges
of Masonry by action of the grand lodge.

When so restored, his standing is that of an unaffiliated Mason. The
grand master has no authority to restore an expelled Mason during recess
of the grand lodge.

The committee referred to in the following, was on motion of one of
its members, discharged — a wise conclusion :

At our last communication, by order of the grand lodge, I appointed a
committee on physical disabilities. I fear, my brethren, that you have given
this committee a task too hard to perform, especially since the loss of one
of their number, on whose knowledge of men a great deal depended. The
formulation of a list of disabilities, which should disqualify a man from
being made a Mason, is a task well nigh impossible, if it should be a safe
and sure guide for the craft, as there is so many degrees of each disability
that the construction of such disqualifications would lead to endless con-
fusion and misunderstanding. I would recommend that this question be
left to be decided, as each case comes up, by the grand master at the time,
feeling sure, that he. with the assistance of counsel from his brethren, will
be fully able to decide it to the satisfaction of the craft.

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The following, offered and signed by thirteen past masters went to the
committee on jurisprudence to be reported on next year:

Resolved, That the by-laws of the Grand Lodge of F. and A. M. of
Utah be so amended as to allow the past masters of each lodge in the jur-
isdiction, one vote in the grand lodge.

We trust that the movement will come to naught, as its success would
tend to impair the representative character of the grand lodge.

The grand lodge chartered one new lodge ; ordered that the grand
orator be required to deliver an oration at each annual communication ;
voted to meet next year at Ogden ; accepted an invitation (which with
characteristic hospitality included also the visiting brethren) to become the
guests of the local fraternity at the banquet table immediately after clos-
ing; decorated the retiring grand master with a jewel of his rank, and
received with interest the following report from the grand master :

The past grand master's jewel voted to M. W. Bro. A. D. Gash was
at my request presented to him by Bro. Charles M. Harvey, worshipful
master of Columbian Lodge No. 819, of Chicago, 111., at a special meeting
of that lodge held February 20, 1903, and I am informed that as a special
Masonic occasion the presentation of the jewel and the response by Past
Grand Master Gash was a highly successful affair, making a page in the
history of Columbian Lodge No. 819 devoted to Utah Masons. I am also
informed by the grand secretary that the jewel for Bro. A. M. Grant,
P. G. M., has been duly delivered him.

Richard Louis Conely was elected grand master; Christopher
Diehl, re-elected grand secretary, both of Salt Lake City.

The report on correspondence (118 pp.) is by the grand secretary,
Chris. Diehl (he signs his name in full now, but he will always be
"Chris." to us) and is the twenty-eighth from his hand. It reflects the
garnered wisdom of many years of reading and reflection.

His notice of Illinois is of the communication of 1903, and the last
year of Grand Master Moulton's administration, which he praises as
efficient, firm, but kind. The oration of Brother McFatrich (who has, he
says, many friends in that neck of woods) impresses him as most eloquent
and loyal, and he gives samples to account for the faith that is in him.

One of our lodges under dispensation arrests his attention, and he
says of it :

One lodge U. D. named Argenta made so many blunders in its reports
and records that it was thought best to continue it another year U. D. The
brethren should take lessons from our Argenta Lodge No. 3, which is one
of the best lodges in Utah. But what wonders us is that name ! The name
of our Argenta lodge was chosen on account of the mines in Utah produc-
ing piles of silver (argentum), but we never heard of an Emma, or On-
tario, or Silver King mine in Illinois.

300 APPENDIX — PART I.

He shares our fears that in attempting to formulate a list of physical
disabilities which would debar a candidate from receiving the degrees, his
grand lodge had started out on an unwise chase and expresses the hope
that a report of that kind will never be adopted — we are glad to be able
to congratulate him that something better, even, happened ; the committee,
as we have seen, appointed to chase and capture the jack-o'-lantern, hav-
ing given up the quest and asked to be discharged.

Brother Diehl supplements his report with a critical examination of
the report of the New Jersey committee on landmarks, republished from
the Shibboleth (Memphis). It is by Past Grand Master Frederic Speed,
the representative of Illinois near the Grand Lodge of Mississippi and is a
paper of such value that we are glad to call attention to it.

VERMONT, 1904.

iiith Annual. Burlington. . June 15.

It did not need the high lights of the photographer to make the finely
cut face of Myron J. Horton, whose portrait adorns this volume, a strik-
ing one.

Among the nine past grand masters present, all helping to swell the
diplomatic corps to thirty-three, was Delos M. Bacon, the representative
of Illinois. Past Grand Master George W. Tyler, of Quebec, was a

visitor.

The grand master, Olin \Y. Daley, announced the death of Myron
J. Horton, grand junior warden, in his sixty-fifth year. He was buried
with Masonic honors by the grand lodge. Dead also was Dan. P. Web-
ster, past deputy grand master, aged fifty-seven. Their memories, with
those of Past Grand Master Lavant M. Read, Grand Steward Daniel
C. Barber, and Past Grand Senior Deacon Hiram A. Smith, whose pass-
ing had been previously reported, were recalled with appreciative tributes
at a lodge of sorrow held on the evening of the first day's session.

All the many questions submitted to the grand master for decision had
been answered by reference to recorded precedents.

In his report of fraternal courtesies received, the grand master refers
to the conferring of the third degree in St. John's Lodge, Boston, by mem-
bers of Fitzroy Lodge, London, England, according to the English ritual,
on which occasion he was a guest, as noted in our review of Massachusetts.

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE. 301

His information as to the personnel of the visiting lodge is of general

interest :

The membership of Fitzroy Lodge is composed entirely of members
of the Honorable Artillery Company of London. It was organized in 1849,
and is named for the lieutenant-colonel of the company, who was senior
grand warden of the Grand Lodge of England in 1842. It was organized
entirely within the regiment and has been maintained exclusively ever
since.

Of the eighty-one members of Fitzroy Lodge, thirty-three were guests
of St. John's Lodge on this occasion. Although the work of our English
brethren was unique in character as compared with our own, yet their
work on this occasion was one of the best symbolic exemplifications that
it had ever been my privilege to witness.

His report of waivers of jurisdiction asked for, and requests for work
by courtesy, or proxy, as between Vermont lodges and those of other
states, would indicate that in New Jersey, Canada, Connecticut, New
York and Colorado, the grand master is supposed to share with the lodges
the personal and territorial jurisdiction until recently held to be vested in
the latter.

Of a portion of the grand lodge literature he says :

The editions of Pocket Hand Books and Rituals having been ex-
hausted and there being a demand for additional copies, on the 22nd day
of July I directed the grand secretary to have a new edition of one thous-
and copies of each printed.

By the report of the finance committee the cost of printing these edi-
tions was $410. The sales were :

382 Rituals $382 00

296 Monitors (Hand books ?) 296 00

3 P. M. Rituals 3 00

Notwithstanding the slump in sales of the P. M. variety (7 were
sold last year), the business yielded a margin of profit that must be a great
temptation to the Chicago and New York dealers in contraband goods.

In chronicling the events incident to the constituting of Valley Lodge
No. 106, and dedication of its new hall, at Barton's Landing, the grand
master says :

One of the pleasant features of this meeting was the presence of M.W.
Bro. Nathan P. Bowman, the oldest living past grand master of the Grand
Lodge of Vermont, and one of the oldest Masons in the state. He was
introduced by the grand master, and received by the brethren with the
public grand honors.

At the session under review the old veteran was not forgotten. At
the very opening of the grand lodge the following was adopted and wired
to Grand Senior Warden Calderwood :

Learning with deep sorrow of the death of the beloved wife of Past
Grand Master Nathan P. Bowman and of his own enfeebled condition;

302 APPENDIX — PART I.

Resolved, That the grand lodge convey to him through our grand senior
warden, K. W. Charles A. Calderwood, who is now with him, our warm-
est love and most profound sympathy, praying that He who is the source
of every Mason's hope may bless him and give to him consolation and
peace.

The grand lodge chartered one new lodge ; ordered the codifying,
editing and printing of a new digest of decisions ; added fifty per cent to
the compensation of the chairman of the committee on correspondence,
making it $150 for a report that would be a bargain at twice the money;
received from Past Grand Master Park Davis, now a resident of Sioux
Falls, S. D., a letter of grateful acknowledgment for the gift of an ele-
gant past grand master's apron ; has pending an amendment to the by-
laws threatening with loss of mileage the representative of lodges delin-
quent or tardy with returns, dues and assessments ; and indulged in so
much of quiet humor in adopting the following, as turns upon the dual
role of Brother Daley as both retiring and incoming grand master :

Resolved, That the incoming grand master is hereby authorized to
procure a suitable past grand master's jewel for the retiring grand master,
and see that the same is presented at an opportune time.

Olin W. Daley, of White River Junction, grand master; Henry H.
Ross, Burlington, grand secretary, were re-elected.

The report on correspondence (178 pp.) by Past Grand Master Marsh
O. Perkins, is another of those inimitable papers whose sparkling points
only light up their more solid qualities.

His notice of Illinois is of the communication of 1903, and the con-
cluding year of Grand Master Moulton's administration.

At the outset he runs up against the word "innovation" as applied to
the musical exercises incident to the opening of the grand lodge, to say
that the thing itself is far from being an innovation in Vermont. Perhaps
the descriptive word was not happily chosen. We have had singing by a
quartet, off and on — mostly on — for a good many years, but it cracked
the opening-wedge precedents a little when a single lodge — St. Cecelia —
furnished a large and highly-trained orchestra as well.

(St. Cecelia No. 865, whose name bespeaks particular attention to the
sixth science, is long also on the first, second and seventh — the fifth goes
without saying — it being composed largely of professional musicians and
others more or less allied to the dramatic profession, whence stars of
greater or less magnitude, lay and otherwise, and a residium of unresolved
nebula.)

Turning to the grand master's address, he says :

The annual address of the grand master is a model, business-like, Ma-
sonic state paper, and easily ranks among the very best of the year. His
official acts are presented with a clearness and directness rarely excelled;

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE. 303

his decisions are tersely stated, and his words of counsel and admonition
apply directly to the actual, rather than fancied, exigencies of the brethren
of the Prairie State.

He commends his suppression of the "Singing Section,'' projected
bibulous Sunday picnic; his prompt and energetic measures to meet the
threatened Pinney invasion, and copies to commend his remarks as to the
beneficent effects of ritualistic correctness and impressiveness on the har-
mony, prosperity and law-abiding character of a lodge.

He refers to the "masterly address" of Grand Orator McFatrich at
the laying of the corner-stone of the new Masonic Home, and reproduces
the concluding words of his oration before the grand lodge.

He calls us down with dignified and courteous sharpness in his notice
of the brief introduction of our last year's report :

To his mind, the great event of the current Masonic year was the
publication of the long-promised Concise History of Freemasonry, by that
eminent Masonic historian, Robert Freke Gould, "whose great history pub-
lished about sixteen years ago in England, and pirated and republished
in this country in 1889, was the first general history of Masonry worthy
of the name" — italics ours. Having renewed this charge of piracy, so ably
refuted by the late, illustrious Brother Drummond in 1900, it becomes
Brother Robbins to prove the assertion, or modify at least his statement.
We concur heartily in the estimate of Brother Gould's labors, but must
confess to surprise that Brother Robbins should in his unbounded admira-
tion of the same permit his reason and sense of justice to be swayed ap-
parently by prejudice, to say the least.

We made the statement that the work of the English historian was
pirated in this country with no doubt of its correctness ; hence we infer
that we can never have seen Brother Drummond's refutation of the same
charge previously made. Brother Drummond's statement is not, at this
late hour, accessible to us. As we live so near Missouri — only the river
between us — we "have to be shown," and so the nearest we can come to
modifying our statement now, is to let Brother Perkin's statement of its
refutation stand over against it. We have not time to look up the evi-
dence on which we made it, and must let the other alternative pass for
the present.

Of our notice of Vermont he says :

Somehow he finds "it's a far cry from Nashville to Burlington," and
says : "Somewhere on the weary way the Tennessee resolution against
cipher rituals seems to have gotten lost." Not at all, Bro. R. Its receipt
was courteously acknowledged. What further attention did it require?
Vermont openly acknowledges the existence, and provides an authorized
recognition of a standard which Tennessee and some others profess to
disclaim, and yet utter grievous complaint each year because of some un-
authorized substitute. Furthermore Vermont is not compelled to take up
the line of departure to the Kansas "Plats," wherever that may be, or ad-
vertise on the floor of grand lodge each year, through her grand master
and committees, Chicago and New York dealers in forbidden ritualistic
fruit.

304 APPENDIX — PART I.

We can only beg pardon for not having found the acknowledgment of
the receipt of the Tennessee resolution. When we get down to V in our
alphabetical review we are almost inevitably in the pinch between time
and the printer, and if, as is more than possible, we overlooked what we
should have found, we want to emulate Vermont in the open acknowledg-
ment which is said to be good for the soul, and by which she prudently
keeps that side of her account white. We judge from his doubtful refer-
ence to the whereabouts of the Kansas plats that like ourselves he has
never seen them. It is inevitable, however, that a Yankee should guess,
and having thus in spite of ourselves invested them with substance as a
diagrammatic entity, we keep on guessing whether the Vermont "'Floor
Work" — apart from its existence as a "copy," is like them, a condition and
not a theory.

From his notice of Western Australia we take the following, with
which we are in accord, and from which we are glad to find that so far
as expressed his views are in accord with what we have elsewhere in this
report, said of the bouquet-tossing of the brevet rank business, in its ex-
isting form :

The meetings of grand lodge are held quarterly, and accompanying
the published proceedings of the same is found a fine page-portrait of the
grand master, M. W. John Winthrop Hackett, whose return from a visit
to England during the year was celebrated by the craft with great rejoic-
ings. While abroad he was invested with "the exalted dignity of past
grand warden" of the mother grand lodge — a questionable honor in our
opinion to be accepted by the accredited head of a sovereign grand body.
The grand master of the Grand Lodge of Vermont, or any other inde-
pendent, sovereign grand lodge, is the peer officially of the grand master of
the Grand Lodge of England. What dignity can be gained then in the ac-
ceptance of an honorarium of lower rank. To our mind, such acceptance
is but an acknowledgment of subservience to the Grand Lodge of Eng-
land. We would bow in honor and reverence to the mother grand lodge,
but maintain that the honors in her hands to bestow should be equal in
importance and dignity of those already held Masonically by the recipient.

Referring to the report of the Kansas committee on the grand honors,
which they decide to be three — private, public and funeral— he says :

The first and last, as we understand it, are the same as are accepted
in Vermont, but the public grand honors are to be given by striking the
palms of the hands together "three times three." In Vermont the public
honors the same as the funeral honors, with the accompanying words
omitted.

Touching the conditional recognition of the Grand Lodge Valle de
Mexico by Missouri, he advises the latter not to let go of that string be-
fore she is dead sure what she is doing, and adds : "It has already been
pretty thoroughly demonstrated that the professions of these so-called
Mexican Masons must be accepted, not with a grain but with a whole
cargo of salt."

We had noted other, points for reference, but for reasons already
more than hinted at we must forbear.

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE. 305

VICTORIA, 1903.

13TH Annual. Melbourne. March 18.

Quarterly communications were held March 18, June 17, September 16,
and December 16. The grand anniversary meeting of Ma}' 20, was for the
installation of the grand master and the investiture of the grand lodge
officers. The Hon. Alexander James Peacock, who was elected at the
March quarterly, having been duly proclaimed grand master, appointed
Bro. Dr. W. Balls-Headley to be his own successor, and he was, accord-
ingly proclaimed deputy grand master. Past Senior Grand Warden John
Braim remains grand secretary, (P. O. address, Melbourne.)

Congratulations were received by wire from Grand Master Reming-
ton, of New South Wales ; and those of twenty-four other grand lodges
were tendered by their representatives present, Illinois not of the number.

At the March quarterly the deputy grand master presiding extended
a formal welcome to the Rt. Rev. H. Lowther Clarke, bishop of Mel-
bourne, past provincial grand chaplain of the West Riding, Yorkshire,
England, and assured him "that not only there but all through the country
districts, the right hand of Masonic fellowship would be extended to him."

The minutes continue :

Bro.. Dr. Clarke said that he wished to say a few words of reply to the
very hearty welcome which had been accorded to him on this, the occasion
of his first visit to the Grand Lodge of Victoria. He had been a Mason
for something like twenty years, and if the duties of his sacred office had
prevented him from accepting office in lodges at home, he had had many
opportunities of judging of the advantages of Freemasonry. He had been
induced to join Masonry by language used with respect to it by his valued
friend the present Dean of York, who was, at the present time one of the
grand chaplains of the Grand Lodge of England. He knew of no brother-
hood in the world which was so real as the brotherhood of Masonry, and
he considered it a remarkable thing that whilst they were separated from
each other in religious and political life, it should be possible to combine
with each other in Masonry on the simple idea of the brotherhood of man
and man. He feared from what he already saw before him that the work
in connection with his sacred office would prevent his doing much in
Masonry, but he hoped to come among them occasionally to enjoy a Ma-
sonic evening, and make himself acquainted with them. He hoped it
would be made known by those present that the Bishop of Melbourne was
a Mason, and delighted in being one, and had no intention to hide his
Masonry under his episcopal apron.

One hundred pounds was appropriated for the relief of the drought
sufferers in the north.

306 APPENDIX — PART I.

At the June quarterly Grand Master Pe'acock was on the throne.
Thirty-four jurisdictions were represented in the diplomatic corps, Illi-
nois by Edward Edwards.

The grant of £100 for the drought relief fund was confirmed.

The death of Thomas Harding, past senior grand warden, was an-
nounced, "an old and esteemed brother," said the grand master, "who had
taken an active part in Freemasonry in this territory, and whom they
could "ill spare." For a long time and until his death he was a member
of the board of general purposes.

The new rule adopted by the Grand Lodge of England, which we
chronicled as growing out of the Regent Park Lodge appeal case, in our
review of England in 1902, was adopted by the Grand Lodge of Victoria.
In the case referred to a brother twice elected senior warden of Regent
Park Lodge, was in neither year installed until some months after his
election, being absent with his militia regiment. Although he had served
sixteen or more months as warden, he was held to be ineligible to the
master's station. This position was taken by the board of general pur-
poses on the advice of the law officer of the grand lodge, the grand regis-
trar. In his appeal to the grand lodge the appellant contended that the
service of more than twelve months, although not continuous, satisfied
the law, and carried the grand lodge with him. The grand registrar, how-
ever, succeeded in getting through a new rule which requires a dispensation
to render a warden eligible to the chair, whose twelve months' service has
not been continuous, and it is this rule which the Grand Lodge of Victoria
has adopted.

Inasmuch as there is no constraint of the law in the case — there being
no such landmark — it seems a pity that the young grand lodge should tie
itself up by a rule that has no foundation in practical wisdom. It would
have been just as easy to have dispensed with the red tape by making the
rule reflect the view of the appellant in the Regent Park Lodge case.

Another new rule borrowed from recent English legislation, is that any
brother whose dues shall be three years in arrears to any lodge shall
thereupon cease to be a member of the lodge and can only become a mem-
ber again by regular proposition and ballot, and that while excluded under
this rule shall have the same status as if he had been excluded by vote.

The adoption of this rule is greatly to be regretted. A law by whose
automatic operation a brother is deprived of any of his rights without a
hearing, is so bad as to be indefensible ; but one which deprives the lodge
of the right to determine at what time it will institute proceedings for de-
linquency for dues, is still worse. The rule was forcibly opposed on this
latter ground when it came up for final action, as shown by the following
minutes, but without avail :

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R. W. Bro. H. Bannister, D.D.G.M., said he wished to oppose the
confirmation of the rule as he considered the constitutions provided ample
means for dealing with members who allowed themselves to get into
arrears. He thought it was not for grand lodge to decide how long the
fees of a member of a private lodge should be allowed to remain unpaid.
The matter of deciding when a member should pay, and how long he
should go before proceedings were taken against him, was a matter which
a lodge should have in its own hands.

W. Bro. H. J. D' Helin, W. M. No. 5, said that he agreed with all that
had been said by R. W. Bro. Bannister, and thought this was not a matter
to be decided by grand lodge.

At the September quarterly the new rules were confirmed ; £50 was
appropriated for the relief of the sufferers by cyclone at Townsville ; and
one lodge, dormant for over a year, was erased from the register with the
tacit consent of its members.

At the December quarterly appropriate action was taken on the death
of W. H. Robins, grand herald ; the formation of two new lodges was
reported ; the grand master was nominated for re-election, and the Grand
Lodge of Costa Rica was recognized.

VIRGINIA, 1903.

126th Annual. Richmond. December i.

Virginia gives us this year a half-tone portrait of Thomas N. Davis,
the incoming grand master.

Five past grand masters were present, headed by Beverley W. Well-
ford, Jr., the representative of Illinois; thirty-two other jurisdictions were
represented.

After a brief exordium reflecting genuine appreciation of the privilege
of standing for a year among the rulers of men; filled with state pride,
and overflowing with gratitude for the loyalty, devotion and long-suffering
patience of the craft, which had been so much to him through a year of
trouble, disappointments, sickness and bereavement, the grand master
(Ed. N. Eubank) announced the death of three district deputy grand
masters — J. I. Galloway, James O'Keefe and James B. Sener (the latter
chairman of the committee on jurisprudence), and Lewis G. Bell, mem-
ber of the committee on work.

308 APPENDIX — PART I.

Among the grand representatives he reported as having appointed, is
Amos Pettibone, near the Grand Lodge of Illinois, to succeed the la-
mented Browning.

He had declined to issue a majority of the dispensations asked for,
and in this connection says :

I desire to sound a note of warning for my brethren. I invariably de-
clined to grant dispensations where the purpose was stated, or I had rea-
son to believe it was to enable a candidate to take the degrees so as to
qualify him to petition a so-called higher body a little sooner than he
otherwise could. My brethren, I stand before you as a Knight Templar
and a 32d of the Southern Jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite, and I am proud
of it ; but after all is said and done, there is nothing higher or nobler than
Blue Lodge Masonry, the corner-stone and foundation of all Masonry,
by whatever name known. I have been advised that sometimes a candidate
is solicited to sign a petition for a body beyond the Blue Lodge even be-
fore he is raised, thus making our lodges mere stepping-stones to some-
thing else, and lowering Blue Masonry from its rightful position in the
eyes, not only of candidates, but of brethren who should be better in-
formed. I call your attention to this, not out of antagonism to any other
branch of Masonry, but because it is an evil which it is in your power ■
to correct.

Calling attention to a resolution changing the date of meeting of the
grand lodge to the first Tuesday in January, reported upon adversely last
year, but the further consideration of which had been postponed until this
communication, he says :

I recommend to the grand lodge that this resolution be adopted, with
the change from the first to the second Tuesday in January. The month
of December was originally chosen, because that was the time the legisla-
ture assembled, and it was an advantage for lodges at a distance to send
proxies to brethren who were in Richmond on official business, and who
could attend the grand lodge conveniently. If the same reasoning pre-
vails, the resolution should be adopted, as under the new constitution the
legislature will assemble hereafter in January. The change of date will be
more convenient to the grand secretary, who now finds his business ar-
rangements with the printers interfered with by Christmas and New Year
holidays.

The date was finally changed from the first Tuesday in December to
the second Tuesday in February.

He manifested his accord with his predecessors in their opposition to
life membership, by disapproving by-laws providing for exemption from
dues for members over fifty-five years of age who have been members for
fifteen years.

Virginia, like Illinois, does not permit alleged Masons not made in
lodges of Ancient Craft Masons, to visit her lodges. The grand master
properly decided that this law did not apply to brethren from Louisiana
lodges permitted to work in the Scottish Rite by the grand lodge of that
state. He savs :

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That grand jurisdiction allows certain lodges holding charters from
it to work in that Rite, and they are under its jurisdiction and control,
and as this grand lodge exchanges representatives with the Grand Lodge
of Louisiana, what is legal in that grand jurisdiction cannot be illegal in
this ; so I made the decision referred to above.

The committee on grand master's address (consisting of all the past
grand masters) took issue with this, saying:

We regret that we cannot concur with the grand master in his view
of section 252, thus allowing brethren from Louisiana whose lodges are
allowed to work in Scottish Rite, in that state, to visit our lodges. We
are not sufficiently informed by our grand master of the condition of
affairs in Louisiana, but we deem it our duty to enter our solemn protest
against allowing any person to visit our lodges who was not entered,
passed and raised under the Ancient York Rite. As York Rite Masons,
we recognize no other ritual, and we believe that any qualification or abate-
ment of this fundamental law of the grand lodge would be productive of
mischief.

So long as Louisiana is recognized as a sovereign grand lodge and the
peer of other grand lodges, all grand lodges and Masons so recognizing
her are bound to give full faith and credit to all her Masonic acts as
those of the ultimate source of all Masonic authority in that jurisdiction.
All lodges chartered by the Grand Lodge of Louisiana must be conceded
to be regular lodges, and the product of their w*ork regular Masons, re-
gardless of the fact that she may tolerate in some of them the practice of
a ritual other than that almost universally prevailing within her jurisdic-
tion. In other words, the Grand Lodge of Louisiana is universally recog-
nized as a regular grand lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, and to the
outside world of Masonry all lodges holding charters therefrom are lodges
of Free and Accepted Masons, and all Masons of its obedience belong in
the same category.

The grand master found that apart from cases of trespass, which were
susceptible of easy settlement by the application of the principles of the
law and common sense, the chief causes of trouble between brethren within
the lodges were due to attempts to smoke. out those who cast rejecting
ballots and to petty politics, and he has some sound remarks on these
subjects.

In 1S9S the Virginia law respecting appeals was so amended as to
enable the grand lodge to restore a brother erroneously or unjustly con-
victed and sentenced to suspension or expulsion, on appeal therefrom, to
all the rights of which he had been thus deprived. The grand master rec-
ommended the abrogation of this beneficent statute and a return to the
older law which forbade the grand lodge to restore a brother to member-
ship in his lodge; but although he was supported in this by both the com-
mittee on address and the committee on jurisprudence, the proposition
was rejected.

310 APPENDIX. — PART I.

We judge that the chief factor in causing the grand master to bring
forward this proposition was the Tuck case, decided by the grand lodge
last year in favor of Bsother Tuck, who appealed from the action of his
lodge and a committee of past masters expelling him from Masonry. The
grand master says :

This action of the grand lodge caused great dissatisfaction among
the brethren of South Boston Lodge and its vicinity, and strong pres-
sure was brought to bear on me to exercise my prerogative and set aside
the action of the grand lodge. This I declined to do, not because I
doubted my right or power so to act, but because I doubted its expediency,
and I finally agreed with the brethren interested, that I would call atten-
tion to the matter in my address. I now do so, and further say that it is the
opinion of many brethren that the action of the grand lodge resulted in a
miscarriage of justice. Should the grand lodge decide to reopen this case,
I purpose to refer it to a special committee on appeals, not composed of
any who were on last year's committee, or who have, to my knowledge,
expressed an opinion on the subject.

Of this extraordinary deliverance the committee on address say (with
grand lodge concurrence) :

We are constrained to differ with our grand master as to the recom-
mendation of the reopening of the Tuck case. An end to all litigation is
always earnestly desired, especially in a Masonic household, and from this
well-known maxim of common law and common sense, in the judgment
of your committee, when an appeal has been taken to the grand lodge
and the accused acquitted, it is not only inexpedient but unjust to reopen
the case and practically retry the accused. Not only would it be reopen-
ing old sores and give rise to angry litigation, but it would subject the
man a second time to expense, suffering, and probably injustice. All lodges
should cheerfully and willingly accept as final the solemn decision of the
grand lodge, and, where the party has been acquitted, promptly bury the
whole matter in oblivion. We have no doubt that the expressions of our
grand master in regard to his right to overrule the action of the grand
lodge were made without due consideration. In the judgment of your
committee, when the Grand Lodge of Virginia has passed upon a question
of this nature, and the result has been the acquittal of the accused, the
grand master has no more right to interfere with the decision than he has
to alter the ancient landmarks of Masonry; and no subsequent grand
lodge has the right to reopen or reverse the solemn verdict of acquittal of
the grand lodge. The grand master, during recess, has certain powers,
and is the grand lodge ad interim, but he has no right to reverse the
solemn decision of the grand lodge.

Twenty-one decisions were reported; we copy in part:

5. Soldiers in the army of the United States are subject to the laws
of residence like other profanes.

6. A brother holding a dimit can petition for affiliation at pleasure,
and does not have to live under the jurisdiction of the lodge any specified
time.

9. That the mere fact that a man was a dwarf was not a bar to his
petitioning for initiation, if he could physically conform to the ritual.

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io. That a master could set aside a verdict of his lodge, and a lodge
could reconsider its vote expelling a brother, where any irregularity ex-
isted, or where one or more members claimed to have voted in error, thus
reopening the case de novo.

11. That a Fellow Craft initiated and passed in an extinct lodge, who
then petitioned a lodge near him for advancement and was rejected, and
then moved into the jurisdiction of another lodge, could petition the sec-
ond lodge for advancment, provided he has been in its jurisdiction twelve
months.

12. A candidate for initiation must be twenty-one years of age when
he signs his petition, not when he is balloted upon. The only exception
is in the case of a "Lewis," and then it requires a dispensation from the
grand master.

1.3. Where the tiler is a member of a lodge he cannot be prevented
from voting on all questions before the lodge, should he desire to do and
has so notified the master. This decision was given to clarify a doubtful
point raised under section 199 of the Methodical Digest.

18. That the length of time a Mason has been holding his dimit is no
bar to his being received by a lodge as a member. He can petition when
he pleases, without regard to the date of his dimit.

19. That it is not unlawful to use black cubes in the ballot box in
the place of black balls.

20. The jurisdiction of a chartered lodge, located in an incorporated
city or town, commences from the corporate limits of such city or town
and extends over adjacent territory until its meets concurrent jurisdiction
or the half-way limit of the next lodge or lodges. The jurisdiction of a
chartered lodge not located in an incorporated city or town, but in a vil-
lage, place or locality, shall be calculated from the location of the lodge-
room. This decision was rendered to clear up doubtful points as to sec-
tions 156 and 223 of the Methodical Digest.

From our standpoint none of these require comment until we reach
No. 10, which we presume to rest on local regulations. No such power is
vested in the master in Illinois as to set aside a verdict once it has been
reached. If manifest errors cropped out showing that a verdict had not
been really reached, it would be clearly within the master's power and
duty to proced to another ballot. The conditions stated in No. 11 could
not exist under Illinois law, under which when a lodge becomes extinct
the nearest lodge falls heir to its unfinished work as well as to its territory.
Referring to No. 12, no exception is made in favor of a lewis in the Illi-
nois code, and like the Virginia law it requires the applicant to be twenty-
one years of age when he signs the petition. No. 13 was a recent burning
question in our grand lodge. In the Virginia case the following dissenting
opinion was not adopted, and under their law decisions stand until dis-
approved :

We are constrained to differ with the grand master in his thirteenth
decision, as to the right of a tiler to vote on all questions which come be-
fore the lodge. When the Mason appointed to this office accepts it, he

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accepts it with the knowledge that his place is without the door, and that
his duty is to remain there, except when he can be temporarily relieved.
This relief ought to be afforded him when he desires to ballot upon a peti-
tion for initiation, passing or raising or membership; but in other cases his
position, preventing him from hearing both the evidence and argument,
we think it would be unwise to say that he had a right to enter the lodge-
room to vote in all cases.

Nos. iS and 19 are in accord with our law. Xo. 20 differs from our
law in that under the latter corporate lines cut no figures with the
lodges outside of the territory wherein jurisdiction is concurrent, the gen-
eral law that territorial jurisdiction extends half-way on right lines to the
nearest lodges, prevailing.

The grand master declined to issue a dispensation to a lodge to attend
religious service as a body, "deeming Divine worship a Masonic occasion,
and one not needing a dispensation from the grand master." This was not
passed upon unless it was included under the blanket concurrence '"in the
other decisions and action of the grand master" by the committee on
address.

The grand master declined a re-election.

The committee on correspondence reporting on the grand master's
reference to clandestine Masons, recommended as follows, and the grand
lodge concurred :

1. That the grand secretary have printed, in large type, 1,000 copies
of the list, to be furnished him by the chairman of this committee, of
clandestine lodges, and furnish two copies thereof to each subordinate
lodge of this grand jurisdiction; that one of said copies be pasted in
the back of the minute book of each lodge, the other to be posted con-
spicuously in the ante-room, and that when a person applies for examina-
tion for the purpose of visiting, he be required to furnish in his own hand-
writing the name, location and number of his lodge, and that the secretary
of the examining lodge shall refer to the said list before the visitor is
examined.

2. That the grand secretary, from time to time, furnish any additions
to said list as the same may be reported to him by the committee on for-
eign correspondence.

3. Your committee recommends that a postal card be at once sent
by the secretary of any lodge visited to the home lodge of the visitor,
sending fraternal greetings and informing the visitor's lodge of such visit,
and if any visitor be proven to be an imposter the secretary of the visited
lodge at once communicate with our grand secretary, who shall notify the
Masonic Relief Association of the United States and Canada, and use any
other means he may deem advisable to protect the craft from further being
imposed upon by such imposter.

Six new lodges were chartered and one continued under dispensation.

In the lines of forced economy the grand lodge was assembled at a
later hour than usual and the usual refreshments were cut out. whereby
the grand master estimated a saving of $550. His successor might save a

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pretty penny by calling off the grand lodge from day to day, instead of
closing at every session, whereby a great amount of printing would be
dispensed with ; nothing lost to anybody, and nothing broken but a tradi-
tion which so far as we can see has no significance.

Thomas N. Davis, of Lynchburg, was elected grand master; George
W. Carrington, Richmond, re-elected grand secretary.

The report on correspondence (119 pp.) is again the handiwork of
R. W. Bro. Joseph W. Eggleston, who was elected to the grand south
(wherefore we hail him Thane of Cawdor). It has the customary ster-
ling qualities of his work, in which solidity is never a synonym for dullness.

His notice of Illinois is for 1903. He thus refers to Grand Master
Moulton's address :

The grand master rejoices in an increase of nearly 3,600, which we
hope is all of it a character to be proud of. Increase in membership is not
as much a matter for congratulation as a careful guarding of the doors.
We say this because it is true, not that we for a moment suppose that this
vast increase in imperial Illinois indicates laxity.

He briefly summarizes the address and the more important items of
business, and copies a couple of paragraphs from the memorial services.

He reproduces from the Illinois report on correspondence dissenting
from the idea that attending divine service is a Masonic occasion, and
because we arched our eyebrows at one of their practices gives this bit of
valued information :

He does not seem to understand why we leave the committee on ad-
dress to pass on decisions, in view of our having adopted the report of the
committee on jurisprudence, assigning all questions of Masonic law to
that committee. The explanation is that Virginia holds that decisions of
grand masters immediately become law, and remain law, until the annual
communication, when they are either approved (personally, we would
prefer the term "adopted,'-) and become permanent law, or are disap-
proved, and cease to operate for the future. For this reason, we hold that
they should be passed on by a committee of the grand master's peers —
viz., past grand masters. If they were referred to the committee on jur-
isprudence they would be passed upon by a committee selected by their
author.

And of the baby :

He noticed our resolutions on the birth of a son to the grand master
while he was presiding in the grand east. We are happy to inform him
that the boy is named John Blair, after our first grand master, and has a
silver loving cup inscribed to commemorate the event.

Elsewhere he speaks of the boy "as our some-day grand master."

Sh — ! Don't handicap a Virginia boy with the idea that he is des-
tined for anything short of the presidency.

814 APPENDIX — PART I.

WASHINGTON. 1903.

46TH Annual. Seattle. June 9.

With the clock telling off the hours with frightful and apparently in-
creasing rapidity in the pinch of the last waning days ere our last "copy"
must be in the hands of the printer, practically twenty- four hours distant,
to sit down to the first stroke of a notice of a volume so rich in matter as
this one before us, is well-nigh appalling. Seventy-five of its over four
hundred closely-printed pages are required to tell the story of the special
communication of the grand lodge convened at Olympia December II,
1902, to commemorate the semi-centennial anniversary of Olympia Lodge
No. 1, and the first introduction of Masonry into the jurisdiction, with its
two days of speechmaking and banqueting. Grand Master John Arthur
had set the pace, and all that followed was so beguiling that it would get
itself read while time's unnoted flight went on.

The anniversary was celebrated in the very hall in which the grand
lodge was organized (in the Masonic Temple, a picture of which em-
bellishes the volume) and on the same carpet trod by the pioneers, the
convention which organized it being presided over by the Rev. Charles
Byles, with Thomas Milburne Reed as secretary.

"Tom" Reed, past grand master and grand secretary, the ideal office,
the ideal man, the ideal Mason, and the ideal gentleman, who installed the
first grand master (Thornton F. McElroy) and was in turn installed by
him as the first grand secretary, was the central figure of the celebration,
around whom clustered the eminent living and the shadowy forms of
those whose passing had left him, with William Lyle (who was present)
and two others the only survivors of those present when the grand lodge
was formed.

Of the two major surprises encountered by the "Nestor of Masonry
in Washington," the first was when immediately upon the opening he was
escorted to the grand east, where he was felicitously presented by the rep-
resentative of Illinois, Past Grand Master Louis Ziegler, and received
with the grand honors. The second was when, on motion of Brother
Ziegler, the following was adopted :

"Whereas, Bro. T. M. Reed has, for more than fifty years, devoted
his best energies to the interest of our beloved fraternity, and for more
than forty years has served this grand lodge as its grand secretary, with
most consummate skill and fidelity, and that at a time when the grand
lodge was not able properly to compensate his valuable services ; and

"Whereas, He repeatedly declined an increase of salary because he
thought the grand lodge was not able, or in a position, to pay more than
it was paying; therefore, be it

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"Resolved, That the sum of one thousand dollars be paid to Bro. T. M.
Reed, in slight recognition of his valuable services to the craft in this
jurisdiction."

The speeches were of a high average order, the climax being reached
in the response of Past Grand Master Upton to the topic, "The History
of Masonry in Washington," which proved to be not a history, but reflec-
tion suggested by a contemplation of the history, resolving themselves into
an oration, cultured, profound, and uplifting. The charm of Tom Reed's
personal reminiscences ; the wit and humor generated where men unbend
in absolutely trusting good fellowship, sandwiched with the more solid
features of the occasion, and all suffused with the tendernes of retrospec-
tion, combined to make it an event long to be remembered with peculiar
pleasure by the participants.

A portrait of John Arthur is set over against the proceedings of the
annual communication, at which there were present fourteen past grand
masters and the representatives of thirty-two jurisdictions, Louis Ziegler,
the ambassador from Illinois, appearing in the dual role.

The grand master announced the death of the grand marshal, Jacob
Weatherwax, aged sixty-two and of James Rudolph Hayden, past grand
master, aged sixty-five. Brother Weatherwax was a past grand com-
mander of the Templars of Washington, and was at the head of the
Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons at the time of his death. Says the
grand master :

He was a soldier of the Union ; a scholar ; a poet ; an orator ; the
most lovable and charming of companions. He prized this grand lodge
and he longed to become more and more intimately associated and con-
nected with it. In his death we have lost an exemplary and most estimable
character.

And of Brother Hayden :

He was, like Brother Weatherwax, a volunteer soldier of the Union
army in the Civil War; and like him, too, he had taken an active part in
some of the concordant orders, and had long been sovereign inspector-
general of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite for Washington, con-
stituting him an active member of the supreme council of that Rite for
the southern jurisdiction. To this office he devoted since 1882 all his Ma-
sonic zeal and activity. With the exception of his attendance upon the
annual communications of the grand lodge, interrupted in recent years by
business exactions, he took no part in Ancient Craft Masonry. September
4, 1874, he was elected grand master of Washington, which office he filled
for one year ; and Masonic tradition informs us that he was a sensible,
judicious and popular grand master.

In the case of liquor sellers, members of lodges who had embarked in
the business since its outlawry by the grand lodge, he had recommended
that they be induced to dimit rather than be forced out, excellent advice
when we reflect upon the generally unfavorable effect of a trial upon the
lodge.

316 APPENDIX — PART I.

He had the assistance of President Roosevelt in laying the corner-
stone of the new Masonic temple at Seattle, May 22, 1903, of which event
he says :

The address of President Roosevelt was delivered at the end of a day
of strenuous speechmaking, and was necessarily brief; but the earnestness
of its manner made a deep impression on the vast multitude who listened
to him. He said :

''Brothers, I shall say but a few words. It has been a great pleasure
to me to be here at the laying of this corner-stone. I trust that the build-
ing erected thereon will be dedicated in deed as well as in name to friend-
ship and virtue and all the purposes which we hold dear. I trust that the
men here will so conduct themselves that the principles we profess will be
a real and vitalizing influence in our own lives, in our relations with one
another and with the outside world."

The president assisted me in spreading* the cement, and his labors were
rewarded by the presentation to him of a magnificent trowel, which he
accepted with every demonstration of pleasure.

Twelve decisions were reported, we copy in part :

1. At a stated communication of Lodge No. 55, the senior warden and
junior warden being present, the S. W. requested a past master to pre-
side; the P. M. did so throughout the communication; a brother insisted
that this was not proper unless the S. W. also sat in the east, and that
he (the S. W.) should also be recorded as W. M. pro tern, and sign the
minutes as such. On the return of the worshipful master the matter was
referred to him and he ruled that it was legal for the S. W. to request the
P. M. so to preside and it was also legal for the S. W. to remain in the
west and to discharge his duties in that station; that the P. M. was W.
M. pro ton. during that communication and should be so recorded and
also so sign the minutes ; that it was not necessary for the S. W. to sit in
the east by the side of the P. M. whom he had requested to govern his
lodge.

I upheld the ruling of the worshipful master.

3. A full vote is not necessary on business matters outside of peti-
tions. It is imperative only in balloting on a petition and on a Masonic
trial.

4. Two lodges are located on the same harbor on Puget Sound ; one
of them, being right at the navy yard, claimed that it had exclusive juris-
diction over applicants on board the U. S. S. "Wisconsin" then in the
harbor, and that the other lodge had no right to receive a petition from
any of them.

Claim rejected; held that the lodges had equal rights in the matter
in regard to seamen, the question of residence being immaterial in their
case.

5. A petitioner reached the age of twenty-one on September 16, 1902;
he desired to be made a Mason on that day.

Held that his petition could not be received until he was twenty-one
years old.

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6. Petition cannot be received from a man owning a controlling inter-
est in an incorporated liquor company, notwithstanding that he takes no
part in the retailing of liquor.

7. Petition cannot be received from a peripatetic photographer who
has no settled abode in the state, but moves from one town to another in
the pursuit of his business.

8. A lodge cannot legally enact a by-law giving the last past master
(instead of the master) the right to represent the lodge at the annual
communication of the grand lodge.

11. A lodge cannot, by increasing its dues, require additional dues
from a member during the period covered by his receipt for dues which
were paid by him according to the by-law as it stood when he made the
payment and accepted as in full for a given period. A by-law changing
the amount of dues can have only a prospective effect.

All these would be good law in Illinois except Nos. 4 and 6. We have no
law separating either mariners, those in the United States service, or those
interested in the liquor business — from the common mass of residents. He
also decided that the loss of left thumb, two little fingers of right hand
or the right foot entailed ineligibilty to petition for the degrees. With
lawyer-like prudence he refrained from deciding as to the left foot, as
that question was not before him.

In our notice of Washington in 1902 we reprinted two resolutions in-
troduced by Past Grand Master Chadwick, the first setting forth that in
1900 the grand lodge had authorized an exchange of representatives with
the Grand Orient of Belgium, and referring to the relations of the grand
orient with the Grand Orient of France as a reason for a second, the fol-
lowing resolution :

Resok'cd, That this grand lodge return the commission heretofore is-
sued by the Grand Orient of Belgium, appointing a representative near
this grand lodge, and recall the commission warranting the appointment of
a representative near that grand orient.

Their consideration was postponed for a year. Referring to and dis-
cussing the matter, Grand Master Arthur said the author of the resolu-
tion was laboring under a wrong impression when he drafted them, as
the grand lodge had not received from the grand orient any commission
appointing a grand representative near the Grand Lodge of Washington,
nor had the latter transmitted to the Grand Orient of Belgium any com-
mission warranting the appointment of a grand representative near that
grand orient. Premising, however, that any proposition urged by so able
and distinguished a brother as Past Grand Master Chadwick, fresh from
service as their committee on corespondence, must claim their closest at-
tention, he says :

The respectability of the source of this proposal would not, however,
warrant an act inherently unjust to a sister grand body and also self-
stultifying on our part. To tender fraternal greetings to a grand lodge

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(me year, and withdraw them two or three years later, not because of any-
thing which had happened in the interval but on a ground which had for
twenty years existed and been mentioned in familiar Masonic books, would
be a serious thing to do — a grave and uncalled-for affront to a grand body
of brother Masons; besides being an act of gratuitous self-abasement on
the part of the grand lodge doing it.

If we fall into the habit of adopting resolutions one year and repealing
or repudiating them the next, it will soon matter little to the Masonic world
what we say or unsay, or what grand bodies of Masonry may be in favor
with us one year or in disfavor soon after. "Unstable as water, thou shalt
not excel." We shall presently bear to other grand lodges the sort of
relation which the storm-tossed republics of South and Central America
bear to the orderly and permanent governments of the civilized world.

He proceeds to discuss at length the difference between the two dis-
tinct kinds of Freemasonry which he says exist in Europe. This we have
no time to follow, nor have we time even to ask questions. The argument
was strongly ■ adverse to the resolutions. The committee on segregation
and reference of the address recommended that all action on the subject
be indefinitely postponed, and this was concurred in.

Clinton A. Snowden, grand orator — who won his spurs at the semi-
centennial— delivered an interesting address from the well-grounded thesis
that Masonry is a development, not an invention. It is complimentary
that having got a taste of oratory they wanted more, and later in the ses-
sion we found the following minute :

At the request of the M. W. grand master, Rev. Bro. M. A. Matthews,
grand chaplain pro tempore, extemporaneously delivered before the grand
lodge a most brilliant and edifying address on Masonry and its inspira-
tions. The address was received with enthusiastic applause, and the speaker
was thanked by a rising vote of the grand lodge.

Nine lodges were chartered — one of them at Douglas, Alaska — and
one continued under dispensation.

Propositions to turn over the unexpended balance of the special grand
charity fund to the general fund ; to remove the grand lodge library from
Olympia to Seattle, and to raise the grand secretary's salary to $1,800, all
failed, but $300 was appropriated to the grand secretary for extra services
and expenses for the semi-centennial celebration at Olympia.

Charles Duncan Atkins, of Tacoma, was elected grand master;
Thomas Milburne Reed, Olympia, re-lected grand secretary.

The report on correspondence (196 pp.) is once more by Past Grand
Master William H. Upton, whom we welcome back to the Round Table
with the greatest possible pleasure. There will be no stagnation where
he sits.

It were impossible, had we the ability to do so in all its aspects, to do
justice to this splendid report in the time left to us. His notice of Illinois

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is of our proceedings of 1902. Referring to the rulings of Grand Master
Moulton, he quotes the only one which seems to him of sufficient im-
portance to report — that in reference to calling from labor to refresh-
ment, and thinks the grand lodge did right in adopting the modification
of it by the committee. Of another, he says :

The grand master gave some excellent reasons for advising a declara-
tion that the tyler's right to vote is "neither compulsory nor necessary;"
and his advice was followed. He gave just as good reasons for changing
their law so that any one of several lodges having concurrent jurisdiction
might grant a waiver for all ; but the grand lodge thought otherwise, and
a resident of Chicago must still get a waiver from sixty-eight lodges before
he can take the degrees elsewhere.

He must have read carelessly. The committee's adverse report thereon
was stricken out and the decision substituted therefor. Referring to the
Gatterdam case, he says :

He also reported the Gatterdam case, and was reversed, as we men-
tion under Wisconsin. A curious proceeding then occurred :

"Bro. Edward Cook, past M. W. grand master *

* moved that Bro. A. J. Gatterdam be expelled from all the rights

and privileges of Masonry. The M. W. grand master ruled that sum-
mary proceedings before the M. W. grand lodge were in order. Evidence
being produced that the brother had pleaded guilty to the charge *

* * [he was] expelled."

We believe the grand master's ruling to have been wrong. What fol-
lowed was certainly a conviction without a trial — to say nothing of two
punishments for one offence. The evidence against the accused — we beg
pardon for there was no accusation pending — was not conclusive ; for a
confession is always open to explanatoin. In short, half a dozen funda-
mental rules of law and natural justice were violated. The only question
in our mind in such a case is whether the "conviction" is absolutely void,
for want of jurisdiction, or only voidable. Still the great principle, that
a grand master cannot order a lodge to expel a man, was vindicated ; and
that is most satisfactory.

It will be remembered that Brother Wait, of New Hampshire, vig-
orously assailed the same action. We beg to refer Brother Upton to that
title for our comments. He touches briefly, but observantly, the business
of the session; notes the reception of their past grand master and our
Washington representative, Louts Ziegler, and his felicitous reply; and
of the further postponement of our special report on correspondence, says :

Past Grand Master John Corson Smith obtained leave to print in the
proceedings the speech he had made in 1900 in favor of recognizing the
National Grand Lodge of Egypt, and Bro. Joseph Robbins had leave to
print so much of his report as related to that subject. Both are able pa-
pers, and well nigh unanswerable if we concede the premises of their re-
spective authors. If legitimacy of origin is to be considered, and is to be
regarded as essential, Egypt has little claim to be regarded. If questions
of origin are to be disregarded, we think few weighty objections _ to the
recognition of Egypt can be found. Should Brother Robbins ultimately
be overruled, it will not prove that he was in error. It will indicate but

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two things: First, that majorities rule and the vote of the most ignorant
cancels the vote of the wisest; and, second, that there is a, temporary or
permanent, flow of sentiment in favor of a less strict rule than that which
Brother Rohbins and the more conservative grand lodges have been ad-
vocating.

Notwithstanding the adoption of our report last year, we have found
occasion to discuss the Egyptian phase of it in this report — under Ala-
bama and elsewhere — and we direct his attention thereto for more definite
information concerning it than we had before been able to print.

Turning to our notice of his grand lodge, he quotes our comments
on some of Grand Master Ken nan's decisions in the course of which we
remarked :

But all the jurisdiction a lodge has over an unelect profane, is that
he may say that he shall not apply anywhere else for the degrees. The
lodge never touches him until he acts.

Reflecting, he says :

Indeed, we do not concede that a lodge has as much jurisdiction over
an unelect profane as Brother Robbins does. We should say, "A lodge
has no jurisdiction over an unelect profane except, in some cases, to re-
ceive and act upon his petition/'

Both statements seem to us about equally true. We are willing to
give them both up and say that the lodge has no jurisdiction over the
unelect profance, within its territory, but it has up its sleeve jurisdiction
over the question whether he shall be Mason or not if he elects to try.

Brother Upton does us the honor to transfer some nine pages of our
report to his own, largely relating to the out-cropping in the Grand
Lodge of Idaho of the Massachusetts departure of twenty years before
and to the report of the Massachusetts committee recommending the de-
nial of the petition of thirty-two past masters for the repeal of sections 21
and 22, whose enactment constituted that departure. We could copy
twice that number of his pages with great profit to our readers had we the
time and space. We must content ourselves with one or two. In the fol-
lowing he refers to Brother Wright, of Florida :

But when he attacks the position taken by Brother Jenks of Wiscon-
sin— which we quote more fully under that head — to the effect that the
Supreme Council of the Southern Jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite has
no power to charter craft lodges ; and says, "In this Brother Jenks is
certainly mistaken," he is not on such safe ground. To sustain his asser-
tion, he quotes a statement made by the present grand commander of the
A. and A. S. Rite, S. J., to the effect that "it appears" that Etienne Morin,
besides his patent authorizing him to confer the degrees of the Rite" of
Perfection, "was given authority" by the Grand Lodge of France "to estab-
lish a symbolic lodge in America," "the authority from the grand lodge
making him a deputy grand master for America." Brother Wright then
quotes a statement of J. H. Drummond's that the Council of the Emperors
of the East and West had jurisdiction over the three degrees, and that it
was this body which commissioned Morin in 1761 ; and then adds:

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"We thus learn that Morin was commissioned as deputy grand master
for America, with poiver to establish symbolic lodges. * *

We learn from Scottish Rite sources that they [evidently meaning Scottish
Rite bodies] did receive the right and authority to establish lodges, and
have always exercised that power in unoccupied territory."

They have "exercised" their alleged right in occupied territory also.
We think Brother Jenks will have little difficulty in disposing of Brother
Wright's argument, if he considers the game worth the candle, and will
say but little ourselves. In the first place, the writers whom Brother
Wright mentions are not authority. They merely state the opinions they
have drawn from the authorities. Albert Pike, who certainly knew as
much about Scottish Rite history as any man that ever lived, if memory
serves us not only reached a conclusion opposite to that of Brother
Wright but put his conclusion into the form of an official decision. In
the second place, the opinions of Brothers Richardson and Drummond
quoted by Brother Wright do not establish the latter's conclusion. Pass-
ing the old question whether Morin's patent was a forgery, so far as the
grand lodge part of it was concerned ; and the question whether those who
are said to have signed it on behalf of the grand lodge had any authority
to bind that body; and the question whether that grand lodge was at that
time a legitimate body; and several other questions which have been much
discussed in that connection, the simple facts remain that Morin did not
establish a lodge in South Carolina, and that the brethren who created
the Scottish Rite, 4 to S3 degrees, at Charleston, S. C, in 1801, did not
receive the three degrees of Ancient Craft Masonry from or through
Morin, directly or indirectly. Had they done so, we should now have the
queer spectacle of Brother Wright — a perfervid admirer of Past Grand
Master Chadwick, who claimed that the only objection to Negro Masonry
was that it existed in invasion of jurisdiction — tracing the power of the
Scottish Rite over the craft degrees to men who received those degrees
in iirc'asion of the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of South Carolina!
But they did not so receive them. They received them in lodges under the
jurisdiction of that grand lodge; and they received no more control over
those degrees, and no more right to create lodges, than Brother Wright
and ourselves have — -and could impart no more authority to the Scottish
Rite. Moreover, that Rite is not identical with or a successor to the
Council of the Emperors of the East and West. It took posession— just
as several other Rites have done with equal right — of the degrees pos-
sessed, in common with some other organizations, by the "Emperors" —
the degrees 4 to 25 of the Rite of Perfection ; added eight other degrees,
invented at the time or borrowed from the immense stock of such that was
then the common property of any degree monger in Europe who chose to
make use of them ; and became a new Rite, distinct from any other. The
Council of the Emperors went its way, unchanged by what had occurred.
The Scottish Rite had usurped concurrent jurisdiction over its high de-
grees, but was not, and did not claim to be, identical with it.

We reproduce the following not only for its historical interest, but
because it states so clearly the position we have so long taken, on the
floor of our grand lodge and in these reports. He is speaking of Kansas :

He ran up against the liquor-dealer question, owing to the fact that
some brethren held that their old regulation on the subject, enacted in
prohibition times, was aimed at unlawful selling and was no longer in
force against liquor-dealers licensed by the state. Brother Dewey took the
opposite view, and the grand lodge sustained him. Washington is not in
a position to cast a stone at such a regulation in Kansas, but we may

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smile at the way the grand master added one more to the list of ineffect-
ual attempts to escape from the fact that such legislation is, in derogation of
the immemorial rights of lodges and Masons. He said:

"This provision about the unfitness for Masonry of the man who sells
intoxicating liquors as a beverage is not an innovation in the body of
Masonry. M. W. James Carnell, Grand Master of Florida, calls attention
to the fact that there has recently been found an old parchment endorsed
'Old Rules of the Grand Lodge of York,' bearing date A. L. 5725, the fif-
teenth article of which reads as follows :

" 'No more persons shall be admitted as brothers of this society that
shall keep a public house.' "

This "old parchment," "recently found," was printed by Brother
Hughan more than thirty years ago in one of the best known of his books,
and was reprinted in our Masonic Code of Washigton in 1897. So much
for its novelty. The manuscript is not dated. Upon it is an endorsement
in another hand reading, "Old Rules of the Grand Lodge at York" — not
"of York" — "1725, No. 8." The "No. 8" is because the M.S. was No. 8
on, an inventory of articles formerly belonging to the Old Lodge at York,
taken many years after 1725 ; and the endorsement was probably placed
there at the time the inventory was taken, and is therefore of little au-
thority. But the rules themselves plainly show that they were — not grand
lodge regulations, but the private by-laws of one particular lodge. That
lodge was the "Old Lodge at York," which, after it heard that a "grand"
lodge had been formed in London, began to affect the title of ."grand
lodge." It was not a grand lodge — at least in 1725 — and had no constitu-
ent or "subordinate" lodges. It was simply a lodge ; and these rules are
signed by "Ed. Bell, Master," and 87 members of the lodge. Another one
of the rules reads :

"4. The bowl shall be filled at the monthly lodges with punch once,
ale, bread, cheese, and tobacco in common," etc.

Nobody claims that for a lodge to refuse to elect a liquor-dealer, or
any liquor-dealer, is "an innovation in the body of Masonry." That is
just what the Old Lodge at York did. It is just what any lodge has a
right to do. There are numerous teetotal lodges in England, and there is
no reason why there should not be in Kansas or in Washington. But it
would have been considered insanity for the Lodge at the Goose and Grid-
iron, London, to have made by-laws for the lodge at York. It is im-
proper enough, for the same reason, for the grand lodge — that is, several
lodges sitting together, by their representatives, with a grand master at
their head — to make a by-law for a particular lodge; but, as to the matter
under consideration, what we do claim to be an innovation on the body
of Masonry and an infraction of landmarks is to undertake to add to or
subtract from the qualifications of a candidate as fixed by the Ancient
Landmarks, or take from the members of a particular lodge the exclu-
sive right, vested in them by the landmarks, to determine whether a can-
didate possesed of those qualifications shall be made a Mason.

Of the California decision that one who has sat with a man in a
Royal Arch Chapter or a commandery is entitled to vouch for him in a
lodge, he says it "is one of those relaxations of the primary obligation to
require 'lawful information,' for which there is no other excuse than that
a grand lodge cannot be called to account for its acts," and the report is
full of such bits of wit and wisdom. To crown all it has a good topical
index.

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WEST VIRGINIA, 1903.

39th Annual . Wheeling. November ii.

Eleven past grand masters were present, among them H. R. Howard,
representative of Illinois, which was one of the thirty-two jurisdictions
found to be represented when the round-up of the diplomatic corps oc-
curred, immediately after the opening. The corps, including the grand
master, was welcomed to seats in the grand lodge by the deputy grand
master, whose portrait, as grand master, adds interest to the volume.

The grand master (Eli M. Turner) explained that the reason the
grand lodge did not meet at Clarksburg, as voted last year, was that the
new hotel was not yet ready for occupancy, without which the accommo-
dations would be inadequate ; hence his order calling the body together at
Wheeling.

He announced the death at an advanced age of William H. Freeman,
past senior grand warden, from whose hands the grand master had re-
ceived the degrees nearly thirty years ago.

Reminding the brethren that in growth, quality was more important
than quantity, he says :

From the reports received it is shown that the craft is in a flourishing
condition, that much work is being done and the proficiency of the officers
in the ritual is increasing. I fear, however, that in our desire to increase
our number, we sometimes lose sight of the fact that in Masonry quantity
is not as important as quality. The increasing immigration to this state
should make the brethren of the lodges doubly careful in scanning the
material offered for the Masonic degrees ; and I have recommended in
several instances, in my correspondences with subordinate lodges, the ap-
pointment of investigating committees, which shall carefully look into the
history and character of all applicants for degrees, in order that none ex-
cept those who are worthy and well qualified may enter. I believe it would
be greatly for the benefit of the craft if this were made obligatory upon
the lodges by the action of this grand body. A large number of the lodges
have such committees already.

We are left in doubt whether this means to make the committee of
inquiry a standing committee, to whom all petitions are to be referred, or
to create a standing committee to suppliment the work of the usual tem-
porary committee.

Among the dispensations reported was one authorizing a lodge to ap-
pear in public with Masonic clothing and attend divine service on St. John
the Evangelist's Day. One refusal was for a lodge to turn out with the
Knights Templar to attend a funeral. "It is well settled," he says, "that a

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blue lodge cannot turn out as a lodge at a funeral, unless the services are
in charge of the lodge." Where it is not so settled it should be. Seventeen
decisions are reported, eight of which we copy :

2. An applicant whose left arm is three inches shorter than the right
four inches less in circumference, and whose left hand cannot be turned
palm upwards on a level with the waist, is unable to comply with the ritual
and must be rejected.

3. The secretary of Naomi Lodge No. 104 wrote me for information as
to whether a dimitted Mason has a legal right to lecture candidates.

This depends upon the status of the dimitted Mason. If not dimitted
longer than one year, he still enjoys the rights of a Mason, although non-
affiliated, and can therefore lecture a candidate. If dimitted longer than
one year without having become affiliated, or without having made, within
the year, application for affiliation with some lodge, he is under edict 4 of
the grand lodge, deprived of pecuniary aid, the right to visit, Masonic
burial or participation in any Masonic procession, as long as his non-affil-
iation continues. This being true, he would not have the right to lecture a
candidate, as he is practically in the same situation as a suspended or ex-
pelled Mason, except that he can resume his affiliation by making applica-
tion to a lodge and being accepted.

5. Illegitimacy is not a bar to Masonry.

6. A man having lost the two middle fingers of his right hand, includ-
ing the knuckle joint, is ineligible, not being able to fully comply with the
ritual.

7. Where a committee appointed in a Masonic trial, under section 20
of the code, refuses to act, or refuses to report to the lodge, after reason-
able time has been given to hear the evidence, the lodge should discharge
the committee and appoint a new one, or proceed to hear the case in open
lodge. A Mason has no right to use his position as a member of such com-
.1111166 either to delay the trial or prevent it from being concluded.

11. W. R. Snodgrass, W. B. Snodgrass, John L. Howard and Arthur
L. Chambers, residing at Smithfield, within the jurisdiction of Manning-
ton Lodge No. 31, petitioned and were initiated, passed and raised in Wet-
zel Lodge No. 39, at New Martinsville. These persons were irregularly
made Masons, and have no Masonic standing. They must apply to Man-
nington Lodge No. 31, and receive the degrees in that lodge, or in some
other at its request.

12. Roy G. Barrick, who applied to Wetzel lodge No. 39. has lost the
first joint of the middle finger of the right hand and the third finger is
slightly crooked toward the second finger. He is eligible to receive the
degrees, being able to comply with the ritual.

15. Oliver A. Gunst petitioned Wetzel Lodge No. 39, having lost the
first joint of the fore finger of the right hand, and the whole of the second
finger, except the knuckle joint.

Held : That he is eligible to receive the degrees.

16. Two brethren, after being passed to the degree of Fellow Craft
had some business difficulties with two Master Masons, members of the

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lodge, who filed a protest with the master against their further advance-
ment, and the question is presented whether this protest is sufficient to stop
them.

Held: After a candidate has been initiated he cannot be stopped by a
protest, except for the purpose of having charges brought against him in
the manner prescribed by law, and no matters of business difference
among brethren can be inquired into in a Masonic lidge.

Numbers 2, 6, 12, and 15 should be read together; they reflect a suffi-
ciently conservative, common-sense interpretation of the ancient law. In
No. 3 an unwarrantable local regulation making a Mason's standing contin-
gent upon the length of time he has held his dimit, compels the grand mas-
ter to say : "This depends" — So long as a Mason has such standing that
another Mason is permitted to converse with him Masonically, he may as a
matter of right tell any other Mason of equal standing everything he knows
about Masonry. We do not question the correctness of No. 5, and No. 7
we regard as strong sense and good law. No. 11 having been approved —
although the jurisprudence committee in passing upon it favorably reserve
the right to say that they think the grand master has the prerogative to heal
irregularly made Masons, it then became true in law that the brethren re-
ferred to had no Masonic standing, but not true in fact. Having been made
Masons in a regular lodge lowfully at labor (although for the moment wit-
tingly or unwittingly unlawfully engaged), their Masonic standing should
not have been questioned. They were not attainted by the irregularities
of the lodge.

Two new lodges were chartered ; report of progress was made by the
committee on index-digest, a work which will be of great value when com-
pleted ; a copy of the American Tyler's "Year Book" was ordered to be
purchased for each lodge ; a subscription made to the fund for the erec-
tion of a monument to the late grand tiler, Tiomothy W. Bliss; an oil por-
trait of the retiring grand master was ordered for the grand lodge gallery;
report was had of the presentation of the past grand master's jewels or-
dered last year for the M.W. Brethren Robert White, Keppart D. Walker,
George W. Atkinson and Peyton R. Harrison, the report including the
speeches — full of interest — made when they were presented; an order was
given for a jewel uniform in design with the others, for each living past
grand master not thus decorated ; and Clarksburg was selected as the next
place of meeting.

George Hatch, of Wheeling, was elected grand master; George W.
Atkinson, Charleston, re-elected grand secretary.

The very elaborate report on correspondence (318 pp.) is from the
customary hand of the grand secretary, Past Grand Master Atkinson,
reviews the proceedings of sixty-four grand bodies, including Illinois for
1903. He summarizes the address of Grand Master Moulton, quoting

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from his commendation of the district deputy grand masters; notices the
portraits of deceased past grand masters scattered through the volume, who
presided over the craft "in the long gone hy" and in their day were num-
bered with the distinguished men of the state, and copies the concluding
words of the oration of Brother McFatrich. Quite inadvertently, we pre-
sume, he says a "Lodge of Sorrow" was held on the second day of the ses-
sion. Illinois does not indulge in such exotics as lodges of sorrow ; the
simple memorial service befitting plain Ancient Craft Masonry affords
adequate opportunity for appreciative and loving tribute to her honored
and lamented dead.

In his kind notice our report he thus refers to some matters therein
(the status of the newly raised brother is, we may add, the same as in
Illinois) :

He devotes four pages to West Virginia's minutes of 1902. He gives
an intelligent, clear-cut synopsis of our Jacob-like wrestle on the Masonic
Home matter, and added that "a brother (George H. Alderson) with a
business head on him, settled the question for the grand lodge by moving a
call of the lodges, which revealed the fact that there was no pressing need
for a Home ." He copied the decisions rendered by the committee on Juris-
prudence, with the single remark that West Virginia follows Virginia by
holding that a candidate when raised, stands as a non-affiliate, and can
join any lodge he desires or elects. This has been our custom since the
organization of our grand lodge in 1863. Nevertheless, I may add that I
never heard of a brother choosing any other lodge than the one that made
him a Mason. It is, therefore, as the theologians would say, "a mere form,
without spirit or power."

He does us the honor to transfer a couple of pages of our report to
his own, partly relating to Mexican Masonry, and partly to the relation of
the orphan to institutional charity, of which latter subject he says :

If Brother Robbins will address a letter to the Rev. H. H. Hart, LL.D.,
general superintendant of the Illinois Children's Home Society at Chi-
cago, he will secure the proffer of that charitable man to find comfortable
individual homes for all of the orphans of Masons under 12 years of age,
for about as much money per capita, all told, as it will cost each year to
mass them together in a Masonic Home. This experiment is worth trying
Dr. Hart represents a society whose plan is to first find helpless children,
and then find proper homes for them in childless families, where they will,
in most cases, be adopted as their own offspring. This is the natural plan,
and it is working successfully in twenty-five states of the Union. Illinois
being one of the twenty-five. We have such a society in West Virginia,
and during seven years of its workings about 500 helpless orphans have
been placed in good, comfortable homes, where they will be brought up
with all of the advantages of genuine home-life, which cannot be accorded
to them in an orphan asylum, however well they may be cared for.

Under Vermont he speaks more at length on the same subject:

Brother Perkins does not agree with my suggestion that it is better to
provide homes in individual families for the orphan children of Masons,
instead of bringing them up in Masonic Homes, and cites the homes in

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Kentucky, California, New York and other states, as proof of the incorrect-
ness of my position. I very much fear that my esteemed brother has not
given much careful thought to this subject. If he will avail himself of the
reports of the twenty-five states of the Union, which have organized
within their borders children's home societies, not for the purpose of
gathering helpless, hopeless, hapless children together within their walls
and provide them with food, raiment and teachers, but to find individual
homes for them wherein they can be brought up with all of their attend-
ant advantages, and see how nicely the plan works, he will then, I am sure,
agree that Brother Atkinson knows something definite whereof he speaks.

It is the natural method of caring for the dependent orphans of a state,
and it is a wonder to my mind that it is only within the past few years that
it has been generally introduced. Carefully prepared statistics show that
the average in all of the states is that one family out of every ten is child-
less, and where it is made the business of a charitable society to find these
barren families, and then find the particular sort of a child that each one
wants, and take the little on to that home, it simply works like a charm.
In fact, it is so easily, cheaply and satisfactorily done in almose every in-
stance, that those who have looken into its workings wonder, as I myself
have done, why this system has not been in use all over the civilized world
for generations past.

I know M. W. Brother Perkins will excuse me for stating that seven
years ago last May a few of us organized the kind of a society in West
Virginia of which I have endeavored to describe, and I was chosen its first
president, and still hold that position, and in that short period we have
placed about five hundred children in good Christian homes, and in only a
few instances have we found it necessary to replace any of that large num-
ber. The society retains supervision over the children, and sees to it that
they are properly educated and cared for, and in most cases they are legally
adopted into the families where we placed them. It costs about $5,000 a
year to carry on our society, and a large part of this expense is paid by
the families that secure the children from us.

Our society will take the sons and daughters of all deceased West
Virginia Masons, under twelve years of age, whose relatives are unable to
provide for them, and will place them into well-to-do homes, at what it
actually costs to find suitable places for them, and convey them thither.
I do not recall a single case that the cost has been above $50. Now, if I
am correct in my statements, and I speak from nearly eight years of actual
experience, would it not be cheaper, and in every conceivable respect better
for the Masons of West Virginia to turn over their dependent orphans to
our society and pay even the maximum of $50 per capita, than to build
and maintain a Masonic Home and mass them together therein, when they
will grow up without any knowledge of a real home or real home life?
I ask my good Brother Perkins to answer this plain, blunt question before
he reaches the conclusion that the succesful conducting of Masonic Homes
in Kentucky and other states, prove that I am wrong in the position I have
taken in regard to this important Masonic problem. If he. will examine
the reports of the grand lodges that are maintaining homes, he will find
that it costs more than $50 a year for each inmate, young or old, while the
plan I suggest will not cost, all told, over $50. This, however, is only the
economic view of it, and it is the most insignificant part of it, when, com-
pared with other advantages given to the child by the plan I am suggesting.
No one will claim that it is wise to mass children together in a home and

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keep them there during the moulding or formation period, unless it is an
absolute necessity so to do in order that they may be supported and edu-
cated. If they can be brought up in properly selected individual homes, it
is far better in every respect.

But Brother Perkins may ask: "What are you going to do with aged
Masons and their wives, who are unable to support themselves?" My an-
swer is, care for them by placing them in private old men's and old
women's homes, which are found in perhaps every state in the Union, pro-
vided their needs are such as require them to be sent to such institutions.
They can be boarded at much less expense in such institutions than they
can be kept in a Masonic Home, unless, perhaps, in such states as New
York, Illinois and a few more of the more populous states, where there
are a large number of indigent Masons to provide for. Moreover, it is a
very common thing among lodges to contribute only a partial support to
their needy brethren, say $50 to $100 each, which, with what they have, ren-
ders them comfortable. I maintain that this is not only very much
cheaper, but is very much more satisfactory in most cases to the needy
brothers themselves, than to send them into the seclusion of an old peo-
ple's charity home, however well it may be conducted.

We had noted other passages in his report for transfer to our pages,
but we have already drawn too heavily on our space.

WISCONSIN, 1904.

6oth Annual. Milwaukee. June 14.

Thirteen past grand masters were present, including Charles Cassius
Rogers, the representative of Illinois, one of the forty-five grand juris-
dictions whose envoys were in evidence.

The grand master (John Corscot) announced the death of Past
Grand Master Gabriel Bouck, in his seventy-sixth, and Past Grand Sec-
retary George E. Hoskinson in his sixty-seventh year. Autograph por-
traits face their simple, tasteful memorial tablets, and that of Brother
Bouck, whose impress has been on the jurisprudence of his grand lodge
for more than forty years, also appropriately makes the frontispiece of the
volume.

Brother Bouck was a many-sided man with striking abilities and pecu-
liarities. The stories rife in Wisconsin of the eccentricities, the masterful
common sense, the gruffness, the tenderness, and all the paradoxes of the
strong personality of "The Sage of Oshkosh" would fill a volume. Past
Grand Master Chapin, who presented a most appreciative memorial of him,
says :

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He was a man of strong intellectual powers, a just man with a tender
heart. His deeds of charity were numerous, his many acts of kindness and
deeds of charity were scattered all through his life.

He was a philosopher; was honest and faithful to his clients and
friends. He was a patriot, a great lawyer, a Master Mason, in all these
words imply.

Junior Grand Warden Telfer presented the memorial of Brother
Hoskinson, an ideal man and Mason. He was chairman of the committee
on correspondence in 1872, winning wide recognition by his report ; grand
secretary in 1873 and 1874. In 1876 he was appointed consul at Kingston,
Jamaica, and remained abroad twelve years, when he removed to Grand
Rapids, but visited the grand lodge one year ago to recall old friendships.

The grand master reported ten decisions, most of which follow :

1. Question: If a lodge grants permission, is there any objection to
the use of a lodge room by the Jews for their days of atonement and
prayer?

Answer : No.

2. Question : Has a brother a right to tell either the accused or ac-
cuser at a Masonic trial, how a brother voted.

Answer : No.

3. Question : It is permitted a lodge to allow the Order of the East-
ern Star, to fasten their Star carpet to the floor, and thus permitting the
Masonic altar to rest permanently thereon?

Answer : No.

4. Question : In the conferring of the Master Masons degree on
three candidates at one and the same communication, at what point in the
work may the three participate conjointly?

Answer : They must proceed separately, until the historical lecture
is delivered. After that they may proceed conjointly.

5. Question : Is it proper to notify lodge members through the mails
that balloting is to take place on the application of a person named in said
notice at a given time?

Answer : No.

6. Question : At a regular communication of a lodge, when the order
of balloting is reached and a certain petition for degrees comes up in the
natural order of business, the Master announces that "for good and suffi-
cient reasons best known to myself, I wish the petition to lay on the table
until I see fit to spread ballot on same:" after conferring the M. M. degree,
a number of the brethren had left the lodge room, the ballot was spread,
and the candidate elected. Question : Was the action of the master illegal,
and the intiation of the candidate so elected irregular and clandestine?

Answer : It was illegal for the master to ballot on the applicant at
any time other than at the time specified in the by-laws, at that or a subse-
quent meeting. The candidate being in no way responsible for the action
of the lodge, is an E. A. in good standing.

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7. A lodge doing work for another is entitled to the fee, unless there
is a previous contrary arrangement.

9. A memher of a lodge in good standing, though a saloon-keeper,
cannot by order of the W. M. be lawfully excluded from a Masonic fun-
eral procession.

10. The work and lectures of the three degrees, as given to the grand
lecturer by the custodian of the work, and by the grand lecturer to the
craft, is the work of this jurisdiction, and all interpolations, additions, em-
bellishments or deviations therefrom, are unauthorized and unmasonic.

Number one was disapproved as being in conflict with an edict which
provides * * * "nor permit its lodge room to be used for other
than Masonic purposes without permission from the grand lodge or grand
master." Apart from the local regulation one might have anticipated objec-
tion from some ritualistic pundit on the score of danger lest the lodge might
have been opened the night before on three the degrees and only closed on
two, and then there would be no knowing what might be unlawfully ob-
tained if profanes were permitted to enter. Nos. two and three were ap-
proved, and No. four after it had been delivered of the word "delivered"
and the word "commenced" inserted in its place. Of No. six the law com-
mittee say :

That decision numbered 6 be approved in so far as it holds that the
candidate is an Entered Apprentice in good standing, and disapproved so
far as it nolds that the action of the W. M. in delaying the balloting was
illegal. By the edicts of the grand lodge a master is invested with absolute
power in the government of his lodge. He may open and close his lodge at
pleasure, declare its business, and even deny admission to a member of his
lodge. But he is accountable to the grand lodge for any abuse of these
powers.

Should the master of a lodge delay the balloting, on a petition for the
degrees for the purpose of changing the result, he would be amenable to the
grand lodge for an abuse of his power.

Number seven ran up against an edict saying that the requesting lodge
is entitled to the fee, but both edict and decision agree that the matter
may be otherwise arranged between the lodges. Of number nine the com-
mittee say :

Decision numbered 9 is disapproved, as it is in conflict with the edict
declaring the powers of a master, which says a master may deny admission
to the lodge to a member thereof. As a Masonic funeral procession is the
lodge, the master has power to exclude any member therefrom, but to-
exclude a member on account of his business only would be an abuse of
the power.

This seems to us to shave the hypercritical pretty closely, although it
may have been well for the committee to call attention to the distinction
between tweedledum and tweedledee, or between the abuse and the unlaw-
ful use of power. Referring to number 5 we have nothing to guide us in

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determining whether it is based on a regulation or on their judgment. In
some jurisdictions the practice is very old of including the name of the
candidates on the "agenda" papers, whether anything else is placed there
or not, if their petitions are expected to come to ballot at that time. Of
course they are sent sealed. There is a possible chance that these notices
might fall into the hands of outside parties after opening (although it is
the recipient's duty to see that they do not) who might be smart enough, if
at some later period it turned out that any of the parties named "had not
joined the Masons," to put that and that together and "draw an inference."
But it does not seem that this chance is sufficient to outweigh the advan-
tage of having all the brethren know when petitions are to come up.

The question of holding a Masonic fair having been brought to the
attention of the grand master by a member of one of the lodges, he thus
expresses his views (and ours) :

If the conduct of the fair were on the order of the least objectionable
of church fairs, where articles were exhibited and afterwards sold to the
highest bidder, and where there was no lottery, gambling or other objec-
tionable features connected therewith, it might be permissible to give the
fair the sanction of the grand lodge; but if the chief attraction at such fair
is to be spectacular display of Masonic emblems and Masonic clothing, then
the brethren had far better maintain the .dignity of the craft and forego this
Cjuestionable method of raising funds, even for charitable purposes.

The jurisprudence committee, commending his dignified stand, say it
ill comports with the dignity of Free Masonry to make appeals to the out-
side world for assistance to carry on the work of the craft, whether such
appeals are made directly or indirectly; that as usually conducted they
afford opportunities for gift enterprises and lotteries, and report an edict
forbidding the holding of fairs, gift enterprises, or public entertainments
of any nature for gain by lodges or Masons, as Masons. This brings them
very closely in line with Illinois. Thirty years ago a provision was in-
serted in our code forbidding the giving of the aid or countenance of
Masonry, in organized or individual form, to any lottery or gift enterprise.
The Grand Lodge of Kentucky had long ago many years of experience
with the lottery business on a large scale and experienced no end of finan-
cial trouble therefrom, but we think the business was abandoned long be-
fore the moral sense of the community had placed the business under the
ban. (Speaking of edicts: does an edict in Wisconsin differ from a res-
olution in binding effect, or the duration of its effectiveness?)

In commending the excellence and value of the report on corre-
spondence of Past Grand Master Aldro Jenks, in the highest terms. It is
none too high when he speakes of its as "unexcelled"— the grand master
says :

In this connection, permit me to call attention to the amount of time,
labor and care spent in the work of review and preparation of this very
able contribution to the literature of Masonry, and to the fact of the

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meager compensation of $300.00 allowed Past Grand Master Jenks for his
work. It is unquestionably worth double the amount paid, and it is earn-
estly recommended that the compensation be made at least $600.00 for the
last year, and that in the future, payment for this service be made in the
months of December and June of the Masonic year for which the report
of the committee is made.

Later, the following was introduced by Past Grand Master Rogers,
and having achieved a favorable report from the committee on expendi-
tures, was adopted :

Whereas, Past Grand Master Aldro Jenks has for seven years
past held the responsible position of chairman of the committee on foreign
correspondence, and

Whereas, Because of the eminent abilities he has brought to the dis-
charge of this important trust, the jurisdiction of Wisconsin now occupies
one of the most enviable positions among the sister jurisdictions of this
and foreign countries ; therefore, be it

Resolved, That the compensation now paid him of three hundred dol-
lars per year for such services be raised to six hundred dollars, and that
such compensation of six hundred dollars be made to cover the fiscal year
ending with this communication of the grand lodge, and that the grand
secretary be, and he is hereby authorized, to draw a warrant in favor of
Bro. Aldro Jenks for six hundred dollars, and that hereafter the compen-
sation so fixed shall be payable to the chairman of the committee on foreign
correspondence in the months of June and December of each year.

Past Grand Master Littlejohn proposed an amendment to the con-
stitution making the six ranking officers and the three trustees of the
grand lodge the committee on charity ; and with it an edict defining the
powers and duties of the committee, of which the following is a feature :

It is the duty of the committee on charity, by personal effort and by
correspondence with the officers of lodges, to endeavor to find homes for
any destitute orphan children of Masonic parentage in this jurisdiction in
respectable families, willing to adopt, care for and educate them, and to
make all legal and needful regulations regarding such adoption.

It is the duty of the secretary of each lodge in this jurisdiction to re-
port to the committee on charity the names, condition and needs of any
destitute orphan children of Masonic parentage within the jurisdiction of
his lodge.

It is the duty of the worshipful master and secretary of any lodge in
this jurisdiction upon request of the committee on charity of the grand
lodge, to endeavor to find homes in respectable families for orphan children
said committee may have in charge.

At request of the committee on charity the grand master and grand
secretary shall draw orders on the grand treasurer, to be paid out of the
charity fund for the necessary expenses in carrying out the foregoing pro-
visions.

It was referred to the jurisprudence committee (Littlejohn chair-
man), but was not reported upon.

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The minutes record a demonstration of genuine old-fashioned Masonic
charity, when the hat was passed for contributions not to exceed twenty-
five cents each in aid of a needy brother. Ninety-four dollars were
"chipped in." This is a "Wisconsin Plan" that everybody can endorse.

It was ordered that $500.00 be set aside annually from the charity fund,
to be used by the grand master in his discretion, for charitable purposes.

Two new lodges were chartered ; telegraphic greetings were ex-
changed with the grand lodges of Iowa, South Dakota, Oregon and Wash-
ington; a jewel of his rank was presented to Past Grand Master Daniel
Mc. L. Miller, and the grand secretary was ordered to procure and present
one to the retiring grand master, in his home lodge, as soon as practicable.

David H. Wright, of Madison, was elected grand master; William
W. Perry, Milwaukee, re-elected grand secretary.

The report on correspondence (140 pp.) the seventh by its author, was
presented by Past Grand Master Aldro Jenks, and emphasizes afresh the
long established fact that a good thing may come out of Dodgeville. The
solid qualities of the report, its abality, its breadth of information and gen-
eral absence of misinformation, its grasp of the principles of Masonic law,
and its strong common sense, are only equalled by the purity and direct-
ness of its style.

The Illinois proceedings for 1903 receive full and careful notice. He
says :

We observe that the fees for a special dispensation to confer the En-
tered Apprentice degree in less than the statutory time is $20. If such a
fee were exacted in all cases, applications of this kind would be less
numerous than they are now. The objection to such a fee is that there is a
temptation to grant it on account of the fee rather than upon the merits of
the application.

Per contra the temptation don't come very frequently: "If seen too
oft, etc." He thinks the proposed beer picnic of the "Singing Section" on
which Grand Master Moulton put his heavy foot, would have justified
something more vigorous than a reprimand. The latter sufficed. Bro.
Moulton's military training had taught him not to waste ammunition.

Of the adverse report of this committee on the proposition to recog-
nize some fifteen hybrid bodies, he says :

Action thereon was deferred until 1902, and again until this communi-
cation, at which the report of the correspondence committee was sustained.
The impropriety of recognizing these alleged Masonic grand lodges is
yearly becoming more manifest. It is believed that they are all of Scottish
Rite parentage, and that the system practiced by them and the objects and
purposes of their being is as foreign to Blue lodge Masonry as is that of a
lodge of Odd Fellows. To a great extent these grand lodges are either
atheistical of agnostic, and instead of being sovereign and supreme, are

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controlled to a greater or less extent by supreme councils of the Scottish
Rite. Largely they are considered as a protest against the Catholic church
or as a convenient means of conducting political intrigues. How foreign
such institutions are to legitimate Masonry every York Rite Mason must
know.

Touching the grand master's prompt measures to meet the Pinnev in-
vasion, he calls attention to this fact:

It is well to note in this connection that this Pinney Grand Lodge of
Ohio hastened to accept the invitation extended through the Swiss Grand
Lodge Alpina to associate itself with the so-called "Universal Congress
of Freemasonry," and so secured quasi fraternal relationship with nearly
al! the grand lodges given in the above list, and to whom recognition was
denied by the Grand Lodge of Illinois.

And of a pending amendment (defeated for some now unaccountable
reason, when offered years ago by a brother who has since been one of
our wisest grand masters), he says:

It provides "That no lodge shall be named after any living person." A
similar provision exists in Wisconsin, and should exist everywhere, for
there is always a possibility that occasion may arise when the lodge and
grand lodge would find it necessary for the good name of Masonry to
change the name of such lodge. When a person has passed beyond the
p'l and his life record is closed, it can then be assured that a lodge may
safely be named after such person. We have known of instances, however,
although fortunately they are rare, where the portraits of grand masters
have been removed from the halls of the grand lodge because their conduct
had become an offense to Masonry. Hence the necessity for a regulation
prohibiting the naming of a lodge after any living person.

If this experience has not been exactly duplicated in Illinois, instances
have not been wanting to prove the wisdom of such a prohibition.

Coming to our notice of Wisconsin, Bro. Jenks says :

Brother Robbins seem to be of the opinion that the grand lodge was in
error in proceeding to hear and try Brother Daggett, claiming that the
lodge of which he was a member could not lawfully be ousted of its juris-
diction. He alludes to some landmarks which he thinks applies to such case.
In conclusion he says, "The offender got what he deserved, but it was the
duty of the grand lodge to see that he got it according to law."

We have seldom found occasion to disagree with Brother Bobbins.
All know that he is one of the most careful and conservative of writers,
yet we think he is in error this time. The grand lodge is sovereign and
supreme. It unites in itself all the powers of Masonry, subject only to the
ancient landmarks. We have never found a landmark which declares that
the original trial jurisdiction resides in and is vested in subordinate lodges,
and really this is the first time we have ever seen the position advanced.
Of course, grand lodges more frequently exercise appellate than original
jurisdiction, but the grand lodge may, whenever it sees fit, exercise original
trial jurisdiction. We quote from Mackey's "Masonic Jurisprudence,"
page 436: "But the general spirit of the ancient law is that the grand lodge
may at all times exercise original jurisdiction, and hence where a grand

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lodge has not by especial enactment divested itself of the prerogative of
original jurisdiction, it may by its own process proceed to the trial and
punishment of any Mason living within its jurisdiction."

Again he says, page 437. "There is no fact in the history of Masonic
jurisprudence more certain than that the general assembly of grand lodge
always in ancient times exercised original jurisdiction and supervision over
the whole craft."

Brother Robbins is so accurate at all times that we find it a positive
pleasure to discover him in error for once.

We shall be very glad if our astute brother never discovers us more
widely in error than in this matter. It seems to us a marvel that in an
experience of six years reviewing, this subject has not attracted Bro.
Jenk's attention before, although it is in the nature of things that it might
fail to arrest his attention, so long as it did not get discussed in connec-
tion with their own proceedings. Then to it must be remembered that
he came to the Round Table just at a time when there was a lull in the
discussion over the Massachusetts departure, and over Chapter 37 (we
think it was 37) of the Iowa code, which was enacted when Iowa followed
in the wake of Massachusetts. Into that discussion this subject of the
exclusive competency of the lodge as the seat of trial jurisdiction largely
entered.

The present constitution of the Grand Lodge of Illinois (adopted in
1871) in its statement of the powers of the grand lodge, says:

This grand lodge has — original and exclusive jurisdiction over all sub-
jects of Masonic legislation and administration; appellate, judicial, and
administrative jurisdiction from the decisions of worshipful masters, and
from the decisions and acts of lodges, and, when expedient, it has original
judicial jurisdiction over its officers, members and worshipful masters;
and its inactments and decisions upon all questions shall be the supreme
Masonic law of the State.

This section simply defines more minutely the "supreme legislative,
executive and judicial authority," claimed in the preamble to belong to it
as an absolute independent body, "provided, aki'ays, that the ancient land-
marks of the institution be held inviolate."

Here it will be seen that original trial jurisdiction is recognized as
residing absolutely elsewhere than in the grand lodge except in the cases of
its "officers, members and worshipful masters ;" with the plain implica-
tion that as a rule such jurisdiction was expected to be exercised else-
where than in the grand lodge, over all its officers and members except
the grand master and masters in office.

This is in deference to the same landmark upon which the right of
appeal is based, which is explicity recognized in the section quoted (and in
practice recognized everywhere), and which, as found in the Sixth of the

336 APPENDIX — PART I.

Charges of a Freemason, definitely vests original trial jurisdiction in the
lodges by its declaration that they are "the proper and competent judges of
all such controversies."

We don't know where Mackey got his idea about the spirit of the
ancient law, or his alleged fact that general assembly exercised original
jurisdiction. It is not probable that there was a complete reversal of prac-
tice in the year 1721, when the agreement as to what constituted the au-
thoritative charges was reached ; but be that as it may, that agreement
sealed the authoritative interpretation of what was the spirit and the sub-
stance of the ancient law for all time to come.

Time ! Anf Widersehen.

WYOMING, 1903-

29TH Annual. Newcastle. September 2.

The frontispiece of the Wyoming volume is a portrait of a face so fine
as to be worthy of a more successful treatment of the half-tone art, that
of the incoming grand master, T. S. Taliaferro, Jr. His decoration would
indicate a follower of Mohammed, but as Brother Eggleston, of Virginia,
tells us that he is a nephew of the late grand master, Grand Master Talia-
ferro (pronounced Tolliver) of that state, we presume the button jewel
is misleading.

Four past grand masters were present. , (Brother Kuykendall says
they dispensed with their diplomatic corps years ago, "thereby saving valu-
able time, printer's ink, and paper.")

The grand master, Charles N. Potter, announced officially the death
of Past Grand Master James H. Heyford, intelligence of whose passing
reached them during the last annual communication of their grand lodge.
He was one of the pioneers of Wyoming, for some time judge of the sec-
ond judicial district, and always prominent in public affairs. Dead also
was Past Grand Master DeForest Richards, governor of Wyoming. He
had for a number of years occupied a commanding position in the political
and business affairs of the state. He was buried from the state capitol —
the grand master says with Masonic ceremonies ; but we presume this was
a slip of the pen, as he says the services were conducted by the Knights
Templars.

Thirteen decisions were reported, although the first, as will be seen
didn't decide anything:

MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE. 337

I. Charges having been preferred by one brother against another, the
matter was referred to a committee to take evidence, and pending investiga-
tion by said committee the accused brother died. Thereafter the commit-
tee submitted a report, which was adopted by the lodge. The report, among
other things, recommended that the charges be withdrawn, which was done,
and the case dismissed. The precise nature of the report, except that it
recommended withdrawal of the charges, was not communicated to me.
The complainant then requested that the lodge furnish him with a copy of
the report of the committee. Two questions were presented, viz :

First — Has the accuser a right to such copy under the seal of the
lodge ?

Second — Can the lodge comply with the brother's request?

Answer — The question being a rather novel one, I gave it as my opin-
ion, rather than as a binding decision, that the brother did not have a posi-
tive right to a copy of the report authenticated under the seal of the lodge ;
but that the matter rested within the discretion of the lodge, and it could
grant or refuse the request as should appear wisest under the cir-
stances. However, I advised the lodge that the request should be granted
only in case the lodge should be satisfied no harm could result, and that,
without a good and valid reason, the request should not be complied with ;
and if the use to which the copy might be put would be liable to bring dis-
credit upon the name of the deceased brother, or would tend to injure the
lodge or the order, the propriety of granting the request was at least to be
very much doubted.

The grand master should have told the accuser that the case had gone
to a higher court and the papers with it.

In a case where a resident of Wyoming received the degrees while in
San Francisco en route to the Philippines as an enlisted soldier of the vol-
unteer service, he properly decided that he was not attainted by the irregu-
larity in his making, and that the Wyoming lodge that had since affiliated
him had not erred therein ; that a lodge could not accept an invitation to
attend church as such, the regulation forbidding public appearances except
on Masonic occasions ; that work by courtesy is permissible in Wyoming,
and also that the grand master and grand lodge there possess territorial
jurisdiction, and the lodges do not, or to give it in his own language, as
approved by the committee on jurisprudence:

12. No lodge in this jurisdiction has a right to waive jurisdiction in
favor of a lodge in another state over a profane who resides in this state.
The only authority to make such waiver is the grand lodge or grand master.

He also decided that it is not necessary that all the pall-bearers should
be Masons when a brother is being buried with Masonic rites, and inci-
dentally, that the contrary rule is illiberal, which was also approved.

He construed the following broadly and sensibly :

At the last annual communication a resolution was adopted directing
the grand master to secure the services of one or more master Masons to
deliver lectures on Masonry to the lodges, and the sum of three hundred
dollars was appropriated for that purpose. I believe the resolution broad
enough to include lectures to be delivered upon the work by the grand lee-

338 APPENDIX. — PART I.

turer ; and hence I have approved the expense bills of that officer to be
paid out of the fund referred to. I am sincerely of the opinion that noth-
ing could have been more instructive or beneficial, nor more appropriate
under the circumstances. I was unable to secure any other class of lec-
tures that seemed to me worthy of recommendation.

Two new lodges were chartered; the petition of a brother to be allowed
to visit a certain lodge was denied for the sound reason that every lodge
has full control of the admission of non-members to visit. The grand lodge
ordered the appointment of a committee to revise the official work; directed
a continuation of the publication of half-tone portraits, which this year
bears fruit in the portrait already noticed, and that of Ervin F. Cheney,
who was grand master in 1882; gracefully acknowledged the hospitalities
of the members of the local fraternity and their ladies ; ordered the pay-
ment of the actual traveling expenses of two representatives from each
lodge and each grand officer attending the next annual communication ;
fixed upon Evanston as the next place of meeting, and amended the law
to the following effect :

Section 1. The annual communication of this grand lodge for the year
1904 shall be held on the third Wednesday in August, and thereafter shall
be held on the firstWednesday in September in each year at such place as
the grand lodge may designate by motion or resolution at each regular
communication.

T. S. Taliaferro, of Rock Springs, was elected grand master ; Wil-
liam L. Kuykendall, Saratoga, re-elected grand secretary.

The report on correspondence (119 pp.) is from the customary hand
of Grand Secretary Kuykendall, who gives the Illinois proceedings for
1902 full notice. Summarizing the address of Grand Master Moulton,
he says :

"No transactions within the tiled precincts of the lodge room, where
none but A^asons are present, should ever reach the public through the
medium of the secular press." He goes into the question at length, the
above being the most salient feature, with all of which we thoroughly
agree, with the addition that such transactions are not proper to be related
outside of the lodge room except among Masons.

He thoroughly agrees with strictures on undue publicity in Masonic
matters, with the addition that transactions which take place within the
tiled lodge room, are not proper subject of talk except among Masons,
with which we agree. Noticing the Pennslyvania incident, he says :

The idea that grand masters should have anything whatever to do
with the interment of a Mason in good standing in a lodge, as in the case
above cited, is ridiculous, and is only confined to a few jurisdictions along
the Atlantic coast. In our opinion, his trust as above expressed is sadly
misplaced. No such legislation upon the matter involved or upon divers
other question of variance will ever be adopted in ay jurisdiction where it
is said that the "grand master is not the grand master of the grand lodge,
but is grand master of Masons," and where he is accorded the preorogative

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of doing as he sees fit regarding about everything, whether it is contrary
to law or not. The prerogative doctrine is behind all such cases as the
above. We also trust our Pennsylvania brethren will rise up in grand
lodge and provide that the grand master is not a necessary party when it
comes to a lodge burying a brother with Masonic honors, when requested
so to do. Faith in their doing so is, however, not very strong.

Of the disapproval of the action of the grand master in declaring a
member of a lodge expelled, he says :

There is no question that he should have been expelled by the lodge.
The grand master certainly had no right to do so. The above action left
him a member of the lodge, as we infer the definite suspension had expired.
The grand lodge immediately, upon motion, expelled him, after summary
proceedings and on the ground that he had pleaded guilty to the charge
against him at time of trial by the lodge. In our opinion there is now and
then a case where such summary action may be necessary, and this case was
no doubt of that character. As a rule it would seem to be bad policy, and
we have no doubt the Grand Lodge of Illinois would so hold.

We refer Brother Kuykendall to our comments on this case, under
New Hampshire, and elsewhere.

Of another matter :

There was quite a display over the question of recognition of one or
two foreign grand lodges. One paper closed with the following : "That
the recognition of the National Grand Lodge of Egypt by the Mother
Grand Lodge of the World, the Grand Lodge of England, would have
cured and healed any such irregularity and made it the peer of the Grand
Lodges of Freemasonry everywhere."

If we are not mistaken, the Grand Lodge of England has recognized at
least one other so-called grand lodge that is not considered the peer of
any grand lodge in this country ; on the contrary, is held to be clandestine.
The Mother Grand Lodge is, therefore, clearly not an infallable guide
to be followed in recognizing anything. Neither is she an infallible guide
for Masons of this country to follow regarding a number of other matters
Masonic.

He has also a brief but courteous notice of the Illinois report on cor-
respondence.

STATISTICS
From the report of Past Grand Master Jksse B. Anthony, Chairman of the
Committee on Foreign Correspondence, of the Grand Lodge of New York submit-
ted Mav 3, 1904.

Grand Lodge.

O "i

Mem-
ber-
ship.

Raised

Afflli
ated

Died

= 3,3

•a

4) -c

•3 l>

a ■ss

Net

Pkd ft

Gain.

2 H

2 «
73 w

Alabama

Arizona

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Delaware

D. of Col

Florida

Georgia

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Indian Terr'y...

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

Maryland

Mas'chusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

N.Hampshire...

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

N. Carolina

North Dakota...

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

S. Carolina ,

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia. ..

Wisconsin

Wyoming

B. Columbia.. .

Canada

Manitoba

N. Brunswick.
Nova Scotia.. .
P. Edward Is. .
Quebec

412

17

462

281

li-
no

21

30
144
461

34
729
514
125
503
364
479
151
199
106
235
391
239
293
565

49
233

21

79
173

21
757
324

67
500

92
101
439

3

191
U0
424
683

10
103
268
120
124
253

21

Total.

36
375
79
36
64
14
57

661

14,310
1,023

12,416
27,1)78
10.001
18,514

2,504

6,711

4.905
22.841

1,698
66,621
37,318

4,994
33.181
23,56
23547

7.264
23,940

9, 1 22
43,415
47.638
18,543
10,966
37,684

3,

13,624

944

9,584
20,351

1.231

118,185

12.355

4,39'
55,065

4,148

6.405
59.826

5,883

6,926

5,444
17,895
32,384

1,083
10,983
14.563

7,056

8,712
19,713

1,488

951 ,655

2,473

30,485
3,811
2.064
3,882
607
4,199

37.521
989,176

1,190

109

881

2,613

66

908

125

549

380

1,696

145

5,29

3,0ln

455

2,293

1,764

2.345

868

U

e

2,339

3,049

1,386
814

2,434

308

850

75

445

1,565
93

9,945
879
469

4.444
52'
434

4,009
349
515
410

1,019

2,019
86
56'
724
672
800

1,271
166

70,847

207
2,287
295
152
320
43
326

3.630

636
43
405
627
300

236

338

4

298
133

5 4
55

26*
16
423
174
141
332
18
102
87

681

'l',
550
435
196

87
3

62
224

375

29
474
208

114

] 55
31
82

Hi'

36

90
1 021
807
401
715
65U
603
148
12'

71
2,633
915
476
388
819
102
314

23'
52

1,196
311
91
753
356
187
592
368
343
195
443

1,267
•45
117
354
495
157
413
36

20,675

458

188

14
74

.852

14

407

255

43

319

220

522

58

89

39

85

150

84

217

383

34

134

10

12

77

11

1,162

138

19

919

18

47

34
141
236

15

26
218

91

6
131

10

7,468

4

219
30
14
37
3
26

333

30

LOOS

550

65
427
361
341
148
419
13'
643
74
226
224
577

46
176

29
209
339

16

1,872

196

41
790

48

90

1,071

103

25

59
349
582

10
179
247

85
103
263

1

14,801

6
314
22
36
40
12
51

481

15.2S2

58
1,398
82c
364
1,069
863
881
201
165

87
404
76
51
464
1,159

92
425

16

197

40

1.120

311

131

763

258

125

411

20

209

189

626

1,570

28

76

420

172

143

478

44

19,428

64
612
68
4

100

5

109

1,005

341
141

443
318
636

8'
167

87
363
249
I9C
279
548

84

176

6

70
140

20

1,969

2U0

31
851

50

76
559

47
130

81

378

490

5

88
174
137

7.1

156

4

4

34

604

3

1

9

6

15

5

1

595

800
84
112

2,343
569
784
7?
454
282

1,703
13

3.549

2,211
317

1,372

1,179

1,728
63'
716
464
123

2,343

1 ,007
426

1,400

22

509

40

104

1,201
98

6,820
581
315

3,691
957
3'

2.560
198
394
306
125
816
101
309
461
8M
689
918
146

12,222

483
149
23
78
5
123

882

13,104, 602

47,605

188

1,551

325

74
162

32
180

2.512

COMPARISON

TABLE.

n be

a a

§1

a*

3-

22

49
24
11
28
19
44
35
40
15
45

•4

8
39

9
13
14
32
12
30

6

5
18
27

7
43
23
50
29
16
47

1
25
41

4
42
36

3
37
34
38
20
10
48
26
21
33
31
17
46

Subordinate

Lodges.

be u

Ci Q

0* fc

be A

d-t-crt
<v o
O -w
U V

Hi

^

Grand Lodge.

a

3

a

a
2

a
a

d

3

V

bo
u

V

>

<

as 5

248
143

7
19

34

60

30

95

85

168

119

224

34

49

50

91

72

40

66

65

49

47

120

82

186

122

78

37

66

77

58

45

121

118

59

156

37

65

110

45

62

136

159

36

54

42

48

108

106

53

59

70

78

71

68
81
48
57
61
40
73

.08.79
.11.60
.07.16
.10.56
.07.07
.05.12
.05.15
.08.77
.08 22
.08.05
.09.28
.08.39
.08.60
.10.00
.07.23
.07.88
.10.74
.13.09
.05.27
.07.68
.05.55
.06.73
.07.90
.07.72
.06.70
.08.66
.06.48
.08.29
.04.69
.08 17
.08.11
.08.48
.07.46
.11.49
.08.65
.16.01
.07.19
.07.00
.06.14
.07 88
.07.98
.05 73
.06.39
.08.76
.05.31
.05.23
.10.83
.09.96
.06.70
.12.37

.09.06
.07 90
.08.32
.07.64
.(8.60
.07.47
.08.03

.05 90
.09.00

12

4

34

693
592
774
368
705
141

175
853
441
133
426
356
757
193
473
318
6 4
700
913

564
219
423
163
356
466
162
1068
138
412
664
228
240
559
554
141
200
301

12
11
30
19
53
8

ii'

16
13
11
15
10
9
13
36
15
20
It
15

13
15
11
13
24
21
15
18

9
20
24
11
14
21
38

8
17
12

.09 80
.06.03
04.42
.03.21
.07.25
.06.10

g

35

49

48

13

21

24

.08.77
.05.62
.06.29
.07.10
.04 33
.05.27
.07.92
.09.61
.03 08
.05.36

"05.17 "

.05.90
.04.04
.03.85
.06.41
.03.88
.04.41
.01.09
.06 27
.08.55
.06.12
.04.93
.07.71
.07.18
.29.11
.06.13
.04 46
.03.48
.06.03
.05.95

19

17

Indian Territory

9
32

27

7

2

Main-

46

Maryland

30

44

Michigan

37

Minnesota

26

Mississippi

29

Missouri

38

15

Nevada

40
20

New Hampshire

50

New Jersey

22

New M exico

23

New York

18

North Carolina

31

North Dakota

5

Ohio

16

Oklahoma

1

Oregon

33

36

Rhode Island

Sou tti Carolina

South Dakota

42
28
25

43

Texas

.02.58
.10.28
.02.89
.03.33
.13.70
.08.58
.04.88
.10.88

.08.23
.05.36
.09.32
.0 1.72
.01.32
.05.56
.04.93

41

Utah

243
325

426
383
293
393
190

212
387
227
149
140
101
175

18
27
9
10
12
13
19

18
9
9
14
15
13
22

14

45

"Virginia

47

Washington

6
10

39

Wyoming

3

British Columbia

Canada

Prince Edward Island

STATISTICAL COMPARISON.

Grand Lodges

Subordinate Lodges

Raised ,

Affiliated

Restored

Died

Demitted

Suspended for non-payment of dues. .

suspended and expelled

Membership

1901

57
12,391

51,491)
16,316
7,218
13,557
17,789
15,591
689
873,075

12,516
57,798
16,457
7,218
14,400
19,668
14,293
542
901,968

57

12,704

62,799

17.452

6,933

14.082

19284

13,387

523

944,188

1904

57
12,837
74,477
21,527
7,801
15,282
20,433
13,104
602
989,176

Based upon the tables we find, in the Grand Lodges of the United Slates
the following percentages:

Accessions by new work

Additions by affiliation and restoration

Losses by death •

Losses for non-payment of dues ,

Losses by dimission

Net gain of the year

1901

6.06
2.82
1.62
1.83
2.08
3.17

2 73
1.67
1.62
2.24

3.68

6.91
2.70
1.58
1.47
2.11
4.36

7.83
3.11
1.64
1.35
2.15
5.26

In numerical standing the most promi-
nent rank in the following order:

New York 118,185

Illinois 66,621

Pennsylvania 59,826

Ohio 55,065

Michigan 47,638

Massachusetts 43,415

Missouri 37,681

Indiana 37,318

Iowa 33,181

Texas 32.384

California 27.078

Maine; 23,940

Kansas 23.567

Kentucky 23,547

Georgia ■ ■ ■ 22,481

The average of membership to each
Lodge is greatest in the following:

District of Columbia 224

Massachusetts 186

Connecticut 168

Rhode Island 159

New York 156

Pennsylvania 136

Michigan 122

New Hampshire 121

Maine 120

Delaware 119

New Jersey 118

Ohio 110

Utah 108

Vermont 106

The jurisdictions having Lodges of the largest membership are in the fol-
lowing order:

Subordinate Lodge.

Location

Member-
ship.

Grand Lodge

Name

No.

163

19

141

1

281

19

1

169

20

5

299

59

21

1.068

Minneapolis

GardenCity

913

853

New Haven

774

705

700

693

Ohio

661

Roswell Lee

624

592

564

What Cheer

559

554

APPENDIX

PART II.

LODGE DIRECTORY.
TABULATED STATEMENTS.

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Alphabetical List of Postoffices.

GIVING NAME AND NUMBER OP LODGE LOCATED AT EACH.

PO-.TOFFICE.

Abingdon

Albany

Albion

Aledo

Alexis

Allendale.

Allen's Springs

Alta

Altamont

Alton

Altona

Alto Pass

Amboy

Andalusia

Anna

Antioch

Apple River

Areola

Argenta

Arlington

Arrowsmith —

Arthur

Ashley

Ashmore

Ashton

Assumption

Astoria

Atkinson

Atlanta

Atwood

Auburn

Augusta

Aurora

Aurora

Austin

Ava

Avon

Bardolph

Barrington

Barry

Basco

Batavia

Beardstown

Beecher City —

Belknap

Belle Rive

Belleville

Belvidere

Bement

Benton

Birds

Berwyn

Bethalto

Blandinsville. . .
Bloomington. . .
Bloomington ..
Bloomington . ..
Blue Island

Abingdon

Albany

Hermitage

Aledo

Alexandria

Allendale

Gurney

Alta

Altamont

Piasa

Altona

Alto Pass

Illinois Central . .

Andalusia

Anna

Sequoit

Apple River

Areola

Argenta

Levi Lusk

Arrowsmith

Arthur

Clay

Ashmore

Ashton

Bromwell

Astoria

Annawan

Atlanta

Atwood

Ark & Anchor

J. L. Anderson . . .
Jerusalem Temp

Aurora

Austin

Dean

Avon Harmony . .

Bardolph

Lounsbury

Barry

Basco

Batavia

Cass

Beecher City

Belknap

Belle Rive

St. Clair

Belvidere

Bement

Benton

S. D. Monroe

Berwyn

Bethalto

Blandinsville

Bloomington

Wade-Barney

Mozart

alumet

185
566
356
252
702
752
778
748
533

27
330
840
178
516
520
827
859
366
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270
737
825
153
390
531
451
100
433
165
651
354
318

90
254
850
833
253
572
751

34
618
404

23
665
822
696

24

60
365

64
447
839
406
233

43
512
656
716

POSTOFFICE.

Blue Mound

Bluffs

Bowen

Bradford

Braidwood

Brayfleld

Bridgeport

Brighton

Broadlands

Brookport

Buckley

Buda

Buffalo Prairie.

Bunker Hill

Burnside

Burnt Prairie . . .

Bushnell

Byron

Cabery

Cairo

Camargo

Cambridge

Camden

Cameron

Camp Point

Campbell Hill...

Canton

Capron

Cantrall

Carbondale

Carlinville

Carlyle

Carman

Carmi

Carrollton

Carterville

Carthage

Casey

Catlin

Cave-in-Rock . . .

Centralia

Cerro Gordo

Chadwick

Chambersburg .

Champaign

Chandlerville . . .

Channahon

Charleston

Chatham

Chatsworth

Chebanse

Chenoa

Cherry Valley...

Chester

Chesterfield

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

Blue Mound

Bluffs

Bowen

Bradford

Braidwood

Goode

Bridgeport

Hibbard

Broadlands

Farmers ... .

Buckley

Buda

Illinois City

Bunker Hill....

Burnside

Burnt Prairie .
T. J. Pickett....

Byron

Norton

Cairo

Camargo

Cambridge

Camden

Berwick

Benjamin

ShilohHill

Morning Star . .

Capron

Van Meter

Shekinah

Mt. Nebo

Scott

Carman

Carmi

Carrollton

Williamson

Hancock

Casey

Catlin

Cave-in-Rock ..

Centralia

Cerro Gordo

Chadwick

Chambersburg .
Western Star . .
Chandlerville ..

Channahon

Charleston

Chatham

Chatsworth

Chebanse

Chenoa

Cherry Valley ..

Chester

Chesterfield ....

Accordia

Apollo

Arcana

682
846
486
514
704
744
386
249
791
232
634
399
679
151
683
668
307
274
631
237
440
49
648
619
297
695
734
575
762
241
76
79
732

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442
285
444
201
600
867
373
240
724
262

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523
539
429
292
173

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445
277
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APPENDIX — PART II.

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF POSTOFFICES— Continued.

POSTOFFICE.

Chicago

Chicago

(Auburn Park) .

Chicago

Chicago

I Ihicago

Chicago

( liright'n P'rk)

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

(Lawndale)

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

(Englewood)

Chicago

Chicago

(West Pullman i

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

(G'nd Crossing)
Chicago

(So. Chicago). ..

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

(Kensington) . .

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago.

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

(Chicago Lawn)

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

Cnicago

Chicago

Chicago

(Irving Park)...

Chicago

Chicago

(Englewood)....
Chicago

(Norwood Park)

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

(Pullman)

Chicago

(RodgersPark)

Chicago

Chicago

(Jefferson)

Chicago

(Ravenswood) ..
Chicago

POSTOFFICE.

Ashlar.

Auburn Park.

Ben Hur

Blair

Blaney

sis
393
271

Brighton Park.

Chicago

Cleveland

Columbian.. .
Constantia...

Covenant

D. C. Cregier.
Dearborn

Englewood
Equity

Fides

Garden City.
Garfield. ..."..
Germania ...
Golden Rule.

Grand Crossing. . .

Harbor

Herder

Hesperia

Home

Humboldt Park.

Kensington.

Kenwood

Keystone

Kilwinning.
King Oscar.
Lakeside.. ..
Lake View..
Landmark..

Lawn

Lessing

Lincoln Park.
Metropolitan.

Mithra

Mizpah

Myrtle

Mystic Star.

Normal Park.

Beacon Light
Olympia

Oriental

Park ....
Pleiades

Providence.

Ravenswood..
Richard Cole.

854
437
211

819
783
526
643
310

690
UD

842
141

686
182
726

731
669
411
508
813

804
800
639
311
855
739
774
422

815
557
611
860
410
768

795

758

784

864

33

765

843

478

777

697

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago (Tracy) .
Chicago

(So. Chicago)...

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

(WiridsorPark)

Chicago

Chicago

(Woodlawn Pk)
Chicago

(Wright's Gro.)
Chicago Heights

Chillicothe

Chrisman

|Clay City

Clayton

Clifton

Clinton

Coal Valley

Cobden.. . ."

Conn

Colchester

Colfax

Collinsville

Colono

{Columbia

Columbus

Compton

Concord

Cordova

Corinth

Cornell

Cornland

Cowden

Crab Orchard....

Creal Springs

Creston

Crete

,Cuba

Dallas City

Danvers

Danville

Davis

Dawson

Decatur

Decatur

De Kalb

De Land

Delavan

Denver

De Soto

De Witt

Diona

Dix

Dixon

Dohgola

Donnelson

Downers Grove. .
Dundee

Siloam

South Park

Standard

St. Andrews

St. Cecilia

Thos. J. Turner.
Tracy

Triluminar

Union Park

Waldeck

Waubansia

Wm. McKinley..

Windsor Park . .
Wm. B. Warren.

Woodlawn Park..

Wright's Grove..
Chicago Heights
Geo. Washington

Bloomfield

Clay City

Clavton

Clifton

DeWitt

Valley

Cobden

New Hope

Colchester

Colfax

Collinsville

Clement

Columbia

Columbus

BrookH'n

N. D. Morse

Cordova

Andrew Jackson

Cornell

Cornland

Joppa

Blazing Star

Creal Springs...

Creston

Crete

Cuba

Dallas City

Danvers

Olive Branch. ...

Evening Star

Dawson

Macon

Ionic

De Kalb

De Land

Delavan

Denver

De Soto

Amon

Hutton

Rome

Friendship

Dongola

Donnelson

Grove

Dundee

780
662
UD
863
865
409
810

767
610
674
160
UD

836
209

841

851

•>w

148

488
147

(SS*

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547
466
620
496
799
712
680
474
227
282
346
543
487
868
808
706
458
817
320
763
534
235
742

38
414

312
144

812
156
464
287
261
698
721
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255
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21

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF POSTOFFICES— Continued,

POSTOFFICE.

Livingston.
Meridian...

Martin

East St. Louis...

Gothic

Crawford

Eddyville ...

Edgewood

Du Quoin Du Quoin.

Durand Durand.

Dwight

Eariville

East Dubuque...
East St. Louis...
East St. Louis...

Eaton

Eddyville

Edgewood

Edinburg Blueville

Edwardsville jEdwardsville

Effingham I Effingham. . .

Elburn Blackberrv. .

Kl Dara !E1 Dara

Eldorado Eldorado

Elgin

Monitor

Kavanaugh. .

Elizabeth

Delia

Horeb

El Paso

Elgin

Elgin

Elizabeth

Elizabethtown
Elliottstown...

Elmwood

El Paso

Elvaston lElvaston

Enfield 'Enfield..

Equality .Equality

Erie Erie

Etna

Eureka

Evanston

Evansville

Ewing

Exeter

Fairburv

Fairfield

Fairmount. ..

Fairview

Fairweather

Farina

Farmer City.
Farmington.

Fieldon

Fillmore

Findlay

Fisher"

Flat Rock....

Wabash

W. C. Hobbs..

Evans

Kaskaskia

Ewing

Exeter

Tarbolton

Fairfield

Fairmount . . .

Fairview

Kingston

Farina

Farmer City.
Farmington. .

Fieldon

Fillmore

Findlay

Sangamon.. . .
Russellville. . .

Flora 'Flora.

Forrest

Franklin

Franklin Grove

Freeburg

Freedom

Freeport

Freeport

Fulton

Galena

Galesburg

Galesburg

Gallatia

Galva

Ganntown

Gays

Gardner Gardner

GeneSeo Stewart

Geneva Geneva.

Genoa Genoa. .

Georgetown Russell .

Gibson City iGibson.

Forrest

Wadley

Franklin Grove.

Freeburg

Freedom

Excelsior

Evergreen

Fulton City

Miners

Aliffia

Vesper

Gallatia

Galva

New Columbia...
Miles Hart

NO. POSTOFFICE.

234

302
371
183
491
504
852

484
647

99
149
359
388
730
117
522

36
276
525
363
246
715
677
2

667
179
306
524

86
705
424
351
206
590
350
266
601
710
192
592
670
831
801
348
204
614
616
264
418
194

97
170
189
273
155
584
684
243
336
595
573

92
139
288
154
733

Gillespie

Gilman

Girard

Glasf ord

Golconda

Golden

Good Hope

Goreville

Grafton

Grand Tower.
Gray's Lake. .

Grayville

Greenfield. . . .

Greenup

Greenview

Greenville....
Griggsville. . .

Grove City

Hamburg

Hamilton

Hamletsburg.
Hampshire .. .
Hardinsville. .

Hardin

Harrisburg ..
Harristown...

Harvard

Harvey

Havana

Hazel Dell....
Hebron

Gillespie

Gilman

Girard

Lancaster

Golconda

LaPrairie. . .
Good Hope . . .

Saline

Full Moon ...

Lafayette

Rising Sun ..

Sheba

Greenfield.. .

Greenup

Greenview.. .
Greenville. . .
Griggsville...

Fisher

West Gate.. .
Black Hawk.

Bay City

Hampshire . .
Hardinsville.

Calhoun

Harrisburg. .

Summit

Harvard

Magic City.. .

Havana

Hazel Dell...
Hebron

Henry jHenry

Herrin .

Hey worth

Highland

Highland Park..

Hillsboro

Hinckley

Hindsbdro

Holcomb

Homer

Hoopeston

Hopedale

Hope

Hume

Huntsville

Hutsonville

Illiopolis

Indianola

Industry

Iola

Ipava

Iroquois

Irving

Iuka

Jacksonville

Jacksonville

Jeffersonville ...

Jersey ville

Johnsonville

Johnston City...

Joliet

Joliet

Jonesboro

Kane

Kankakee

Kansas

Kafber's Ridge

Herrm's Prairie.

Heyworth

Highland

A. O. Fay

Mt. Moriah

Hinckley

Hindsboro

Meridian Sun

Homer

Star

Hopedale

Hopewell

Edgar

Huntsville

Hutsonville

Illiopolis

Vermilion

Industry

Iola

Ipava

O. H. Miner

Irving

J. D. Moody

Harmony

Jacksonville

Jeffersonville

Jerseyville

Johnsonville

Lake Creek

Mt. Joliet

Matteson

Jonesboro

King Solomon's..

Kankakee

Kansas

Tadmor

99

APPENDIX — PART II.

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF POSTOFFICES-CVmtf>M<ed.

POSTOFFICE.

Kenney

Kewanee

Keithsburg

Kinder hook

Kingston

Kinmundy

Kirkland

Kirkwood

Knoxville

Lacon

LaFayette

LaGrange

LaHarpe

Lake Creek

La Moille

Lanark

LaSalle

Latham

Lawn Ridge

Lawrenceville

Lebanon

Lee Center

Leland

Lena

Lerna

Le Roy

Lewistown

Lexington

Liberty

Liberty ville . . .
Lick Creek ....

Lima

Lincoln

Lisbon

Litchfield

Litchfield

Littleton

Loami

Lockport

Loda

London Mills. .

Long Point

Lostant

Louisville

Lovington

Ludlow

Lyndon

Lynn ville

McHenry

McLean

McLeansboro. .

Macedonia

Mackinaw

Macomb

Macon

Magnolia

Mahomet

Makanda

Manchester

Manito

Mansfield

Maquon

Marcelline

Marengo

Marine

Marion

Maroa

Marseilles

Marshall

NAME.

Henderson

Kewanee

Robert Burns

Kinder hook

Kishwaukee

Kinmundy

Boyd D

Abraham Lincoln

Pacific

Lacon

Stark

LaGrange

La Harpe

Lake Creek

La Moille

Lanark

Acacia

Latham

Lawn Ridge

Edward Dobbins.

Lebanon

Lee Center

Leland

Lena

Lerna

Le Roy

Lewistown

Lexington

Liberty

Liberty ville

Union

Lima

Logan

Orient

Charter Oak

Litchfield

Littleton

Loami

Lockport

Abraham Jonas. .

London

Long Point

Lostant

Louisville

Lovington

Pera

Lvndon

Gill

McHenry

McLean

Polk

Royal

Mackinaw

M acomb

South Macon

Magnolia

Mahomet

Makanda...

Manchester

Manito

Mansfield

Maquon

Marcelline

Marengo

Marine

Fellowship

Maroa

Marseilles

Marshall

820
159
113
353
402
398
857
518
66
61
501
770
195
729
383
423
67
853
415
164
110
146
558
174
788
221
104
482
380
492

135
210
323
236
517
766
450
538
316
848
552
870
196
228
574
750
382
158
469
137
807
132

17
467
103
220
434
229
476
773
530
114
138
355

89
454
417
133

POSTOFFICE.

Martinsville

Martinton

Mascoutah

Mason

Mason City

Mattoon

May wood

Mazon

Medora

Melvin

Mendon

Mendota'

Meredosia

Metropolis City ..

Milan '....

Milford

Millburn

Milledge ville

Milton

Minier

Minonk

Minooka

Moline

Momence

Monmouth

Monticello

Montrose

Morris

Morrison

Morrisonville

Morton

Mound City

Mound Station. ..
Mount Auburn. . .

Mt. Carmel

Mt. Carroll

Mt. Erie

Mt. Morris

Mt. Pulaski

Mount Sterling . .

Mt. Vernon

Moweaqua

Murphysboro

Murray ville

Naperville

Nashville

Nebo

Neoga

Neponset

New Boston

New Burnside

New Canton

New Douglas

New Grand Chain

New Hartford

New Haven

New Holland

Newman

New Salem

Newton

New Windsor

Noble

Nokomis

Normal

Norris City

Norwood Park.. . .

Nunda

Oakland

Oak Park

NAME.

Clark

Martinton

Douglas

Mason

Mason City

Mattoon

Maywood

Mazon ,

Fidelity

Melvin".

Mendon ,

Mendota

Benevolent

Metropolis ,

Eureka

Milford

Antioch

Milledgeville

Milton

Comet

Rob Morris

Minooka

Doric

Momence

Monmouth

Fraternal

Prairie City

Cedar

Dunlap

Morrisonville

Groveland

Trinity

Kendrick

Kedron

Mt. Carmel

Cvrus

Mt. Erie

Samuel H. Davis

Mt. Pulaski

Hardin

!Mt. Vernon

I Moweaqua

1 Murphysboro

(Murray ville

Euclid

Washington

Nebo

Neoga

Neponset

New Boston

I New Burnside

I New Canton

'Madison

Grand Chain

New Hartford

New Haven

New Holland

Newman

New Salem

Newton

Oxford

Noble

Nokomis

Normal

May

Beacon Light —

Nunda

Oakland

Oak Park

603
845
361
217
403
260
869
826
152
811
449
176
52
91

127
345
275
641
247
528
319
481
37
58
578
124
321
681
352
562
430
340
239
188
331

44
31
180
498
432
65
55
806
279
803
59
772
821
560
660
453
230
741
369
218
216
367
362
456
673
718
784
169
219
540

APPENDIX — PART II.

23

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF POSTOFFICES— Continued.

POSTOFFICE.

Oblong

Oconee

Odell

Odin

O'Fallon

Ogden

Ohio

Olmsted

Olney

Omaha

Onarga

Oneida

Opdyke

Oqu'awka

Orangeville

Oregon

Orion

Oswego

Ottawa

Ottawa

Owaneco

Palatine

Palestine

Palmyra

Pana

Paris

Paris

Parkersburg

Patoka

Pawnee

Paw Paw

Paxton

Payson

^earl City

Pecatonica

Pekin

Pekin

Peoria

Peoria

Peoria

Peoria

Peotone

Perry

Peru

Petersburg

Philo

Pilot

Pinckneyville . ..

Pittsfleld

Piper City

Plainfield

Plainview

Plainville

Piano

Pleasant Hill....
Pleasant Plains.

Plymouth

Pocahontas

Polo

Pontiac

Oblong City

Oconee

Odell

Odin

O'Fallon

Ogden

Ohio

Caledonia

Olney

Omaha

Onarga

Oneida -

Jefferson

Oquawka

Orangeville

Oregon

Sherman

Raven

Occidental

Humboldt

Locust

Palatine

Palestine

Palmyra

Pana

Prairie

Paris

Parkersburg

Patoka

Pawnee

Corinthian

Paxton

Payson

Pearl

A. W. Rawson

Pekin

Empire

Peoria

Temple

Illinois

Schiller

Peotone

Perry

St. Johns

Clinton

Centennial

Newtown

Mitchell

Pittsfleld

Piper

Plainfield

Plainview

Adams

Sunbeam

Pleasant Hill ...
Pleasant Plains.

Plymouth

Gordon

Mystic Tie

Pontiac

Pontoosuc IHerrick.

Port Byron . .

Potomac

Prairie City.
Pre-emption
Princeton ...
Princeton . . .
Princeville . .

Philo

Potomac

Golden Gate.
Pre-emption

Bureau

Princeton . ..
Princeville ..

644
392
401
503
576
754
814

47
140
723
305
337
368
123
687
420
535
303

40
555
623
314
849
463
226

268
509
613
675
205
416
379
823
145
29
126
15
46
263
335
636
95
13
19
747
714
85
790
608
536
461
529
428
565
700
286
473
187
294
193
436
782
248
755
112
587
360

POSTOFFICE.

Prophetstown....

Quincy

Quincy

Quincy

Quincy

Raleigh ,

Ramsey

Rankin

Rantoul

Raritan

Ravmond

Red Bud

Richmond

Ridge Farm

Ridgway

Rio

Riverside

Riverton

Robinson

Rochelle

Rochester

Rockf ord

Rockford

Rockford

Rock Island

Rock Island

Rockport

Rockton

Roodhouse

Roscoe

Roseville

Rossville

Rushville

Rutland

Sadorus

Saint Charles...

Saint Elmo

Salem

Sandwich

San Jose

Saunemin

Savanna

Say brook

Scott Land

Scottville

Seaton

Seneca

Shabbona

Shannon

Shawneetown . . .

Sheffield

Shelby ville

Sheldon

Sheridan

Shipman

Shirley

Siblev

Sidell

Sidney

Somonauk

Sorento

Sparland

Sparta

Springfield

Springfield

Springfield

Springfield

Spring Hill

Prophetstown

Bodley

Herman

Quincy

Lambert

Raleigh

Ramsey

Rankin

Rantoul

Raritan

Raymond

Red Bud

Richmond

Ridge Farm

Ridgway

Rio

Riverside

Riverton Union.

Robinson

Horicon

Rochester

Rockford

Star in the East
E. F. W. Ellis....

Trio

Rock Island

Rockport

Rockton

E. M. Husted

Roscoe

Roseville

Rossville

Rushville

Rutland

J. R. Gorin

Unity

Saint Elmo

Marion

Meteor

San Jose

Saunemin

Mississippi

Cheney's Grove.

Scott Land

Scottville

Charity

Seneca

Shabbona

Shannon

Warren

Ames

Jackson

Sheldon

Sheridan

Shipman

Shirley

Sibley

Sidell

Sidney

Somonauk

Sorento

Sparland

Hope

Springfield

Central

Tyrian

St. Paul's

Bollen ,

293
1

39
296
659
128
405
725
470
727
692
427
143
632
816
685
862
786
250
244
635
102
166
633

57
658
830

74
796

75
519
527
9
477
537

48
769
130
283
645
738
385
468
743
426
838
532
374
490

14
142

53
609
735
212
582
761
798
347
646
J-61
441
162
4

71
333
500
412

24

APPENDIX— PART II.

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF POSTOFFICES— Continued.

POSTOFF1CE.

Spring Valley.... S. M. Dalzell. ,

Staunton Staunton

Steeleville Alma

Sterling Rock River..,

Stewardson Stewarrlson . .

Stockton Plum River. . ,

Stone Fort Stone Fort . . ,

Streator Streator

Stronehurst Stronghurst ,

Sublette Sublette ,

Sullivan Sullivan

Summerneld Sunimerneld ,

Sumner Sumner

Svcamore iSycamore

Tamaroa , Tamaroa

Tampico j Yorktown

Tavlorville [Mound

Temple Hill jTemple Hill. .

Tennessee [Tennessee

Thompsonville. . . iAkin

Thomson {Thomson

Time |Time

Tiskilwa Sharon

Toledo ;Toledo

Tolona Tolono

Tonica Tonica

Toulon

Towanda. ...
Tower Hill...

Tremont

Trenton

Trilla

Troy

Troy Grove . .
Tunnell Hill.

Tuscola

Union

Upper Alton .

Urbana

Utica

Vandalia —

Venice

Vermilion ...

Vermont

Verona

Versailles ...

Victoria

Vienna

Viola

Toulon

Towanda

Tower Hill

Tremont

Trenton

Muddy Point .

Troy

Shiioh

Reynoldsburt

Tuscola

Orion

Franklin

Urbana

Utica

Temperance.

Triple

Stratton

Vermont

Verona

Versailles

A. T. Darrah

Vienna

Viola

82i

497
612
541
554
495
607
847
349
764
342
334
134
207
655
122
701
496
749
559
569
550
884
391
364
93
542
493
462
109
396

5SS

397
419
332
358

25
157
858

16
835
408
116

108
793
150
577

POSTOFFICE.

Virden Virden

Virginia Virginia

Waldron Aroma

Walnut.. ., | Walnut

Walpole iTuscan

Walsh ville Walsh ville . . .

Waltham Waltham

Warren Jo Daviess . . .

Warsaw Warsaw

Washburn Washburn . . .

Washington Taylor

Wataga Wataga

Waterman i Waterman . .

Waterloo Morris

Watseka Watseka

Watson Watson

Wauconda Wauconda . . .

Waukegan Waukegan. . .

Waverlv Waverlv

Wayne City. IC-rel

Wavnesville Wavne

Weldon Weldon

Wenona Wenona

West Chicago Amitv

West Frankfort. . Frankfort . . .

West Point Dills

West Salem [West Salem.

Wheaton • Wheaton

Wheeler Wheeler

Wheeling Vitruvius —

White Hall White Hall . .

Williamsville Lavelv

Willow Hill Cooper

Wilmington Wilmington .

Winchester ! Winchester. .

Windsor [Windsor

Winnebago ! Winnebago . .

Winslow Winslow

Winterrowd Mavo

Woburn Gilham

Wolf Creek Chapel Hill . .

Woodhull Woodhull

Woodstock i Saint Marks .

Wyanet Wyanet

Wvoming Wyoming . . .

Xenia Xe'nia

Yates City j Yates City . . .

York ' York

York ville i Kendall

161
544
378
722

630
475
384
278
257
421

98
291
728
787
446
602
298

78
118
759
172
746
344
472
567
295
866
269
UD

81

80
203
489
208
105
322
745
564
664
809
719
502

63
231
479
485
448
313
471

APPENDIX — PART II.

25

List of Lodges by Districts.

FIRST DISTRICT.

33

160
211
308
314
410
437
524
557
639
66 i
68o
711
726
751
767
774
779
784
797
810
818
836
842
851

UD
UD

Oriental

Waubansia

Cleveland

Ashlar

Pal itine

Mithra

Chicago

Evans

Lessine

Keystone

South Park

Garneld

Providence

Golden Rule

Lounsbury

Triluminar

Lake View

Wright's Grove.

Beacon Light

Normal Park

Tracy . .

Ben Hur

Windsor Park. ..

Fides

Chicago Heights

Metropolitan

Olvmpia

Standard

Equity

LOCATION.

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

Palatine

Chicago

Chicago

Evanston

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

Jefferson

Chicago ..

Barrington

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

Coicago

Chicago Heights.

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

PLACE OF MEETING

78 Monroe St

Masonic Temple

Randolph and Halsted Sts.
Masonic Temple

E. N. Ave. and N. Halsted St.,
Masonic Temple

615-617 North Clark St

615-617 North (.lark St

Washington Ave and ■ 5th St .
1250 West Madison St

Masonic Temple .

227 92d street

N. Clark St. and Chicago Ave . .

615 North Clark St

Norwood Park

69th St. and Stewart Ave

10 d St. near Walden Parkway.

Milwaukee and North Aves

41-76 street

700 119 street

42d Ave. and W. Van Bur en St..
4229 Cottage Grove Ave

SECOND DISTRICT.

81
182
271
310
393
411
47C<
526
61i
612
669
690
7 !«-',
731

780
789
800
813
819
839
843
854
862
865
UD

LOCATION.

Vitruv us

Germania

Blaney

Dearborn

Hlair

Hesperia

Pleiades

Covenant

Union Park. . . .

Apollo

Herder

Englewood

Calumet

Harbor

Mystic Star

Mizpah

Grand Crossing.

Siloam

Auburn P;>rk ..

Kenwood

Humboldt Park

Columbian

Berwyn

Park

Brighton Park. .

Riverside

St. Cecilia

Corner-Stone .. .

Wheeling.

Chicago.

Chicago.

Chicago.

Chicago

PLACE OF MEETING.

6i5 North Clark St.

78 Monroe St

3118 Forest Ave ....
78 Monroe St

Chicago 178 Monroe St

473 West Madison St

Masonic Temple

473 and 475 W. Madison St.

3H8 Forest Ave

358 Blue Island Ave

Chicago
Chicago
Chicago
Chicago
Chicago

Chicago |63d and Yale Sts

Blue Island

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago. ..

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

Berwyn

Chicago

Chicago

Riverside. .
Chicago —
Chicago... .

91st St. and Commt rcial Ave.

6 'd and Yale Sts

4341 South Halsted St

76th St. Near Dobson Ave

1249 Madison St

79th and Sherman Sts

4229 Cottage Grove Ave

913 West North Ave

1812 West 23d St

Clark St. and Greenleaf Ave..
Hart and Archer Aves

Masonic Temple

26

APPENDIX — PART II.

LIST OF LODGES BY DISTRICTS.— Continued.
THIRD DISTRICT.

LOCATION.

141

809

277
311
409
422

50S
540
611
613
674
697
717
739
765
770

783
795
804
815
832
841
850
855
863
869
UD

Garden Citv

W. B. Warren

Accordia

Kilwinning

T. J. Turner

Landmark

Home

> >ak Park

Lincoln Park

D. C. Cregier

Waldeck

Richard Cole

Arcana

Lakeside

Palace

LaGrange

Ravenswood

Constantia

Myrtle

Kensington

Lawn

Magic City

Woodlawn Park. .

Austin

King Oscar

St. Andrews

May wood

William McKinlev

Chicago

Chicago...
Chicago...
Chicago —

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

Oak Park..

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago —

Chicago

Chicago

LaGrange ,

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago. ..
Harvey . .
Chicago...
Chicago. ..
Chicago. ..
Chicago. .
May wood.
Chicago. . .

Masonic Temple

Masonic Temple ■

Halsted St. and North Ave.

Masonic Temple

Masonic Temple

4229 Cot tage Grove Ave

3118 Forest Ave

PLACE OF MltETIHG.

615-617 N. Clark St

404 and 406 Milwaukee Ave.

44th and State St

2941 Archer Ave

Halsted and Randolph Sts.

3120 Forest Ave

Pullman

Wilson St.&E.Ravenswo'dPark

70 Adams St

Irving Park

11100 Michigan Ave

3620 West 63d St

2.'5 64thSt

Austin

Masonic Temple.
70 Adams St

FOURTH DISTRICT.

48

no

117

139

190
254!
359!
404,
443!
522!

63
138|
143!
158
1691
309;
358,
604 1

78
115
127
298
492
676
827

Unity

Jerusalem Temple

Elgin

Geneva

Dundee

Aurora

Blackberry

Batavia

Hampshire

Monitor

St. Marks

Marengo

Richmond ,

McHenry ,

Nunda

Harvard

Orion

Hebron

Waukegau

Rising sun

Antioch

Wauconda

Llbertvville

A. O. Fay

ISequoit

LOCATION.

St. Charles

Aurora

Elgin

Geneva

Dundee

Aurora

Elburn

Batavia

Hampshire

Elgin

Woodstock

Marengo

Richmond

McHenry

Nunda

Harvard

Union

Hebron

Waukegan

Gray's Lake....

Millburn

Wauconda

Libertyville

Highland Park
Antioch

Kane

Kane

Kane

Kane. ...

Kane

Kane

Kane

Kane

Kane

Kane

McHenry .
McHenry .
McHenry ,
McHenry ,
McHenry .
McHenry .
McHenry .
McHenry .

Lake ,

Lake

Lake ,

Lake ,

Lake ,

Lake ,

Lake ,

APPENDIX — PART II.

27

LIST OF LODGES BY DISTRICTS— Continued.
FIFTH DISTRICT.

60 Belvidere

575 Capron

74 Rockton

75 Roscoe

102 Rockford

145JA. W. Rawson

166'Star-in-the-East.

l73,Cherry Valley

302 Durand

633|E. F.W.Ellis

745| Winnebago

97jExcelsior

170iEvergreen

174 Lena

414|Evening Star

564|Winslow

687!Orangeville

823 Pearl

LOCATION.

Belvidere

Capron

Rockton

Roscoe

Rockford

Pecatonica

Rockford

Cherry Valle}'

Durarid

Rockford

Winnebago . . .

Freeport

Freeport

Lena

Davis

Winslow

Orangeville . .
Pearl City ....

Boone

Boone

Winnebago.
Winnebago.
Winnebago.
Winnebago.
Winnebago.
Winnebago.
Winnebago.
Winnebago.
Winnebago.
Stephenson.
Stephenson.
Stephenson.
Stephenson.
Stephenson.
Stephenson.
Stephenson.

SIXTH DISTRICT.

NO.

NAME

LOCATION.

COTJNl'Y.

36

273

Martin

278

491

East Dubuque

554

859

188

Mt. Carroll

Carroll

345
385

Milledgeville

Savanna

Carroll

4°3

490

Shannon

Carroll

559

867

Carroll

189

Fulton

Prophetstown

993

S^l

Bollen

419

566

6f

667

750

Lyndon

SEVENTH DISTRICT.

187
244
274
320
420
505
7
146
178

LOCATION.

Samuel H. Davis Mt. Morris..

Mystic Tie Polo

Horicon Rochelle . ..

Byron | Byron ,

Creston Creston

Oregon Oregon

Meridian Sun iHolcomb

Friendship I Dixon

Lee Centre I Lee Centre .

Illinois Central j Amboy ,

Ogle.
Ogle.
Ogle.
Ogle.
Ogle.
Ogle.
Ogle.
Lee .
Lee .
Lee .

28

APPENDIX — PART II.

LIST OF LODGES BY DISTRICTS— Continued.
SEVENTH DISTRICT— Continued.

NO.

NAME.

LOCATION.

COUNTY.

?05

?64

?8->

349

Sublette

5SI

134

De Kalb

144

UeKalb

DeKalb

De Kalb

?W

De Kalb ..

«8H

De Kalb

301

De Kalb

374

De Kalb

409

De Kalb

646

De Kalb

7?8

De Kalb

857

Bovd D

De Kalb

EIGHTH DISTRICT.

303
393
498
471

65
269
472
894

42
175
21 '8
262
536
538
636
7U4
763
194
528
573
75?
896

Raven

Orient

Sunbeam...

Kendall

Euclid

Wheaton

Amity

Grove

Mt. Joliet ...
Matteson . . .
Wilmington
Channahon.
Plainfield. ..
Lockport...

Peotone

Braidwood .

Crete

Cedar

Minooka

Gardner —

Verona

Mazon

LOCATION.

Oswego

Lisbon

Piano

Yorkville

N perville

Wheaton

WesL Chicago

Downers Grove . .

Joliet

Joliet

Wilmington

Channabon

Plainfield

Lockport

Peotone

Braidwood

Crete

Morris

Minooka

Gardner

Verona

Mazon

Kendall.
Kendall.
Kendall.
Kendall.
Du Page.
Du Page.
Du Page.
Du Page.

Will

Will

Will

Will

Will

Will

Will

Will

Will

Grundy .
Grunny .
Grundy .
Grundy . .
Grundy ..

NINTH DISTRICT.

13

in

67

176

St. John's..

Occidental.

Acacia

Mendota ...
183 Meridian . .
194l Freedom..

364 Tunica

384 Waltham..

397JShiloh

!17 Marseilles .
it; Kutland ...
532 Seneca
555i Humboldt .

LOCATION.

Peru

Ottawa

La Salle ...
Mendota . ..
Earlville...
Freedom . .
Tonica . . ..
Waltham ..
Troy Grove
Marseilles
Rutl 'nd ...

Seneca

Ottawa

La Salle.
La Salle.
La Salle.
La -Salle.
La Salle.
La Salle.
lLa Salle
La Salle.
La Salle.
La Salle.
La Salle.
La Saile.
La Salle.

APPENDIX — PART II.

29

LIST OP LODGES BY DISTRICTS— Continued.
NINTH DISTRICT— Continued.

NO.

NAME.

LOCATION.

COUNTY.

558

Streator

Sheridan

Utica

La Salle

607

La Salle

735

858

870

Pontiac

294
351

Tarbolton

Livingston

371

Dwight

401

Odell

Odell

539

Chatsworth

55°

Livingston

614

738

Saunemin

886

TENTH DISTRICT.

LOCATION.

112

ua

231

Bureau
Ames . ..
Wyanet .

270iLevi Lusk.

383
399

550
587

803
805
814
103

61
119
344
415
441

93
479
501
514

La Moilie

Buda

Sharon

Princeton . ..

Walnut

Neponset

S.M.ualzell..

Ohio

Magnolia

Lacon

Henry

Wenona

Lawn Ridge.

Sparland

Toulon

Wyoming ...

Stark

Bradford

Princeton

Sheffield

Wyanet

Arlington ...

La Moilie

Buda

Tiskilwa

Princeton

Walnut

Neponset

Spring Valley

Ohio

Magnolia

Lacon

Henry

Wenona

Lawn Ridge..

Sparland

Toulon

Wyoming

La Fayette.. .
Bradford

Bureau . .
Bureau . .
Bureau . .
Bureau . .
Bureau . .
Bureau . .
Bureau . .
Bureau . .
Bureau . .
Bureau . .
Bureau . .
Bureau . .
Putnam .
Marshall
Marshall
Marshall
Marshall
Marshall
Stark ....

Stark

Stark

Stark ....

ELEVENTH DISTRICT.

LOCATION.

49 Cambridge . .

92 1 Stewart

159Kewanee . . . .

243jGalva

433 snnawan. . . .
50:J Woodhull .. .
53?i Sherman
680 Clement

57 Trio

69 Eureka

319|Doric

436IPhilo

516; Andalusia...
543! Cordova. ...

547 Valley

658Rock Island.

Cambridge .

Geneseo

Kewanee

Galva

Atkinson . . .
Woodhull...

Orion

Colono

Rock Island.

Milan

Moline

Port Byron.
Andalusia. . .

Cordova

Coal Valley .
Rock Island.

Henry

Henry

Henry

Henry

Henry

Henry

Henry

Henry

Rock Island
Rock Island
Rock Island
Rock Island
Rock Island
Rock Island
Rock Island
Rock Island

30

APPENDIX — PART II.

LIST OF LODGES BY DISTRICTS-CWimted.
ELEVENTH DISTRICT-Continued.

678
59
113
2&S
367

838

Illinois City..
Mew Boston..
Robert Burns

Aledo

Oxford

Viola

Pre-emption.
Charitv

LOCATION.

Buffalo Prairie

New Boston

Keithsburg

Aledo

New Windsor .

Viol i

Pre-emption...
Seaton

Rock Island .

Mercer

Mercer

Mercer

Mercer

Mercer

Mercer

Mercer

TWELFTH DISTRICT.

LOCATION.

17 Macomb

233 Bladinsville

248 Golden Gatr

307 T.J. Pickett

327 Industry

496!Oolchester

f>72!Bardolph

617 Good Hope

lOOl Astoria

104ji.ewistown

H6!Vermont

192 Karmington

2i3lpava

253 Avon Harmony.

350
534

734

84*

Pairview

Cuba

Morning Star.

London

Rushville

465:Huntsville

648,Camden .

766 Littleton

Macomb

Bladinsville .
Prairie City..

Bushnell

Industry

Colchester

Bardolph

Good Hope . . .

Astoria

Lewistown ...

Vermont

Farmington .

Ipava

Avon

Fairview

Cuba

Canton

London Mills.
Rushville ... ,
Huntsville ...

Camden

Littleton

McDonough.
McDonough.
McDonough.
McDonough
McDonough.
McDonough.
McDonough
McDonough.

Fulton

Fulton

Fulton

Fulton

Fulton

Fulton

Fulton

Fulton

Fulton

Fulton

Schuyler ...
Schuyler . ..
Schuyler . . .
Schuyler ...

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT.

66
165

185
291
330
837

44*
530

Pacific

Alpha

Abingdon

Wataga

Altona

Oneida

Yates City...

Maquon

584lVesper ....

685 Rio

793 A T. Darrah.
37
51 S

519
619
702
183

727

7::?
bir

Monmouth

Abraham Lincoln.

Roseville

Berwick

Alexandria

Oquawka

Raritan

Carman

Stronghurst

LOCATION.

Knoxville .. .
Galesburg.. .
Abingdon ...
Wataga.. ...

Altona

Oneida

Yates City...

Maquon

Galesburg . . .

Rio

Victoria

Monmouth .
Kirkwood ...

Roseville

Cameron....

Alexis

Oquawka

Raritan

Carman

Stronghurst

Knox

Knox ,

Knox

Knox

Knox

Knox

Knox

Knox

Knox

Knox

Knox

Warren —

Warren

Warren

Warren

Warren

Henderson ,
Henderson .
Henderson .
Henderson ,

APPENDIX — PART II.

31

LIST OF LODGES BY DISTRICTS— Continued.
FOURTEENTH DISTRICT.

15
46
109

863

33n

3(50
363
748
246
247
3U6
421
29
98
126
132
156
31

462
622
641

Peoria

Temple

Lancaster

George Washington.

Illinois

Schiller

Princeville

Horeb

Alta

El Paso

Rob Morris

Wm. C. Hobbs

VVashburn

Pekin

Taylor

Empire

Mackinaw

Delavan

Groveland

Tremont

Hopedale

Comet

LOCATION.

Peoria

Peoria

Glasford

Chillicothe.,

Peoria ,

Peoria

Princeville.

Elmwood

Alta

El Paso

Minonk ,

Eureka

Washburn..

Pekin

Washington

Pekin

Mackinaw ..
Delavan ....

Morton

Tremont. ...
Hopedale...
Minier

Peoria

Peoria

Peoria

Peoria.....

Peoria

Peoria

Peoria

Peoria

Peoria

Woodford .
Woodford .
Woodford.
Woodford
Tazewell ..
Tazewell ..
Tazewell ..
Tazewell ..
Tazewell..
Tazewell ..
Tazewell ..
Tazewell ..
Tazewell . .

FIFTEENTH DISTRICT.

43
221
351
292
468
469
483
5i 2

5 1?
582
656
673
737
742
785
799
84
172
261
710
746
820
416
608
631
733
761
811

Bloomington ..

Le Roy .

Heyworth

Chenoa

Cheneys Grove

McLean ,

Lexington

Wade Barney..

Towanda

Shirley

Mozart

Normal

Arrowsmith . .

Danvers

Stanford

Colfax

De Witt

Wayne

Amon

Farmer City ..

Weldon ,

Henderson

Paxton

Piper

Norton

Gibson

Sibley

Melvin

Bloomington

LeRoy

Heyworth

Chenoa

Saybrook —

McLean

Lexington...
Bloomington

Towanda

Shirley

Bloomington

Normal

Arrowsmith.
Danvers —

Stanford

Colfax

Clinton

Wavnesville

De Witt

Parmer City

Weldon

Kenney

Paxton. .'

Piper City...

Cabery

Gibson City.

Sibley

Melvin

McLean..

McLean..

McLean..

McLean..

McLean.

McLean..

McLean..

McLean..

McLean..

McLean..

McLean..

McLean.

McLean..

McLean..

McLean.

McLean..

DeWitt..

DeWitt..

DeWitt..

DeWitt..

DeWitt..

DeWitt..

Ford ....

Ford ....

Ford ....

Ford ....

Ford

Ford ... .

32

APPENDIX — PART II.

LIST OP LODGES BY DISTRICTS-Confo'rmed.
SIXTEENTH DISTRICT.

LOCATION.

378
389
481
168
305
316
429
446
506
591
609
634
6SS

84n

38
134
265
285
527
590
632
709
714
725
782
798
844

Aroma

Kankakee

Momence

Milt'ord

Onarga

Abraham Jonas

Chebanse

Watseka

O. H. Miner

Gilman

Sheldon

Buckley

Clifton

Martinton

Olive Branch...

Russell

Vermilion

Catlin

Rossville

Pairmount

Ridge Farm

Star

Newtown

Rankin

Potomac

Sidell

Hopewell

Waldron

Kankakee ...

Momence

Milford

Onarga

Loda

Chebanse

Watseka

Iroquois

Gilman

Sheldon

Bucklev

Clifton!

Martinton —

Danville

Georgetown .

Indianola

Catlin

Rossville

Fairmount...
Ridge Farm.
Hoopeston. ..

Pilot

Rankin

Potomac

Sidell

Hope

Kankakee .
Kankakee .
Kankakee .
Iroquois . . .
Iroquois . . .
Iroquois . . .
Iroquois . . .
Iroquois . . .
Iroquois . . .
Iroquois . . .
Iroquois . .
Iroquois . . .
Iroquois ...
Iroquois ...
Vermilion .
Vermilion .
Vermilion .
Vermilion .
Vermilion
Vermilion .
Vermilion
Vermilion ,
Vermilion .
Vermilion
Vermilion
Vermilion
Vermilion

SEVENTEENTH DISTRICT.

157
199
220
240

347
391

47H

5S

57-1

Urbana

Homer -

Mahomet

Western Star

Sidney

Tolono

Rantoul

J.R.Gorin

Pera —

747 Centennial

754,Ogden

791iBroadlands ..

801 Sangamon . ..

332|Tuscola

366 Areola

369 Newman

440|Camargo

837lHindsboro

77 Prairie

l48,Bloomfield....

268 Paris

280 Kansas

408 stratton

74:5 Scott Land

829 Edgar

35iCharleston

l.*9| Wabash

219!Oakland

260|Mattoon

391 1
396
788

Ashmore

Muddy Point.,
Lerna

698 Ilutton.

LOCATION.

Urbana

Homer

Mahomet

Champaign.

Sidney ,

Tolono

Rantoul ,

Sadorous

Ludlow

hilo

Ogden

Broadlands.

Fisher

Tuscola

Areola

Newman

Camargo —
Hindsboro..

Paris

Chrisman...

Paris

Kansas

Vermilion ..
Scott Land.

Hume

Charleston. .

Etna

Oakland

Mattoon

Ashmore ...

Trilla

Lerna

Diona

Champaign. .
Champaign. .
Champaign.
Champaign..
Champaign..
Champaign..
Champaign.
Champaign. .
Champaign. .
Champaign. .
Champaign. .
Champaign. .
Champaign. .

Douglas

Douglas

Douglas

Douklas

Douglas

Edgar

Edgar

Edgar

Edgar

Edgar

Edgar

Edgar

Coles

Coles

Coles

Coles

Coles

Coles

Coles

Coles

APPENDIX — PART II.

33

LIST OF LODGES BY DISTRICTS -Continued.
EIGHTEENTH DISTRICT.

58
365
600
661
773
812
228

595

764

312
431
454

467
682

un

87
165
210
741
808
853

Fraternal —

Bement ,

Cerro Gordo .

Atwood

Mansfield

DeLand ,

Lovington.. .
Miles Hart.. .

Sullivan

Arthur

Macon

Ionic

Summit

Maroa

South Macon
Blue Mound.

Argenta

Mt. Pulaski..

Atlanta

Logan

New Holland

Cornland

Latham

LOCATION.

Monticello...

Bement

Cerro Gordo.

Atwood

Mansfield

De Land

Lovington. ..

Gays

Sullivan

Arthur

Decatur

Decatur

Harristown. .

Maroa

Macon

Blue Mound .

Argenta

Mt. Pulaski..

Atlanta

Lincoln

New Holland

Cornland

Latham

Piatt

Piatt

Piatt

Piatt

Piatt

Piatt... .
Moultrie.
Moultrie
Moultrie.
Moultrie.
Macon ...
Ma^on ...
Macon ...
Macon . . .
Macon . . .
Macon . . .
Macon ...
Logan...
Logan...
Logan

Logan

Logan . . .
Logan...

NINETEENTH DISTRICT.

LOCATION.

Havana

Mason City

Manito

San Jose

Clinton

Greenview •.

Springfield

Central

Lavely

Tyrian

Ark and Archor.

Loami

St. Pauls

Illiopolis

Chacham

Dawson

Rochester

675lPawnee

700' Pleasant Plains.

76ijVan Meter

786jRiverton Union.

23iO*ss

544! Virginia

724|Chandlerville ...

403

-it';
646

19

65.°,

4

71
803
333
364
450
500
521
523
556
635

Havana

Mason City

Manito

San Jose

Petersburg

Greenview

Springfield

Springfield

Willi imsville

Springfield

Auburn

Loami

Springfield

Illiopolis

Chatham

Dawson

Rochester

Pawnee

Pleasant Plains.

Cantrall

Riverton

Beardstown

Virginia

Chandlerville

Mason

Mason

Mason

Mason

Menard

Menard

Sangamon

Sangamon

Sangamon ,

Sangamon ,

Sangamon

Sangamon

Sangamon

Sangamon

Sangamon

Sangamon

Sangamon

Sangamon

Sangamon

Sangamon

Sangamon

Cass

Cass

Cass

34

APPENDIX — PART II.

LIST OF LODGES BY DISTRICTS -Continued.
TWENTIETH DISTRICT.

44

L08

43 i

3

52
lis
346
3s-i
432
570
616
105
829
4_'t

34
45
95

21 s
275
353
373
388
453
565
569
790
806
821
830

Hardin

Versailles

Kendrick

Harmony

Benevolent

Waverly

N. D. Morse . . .

Gill

Murray ville ...
Jacksonville . .

Wadley

Winchester . . .
Manchester .. .

Exeter

Bluffs

Barry

Griggsville

Perry

New Salem

Milton

Kinderhook ...
Chambersburg

El Dara

New Hartford.
Pleasant Hill..

Time

Pittsfield

Nebo

New Canton...
Rockport

LOCATION.

Mt Sterling ...

Versailles

Mound Station
Jacksonville ...

Meredosia

Waverly

Concord

Lynnville

Murray ville ...
Jacksonville...

Franklin

Winchester ...
Manchester ...

Exeter

Bluffs

Barry

Griggsville ....

Perry

New Salem

Milton

Kinderhook ...
Chambersburg

El Dara

New Hartford.
Pleasant Hill..

Time

Pittsfield

Nebo

New Canton...
Rockport

Brown . .

Brown . .

Brown .

Morgan.,

Morgan.,

Morgan.,

Morgan.

Morgan.,

Morgan.

Morgan.,

Morgan.,

Scott

Scott....

Scott....

Scott.. ..

Pike

Pike

Pike

Pike

Pike

Pike

Pike

Pike

Pike

Pike

Pike

Pike

Pike

Pike

Pike....

TWENTY-FIRST DISTRICT.

l
39

11 i
135
14?
227
266
267
296
297
379
380
449
529 i
659 1
201
193
195
235
238
257
286
295
318
401
486
618
o.s:<
915

Bodley

Herman

Marcelline

Lima

Clayton

Columbus

Kingston

La Prairie

Quincv

Benjamin

Payson

Liberty

Mendon

Adams

Lambert

Hancock

Herrick

La Harpe

Dallas City ....
Black Hawk...

Warsaw

Plymouth

Dills

J. L. Anderson

Denver

Bo wen

jBasco

Burnside

Ililvaston

LOCATION.

Quincy

Quincy

Marcelline.. .

Lima

Clayton

Columbus ...
Fairweather

Golden

Quincy

Camp Point. .

Payson

Liberty

Mendon

Plainville

Quincy

Carthage

Pontoosuc . .

La Harpe

Dallas City ..

Hamilton

Warsaw

Plymouth ...
West Point..

Augusta

Denver

Bo wen

Basco

Burnside.....
Elvaston

Adams.. .

Adams.. .

Adams.. .

Adams . . .

Adams..

Adams.. .

Adams . .

Adams.. .

Adams...

Adams.. .

Adams.. .

Adams.. .

Adams...

Adams.. .

Adams.. .

Hancock.

Hancock.

Hancock.

Hancock.

Hancock.

Hancock.

Hancock .

Hancock.

Hancock.

Hancock.

Hancock.

Hancock.

Hancock.

Hancock.

APPENDIX — PART IT.

35

LIST OP LODGES BY DISTRICTS— Continued.
TWENTY- SECOND DISTRICT.

LOCATION.

792
856
50
80
129
197
796
341

Calhoun ,

West Gate

Carrollton

Whitehall ,

Greenfield

King Solomon's..

E. M. Husted....

Full Moon

394 Jerseyville

592 Fieldon ,

761 Mt. Nebo

151 [Bunker Hill

152 Fidelity

161 Virden

171 Girard

177 Staunton

212 Shipman ,

214 Gillespie.

Hibbard

Scottville

Chesterfield

Plain view

Palmyra

249
426

4 45

461
463

UDIModesto

Hardin

Hamburg...
Carrollton..
Whitehall ..
Greenfield ..

Kane

Roodhouse..

Grafton

Jerseyville..

Fieldon

Carlinville .
Bunker Hill

Medora

Virden

Girard

Staunton

Shipman....
Gillespie....

Brighton

Scottville..
Chesterfield
Plainview ..
Palmyra....
Modesto

Calhoun...
Calhoun ..

Greene

Greene

Greene

Greene

Greene

Jersey

Jersey

Jersey

Macoupin.
Macoupin.
Macoupin.
Macoupin.
Macoupin.
Macoupin.
Macoupin.
Macoupin.
Macoupin.
Macoupin.
Macoupin.
Macoupin.
Macoupin.
Macoupin.

TWENTY-THIRD DISTRICT.

51
236

255
455
45(3
475
517
070
692
122
226
340
451
585
623
047
681
53
180
322
392
493
541
706
831

Mount Moriah
Charter Oak..

Donnelson

Irving

Nokomis

Walshville —

Litchfield

Fillmore

Raymond

Mound

Pana

Kedron

Bromwell ....

Fisher

Locust

Blueville

Morrisonville.

Jackson

Moweaqua —

Windsor

Oconee

Tower Hill....
Stewardson...

Joppa

Findlay

LOCATION.

Hillsboro

Litchfield

Donnellson

Irving

Nokomis

Walshville

Litchfield

Fillmore

Raymond

Taylorville

Pana

Mount Auburn
Assumption ...

Grove City

Owaneco

Edinburg

Morrisonville .
Shelby ville....

Moweaqua

Windsor

Oconee

Tower Hill

Stewardson.. . .

Cowden

Findlay

Montgomery..
Montgomery..
Montgomery-
Montgomery..
Montgomery.
Montgomery.,
Montgomery.,
Montgomery.,
Montgomery.

Christian

Christian

Christian

Christian

Christian

Christian

Christian

Christian

Shelby

Shelby

Shelby

Shelby

Shelby

Shelby

Shelby

Shelby

36

APPENDIX — PART II.

LIST OP LODGES BY DISTRICTS— Continued.
TWENTY-POURTB DISTRICT.

125'Greenup

279Neoga

5H0 Hazel Dell

83-l|Toledo

133 Marshall

313 York

•i i- ( lasey ,

603 Clark

620 Newhope

136 Hutsonville

260 R< ibinson ,

348 K'ussellville

644 Oblong City

666 Crawford ,

756 Hardinsville

8491 Palestine

216|Newton

489 Cooper

IWheeler

140 oniey

302' Noble

509 Parkersburg

164 Edward Dobbins

334 Sumner

386 Bridgeport

44~; S. D. Monroe ....

LOCATION.

Greenup

Neoga

Hazel Dell

Toledo

Marshall

York

Casey

Martinsville. .

Cohn

Hutsonville

Robinson

Flat Rock

Oblong

Eaton

Hardinsville...

Palestine

Newton

Cooper

Wheeler

Oiney

Noble

Parkersbure . .
Lawrenceville .

Sumner

Bridgeport

Birds

Cumberland.
Cumberland.
Cumberland.
Cumberland.

Clark

Clark

Clark

Clark

Clark

Crawford
Crawford ....

Crawford

Crawford

Crawford

Crawford

Crawford

Jasper

Jasper

Jasper

Richland

Richland

Richland

Lawrence....
Lawrence. . . .
Lawrence. . . .
Lawrence

TWENTY-FIFTH DISTRICT.

LOCATION.

196
204
485
488
691
149
217
484
525
533
578
602
664
ere,
16
405
601
769
130
201
398
BOS
510
613

Louisville ....

Flora ,

Xenia

ClayCity ,

lola

Effingham

Mason ,

Edgewood ...

Delia ,

Altamount. ..
Prairie City.

Watson ,

Mayo

Beecher City
Temperance ,

Ramsey

Farina

St. Elmo

Marion

Centralia

Kinmundy .. .

Odin ,.

J. D. Moody..
Patoka

Louisville

Flora

Xenia

Clay City

Iola ,

Emngham...,

Mason

Edgewood

Elliottstown.
Altamount.. .

Montrose

Watson

Winterrowd
Beecher City
Vandalia ...

Ramsey

Farina

St. Elmo

Salem

Centralia

Kinmundy...

Odin

Iuka

Patoka

Clay

Clay

Clay

Clay

Clay

Emngham.

Effingham.

Effingham.

Emngham.

Emngham

Effingham.

Effingham.

Effingham.

Effingham.

Fayette....

Fayette..- .

Fayette....

Fayette

Marion

Marion

Marion

Marion

Marion

Marion

APPENDIX — PART II.

37

LIST OF LODGES BY DISTRICTS— Continued.
TWENTY-SIXTH DISTRICT.

No

245
473
809
8611

79 '
109,

25

27 !

99
355
406
560
583
588
712
835

LOCATION.

Greenville

Gordon

Gillham

Sorento

Scott

Trenton

Franklin

Piasa

Edwardsville

Marine

Bethalto

Madison ,

Highland

Troy

Collinsville..
iTriple

Greenville

Pocahontas...

Woburn

Sorento

Carlyle

Trenton

Upper Alton.

Alton

Edwardsville

Marine

Bethalto

New Douglas

Highland

Troy ,

Collinsville..
Venice

Bond

Bond

Bond

Bond

Clinton..

Clinton..,

Madison

Madison .

Madison ,

Madison

Madison

Madison

Madison

M adison

Madison

Madison

TWENTY-SEVENTH DISTRICT.

LOCATION.

24

no

342
S61

418
504
676
852

474

787

72
86

162

427
497

St. Clair

Lebanon

Summerfield.

Douglas

Preeburg

East St. Louis

O'Fallon

Gothic

Columbia

Morris

Chester

Kaskaskia

Hope

Red Bud

Alma

Belleville

Lebanon ■

Summerfield.
Muscoutah . . .

Freeburg

East St. Louis

O'Fallon

East St. Louis

Columbia

Waterloo

Chester

Evansville

Sparta

Red Bud

Steeleville... .

St. Clair . .
St. Clair..
St. Clair .
St. Clair . .
St. Clair ..
St. Clair ..
St. Clair ..
St. Clair..

Monroe

Monroe

Randolph .
Randolph
Randolph.
Randolph.
Randolph .

TWENTY-EIGHTH DISTRICT.

LOCATION.

55

153

31
868
096
721

64
667
705
711
749

85
807
234

Washington.

Clay

Mt. Vernon .

Jefferson

Belle Rive...

Rome

Benton

Frankfort...

Ewing

Goode

Akin

Mitchell

Tamaroa ....
Du Quoin. ...

Nashville

Ashley

Mt. Vernon

Opdyke

Belle Rive

Dix

Benton

West Frankfort .

Ewing

Brayfield

Thompsonville. .
Pinckneyville.. .

Tamaroa

Du Quoin

Washington
Washington.

Jefferson

Jefferson

Jefferson

Jefferson

Franklin

Franklin

Franklin

Franklin

Franklin

Perry

Perry

Perry

38

APPENDIX. — PART II.

LIST OF LODGES BY DISTRICTS— Continued.
TWENTY-EIGHTH DISTRICT— Continued.

NO.

NAME.

LOCATION.

COUNTY.

241

De Soto

"H7

De Soto

434

CIS

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ST!

80

4=18

487

Chapel Hill

Wolf Creek . .

603

710

<m

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817

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206
331
460

713
751)
356
866
239
752
200
272

C,(iS

677

71S
137
630
807
128
325
195
084
730

14

230
723
816

Fairfield

Mount Erie. .•
Jeffersonville
Johnsonville .

Orel

Hermitage ...
West salem..
Mount Carmel

Allendale

Sheba

Carmi

Burnt Prairie

Enfield

May

Polk

Tuscan

Roval

Raleigh

Harrisburg...
Stone Port . . .

Gallatia

Eldorado

Equality

Warren

New Haven. . .

Omaha

Ridgway

LOCATION.

Fairfield ,

Mt. Erie ,

Jeffersonville .
Johnsonville..
Wayne City . .

Albion

West Salem . .
Mount Carmel

Allendale

Grayville

Carmi

Burnt Prairie

Enfield

Norris City —
McLeansboro .

Walpole

Macedonia

Raleigh

Harrisburg

Stone Fort

Gallatia

Eldorado

Equality

Shawnee town-
New Haven. . .

Omaha

Ridgway

Wayne

Wayne

Wayne

Wayne

Wayne. ..
Edwards..
Edwards.
Wabash. . .
Wabash. . .

White

White

White

White

White

Hamilton.
Hamilton.
Hamilton.

Saline

Saline

Saline

Saline

Saline

Gallatin ..
Gallatin ..
Gallatin ..
Gallatin ..
Gallatin . .

APPENDIX — PART II.

39

LIST OF LODGES BY DISTRICTS— Continued.
THIRTIETH DISTRICT.

276 Elizabeth

444 Cave-in-Rock .

794'Tadmor

13l!Golconda

672;Eddyville

701 Temnle Hill...

771 Bay City

91 j Metropolis

232 Farmers

336 New Columbia

150|Vienna

339|Saline

419|Reynoldsburg.

772 NewBurnside.

778;Gurney

822 Belknap

lll'jonesboro

466iCobden

520 Anna

581;Dongola

627| Union

840 Alto Pass

47Caledonia

660 Grand Chain . .

562,Trinity

237,Cairo

LOCATION.

Elizabethtown. ..

Cave-in-Rock

Karber's Ridge . .

Golconda

Eddyville

Temple Hill

Hamletsburg

Metropolis

Brookport

New Columbia....

Vienna

Goreville

Tunnel Hill

New Burnside. . . .
New County Line

Belknap

Jonesboro

Cobden

Anna

Dongola

Lick Creek

Alto Pass

Olmsted

New Grand Chain

Mound City

Cairo

Hardin

Hardin

Hardin

Pope

Pope

Pope

Pope

Massac

Massac

Massac

Johnson

Johnson

Johnson. .

Johnson

Johnson

Johnson

Union

Union

Union

Union

Union

Union

Pulaski

Pulaski

Pulaski... .
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APPENDIX
PART III

REVISION

OF

GRAND LODGE BY-LAWS

As Reported by

COMMITTEE

October, 1904

BY-LAWS OF THE
MOST WORSHIPFUL GRAND LODGE

Of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons.
OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS.
Adopted October 6, l r&'/4-
Revised to

PART 1.

Relative to the Grand Lodge.

Article i.

CONVENING AND COMMITTEES.

Section i. An annual communication of the Grand Lodge shall be
held in the city of Chicago on the first Tuesday in October in each year,
commencing at 10 o'clock a. m., when if the requirements of Article 4 and
Section 1, Article 9, of the constitution are complied with, the Grand Lodge
may proceed to exercise the powers defined in the constitution, and trans-
act such business and perform such duties, conformable to these by-laws,
as may properly come before it : Provided, that a report from the Com-
mittee on Credentials showing a constitutional number of lodges repre-
sented shall precede any legislative action.

Sec. 2. At each annual communication of the Grand Lodge, as soon
as practicable after it shall be convened, the Grand Master shall announce
the names of the brethren appointed to serve, during the session, on the
following committees, viz. :

1. A Committee on Credentials.

2. A Committee on Petitions.

3. A Committee on Obituaries.

4. A Committee on Grand Master's Annual Report.
Each of which shall consist of three members.

Sec. 3. Before the close of each annual communication of the Grand
Lodge the Grand Master shall appoint the following standing committees,
to serve for the ensuing Masonic year, viz. :

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1. A Committee on Masonic Jurisprudence.

2. A Committee on Appeals and Grievances.

3. A Committee on Returns and Work of Chartered Lodges.

4. A Committee on Returns and Work of Lodges Under Dispensation.
Each of which shall consist of five members.

5. A Committee on Mileage and Per Diem.

6. A Committee on Finance.

Each of which shall consist of three members.

7. A Committee on Masonic Correspondence.
To consist of one member.

8. Members of the Board of Trustees of Masonic Homes, as provided
in Section 1, Article 15, Part 1 of these by-laws.

Sec. 4. The Grand Master, Deputy Grand Master, Senior and Junior
Grand Wardens, Grand Treasurer, and Grand Secretary shall be ex officio
a Committee on Charity; and the Grand Master, Grand Treasurer, and
Grand Secretary shall be ex officio a Committee on Printing.

The Grand Secretary shall be ex officio Grand Librarian.

Article 2.

ELECTION OF GRAND OFFICERS.

Section i. The annual election shall be held at the time and in the
manner prescribed by Article 8 of the constitution of the Grand Lodge.

Sec. 2. In case of the death or other permanent disability of any of
the grand officers during recess of the Grand Lodge, the Grand Master
shall appoint some qualified and competent brother to fill the vacancy until
the next regular election and installation of officers.

Article 3.

GRAND MASTER.

Section i. The Grand Master shall present, at each annual co'mmuni-
cation of the Grand Lodge, a written report, setting forth such of his
official acts and decisions during the year as he may deem proper; also, re-
porting the general condition of Masonry within the jurisdiction, and rec-
ommending such legislation as he may deem necessary or expedient for the
welfare of the fraternity.

Sec. 2. He may establish such rules of order during each session of
the Grand Lodge (not otherwise provided for) as in his judgment may
facilitate the dispatch of business, and may abrogate or suspend the same
as occasion may require.

Sec. 3. The Grand Master may appoint such number as he may deem
expedient of competent brethren as Grand Lecturers, and constitute them

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a Board of Examiners for the purposes referred lo in Article 15 of the
constitution, who shall perform the duties prescribed in Sections 17 and 19,
Article 9, Part 1, of these by-laws.

Sec. 4. The salary of the Grand Master shall be fifteen hundred dol-
lars per annum, payable in monthly installments, which sum shall be in
full compensation for the performance of the duties of his office, including
clerk hire : Provided, that for such sums as he may expend for postage
and stationery and incidental office expenses the Grand Lodge may make
appropriations, upon presentation of itemized bills, approved by the Com-
mittee on Finance.

Article 4.

DEPUTY GRAND MASTER AND GRAND WARDENS.

Section i. It shall be the duty of the Deputy Grand Master and the
Grand Wardens to assist the Grand Master in the discharge of his duties,
as he may direct, and to exercise the powers incident to the contingencies
provided for in Section i, Article 9, of the constitution.

Article 5.

GRAND TREASURER.

Section i. It shall be the duty of the Grand Treasurer —

1. To be present at the Grand Lodge at all its communications, and to
attend upon the Grand Master when required, with the books and neces-
sary papers appertaining to his office; and also, if required by the Grand
Lodge or Grand Master, to attend with such books and papers upon any
committee which may be appointed to act in relation to the fiscal concerns
of the Grand Lodge.

2. To receive all moneys belonging to the Grand Lodge from the Grand
Secretary, to give him receipts therefor, and to keep, in suitable books, a
just and accurate record thereof.

3. To have in charge all securities, bonds, vouchers, and other fiscal
property belonging to the Grand Lodge.

4. To keep separate accounts, in detail, with each fund provided foi
in Article 12, Part 1, of these by-laws.

5. To invest all moneys of the Grand Lodge, which are in excess of
current obligations, and which belong to the respective funds in United
States, State, County or Municipal securities, in the name of the Grand
Lodge of A. F. and A. Masons of the State of Illinois ; such investment
to be made within thirty days after the funds shall have been received, and
remain so invested until otherwise ordered by the Grand Lodge ; the intei -
est accruing upon such moneys he shall credit to the respective funds t<>
which they belong.

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6. To pay all orders from the several funds of the Grand Lodge only
when signed by the Grand Master and Grand Secretary.

7. To report at each annual communication a detailed account of his
official receipts and disbursements, with proper vouchers for the latter, and
to present a statement of the existing condition of the several funds and
of the finances generally of the Grand Lodge.

Sec. 2. The Grand Treasurer shall execute and file with the Grand
Master, before his installation, an official bond, in such penal sum as may
be prescribed by the Grand Lodge, and in such surety company as shall be
approved by the Grand Master, conditioned that he will faithfully dis-
charge the duties of his office as prescribed in these by-laws, and at the
end of his term, or sooner, if lawfully required so to do, pay over and
transfer to his successor in office all funds, securities, books, records,
vouchers, or property belonging to the Grand Lodge which shall have
come into his keeping ; the expense of such bond to be paid by the Grand
Lodge.

Sec. 3. The salary of the Grand Treasurer shall be four hundred dol-
lars per annum, which shall be in full compensation for all his official
services.

Article 6.

GRAND SECRETARY.

Section i. It shall be the duty of the Grand Secretary —

1. To attend the Grand Lodge at all its communications, and the
Grand Master, or any committee of the Grand Lodge, when required by
the Grand Master, with the books and necessary papers appertaining to
his office, and place in the hands of appropriate committees all papers rela-
tive to matters of which they shall have jurisdiction.

2. To keep a record of the returns made by all lodges in this jurisdic-
tion ; to receive and preserve all petitions, applications, appeals, and other
documents addressed or belonging to the Grand Lodge ; to record all
transactions of the Grand Lodge which are proper to be written, and to
present such unfinished or other business as may require its action at each
communication thereof.

3. To receive all moneys due to the Grand Lodge, keep a correct de-
tailed account thereof in suitable books, and pay such moneys monthly to
the Grand Treasurer.

4. To notify all persons to whom the Grand Lodge may be justly in-
debted for supplies or for any service whatsoever to present their respect-
ive claims on or before the day of meeting of the Finance Committee, if
during vacation, or the same committee, if during the session of the Grand
Lodge.

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5. To report to the Grand Lodge, at each annual communication, a
detailed account of all moneys received by him during the preceding Ma-
sonic year, with a specified statement of the sources whence they were
derived, and to present therewith the receipts of the Treasurer therefor.

6. To keep the seal of the Grand Lodge and affix the same with his
attestation to all instruments emanating from that body, and to all official
documents and writings of the Grand Master, as he may direct ; also to
affix said seal to, and officially attest, any Masonic certificate, diploma, or
other proper document for the use of an individual brother, when re-
quested by a lodge in this jurisdiction of which said brother may be a
member.

7. To conduct the correspondence of the Grand Lodge, under the di-
rection of the Grand Master, and, if required, submit copies thereof at
each annual communication for inspection.

8. To issue notices of any special communication ordered by the
Grand Master to each grand officer and lodge within the jurisdiction.

9. To furnish, at least ninety days previous to each annual communi-
cation, each lodge in this jurisdiction with duplicate blank forms upon
which to make returns of work, etc., and furnish such instructions in
regard to them as the laws and regulations of the Grand Lodge may re-
quire.

10. To examine, during the recess of the Grand Lodge, the proceed-
ings and work of all the chartered lodges, as shown in the returns made
to the Grand Lodge at its last annual communication, , and to compare the
same with those of the preceding year, recording all errors discovered, and
report the same at the next session of the Grand Lodge ; also to report
all lodges in arrears for dues or which have neglected or refused to com-
ply with any requirements of the laws and regulations of the Grand
Lodge.

11. To transmit to each lodge in this jurisdiction, once in each quar-
ter, a list of all rejections of petitions for degrees, suspensions, expulsions,
restorations, and reinstatements of which he shall have been notified by
the several lodges: Provided, that no notice of rejection shall be so
transmitted until after the expiration of thirty days from the date thereof;
nor shall any publicity be given, by circular or otherwise, to any suspen-
sion or expulsion pending an appeal, nor until the time for such appeal has
expired; nor shall the names of brethren who have been rejected for mem-
bership or advancement be published at any time or in any manner.

12. To embody in a circular all propositions to amend the constitution
of the Grand Lodge, or any other matter upon which it is necessary for
the several lodges to act, and transmit the same, with necessary instruc-
tions, to each lodge in time for its action.

13. To cause the journal of the proceedings of each annual communi-
cation to be printed (unless otherwise ordered by the Grand Lodge) with

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all convenient dispatch, together with the names, titles, and places of ad-
dress of the grand officers; the names of such grand officers as are ex
officio permanent members ; and such tabulated Masonic statistics as may-
be deemed proper: Provided, that none of the details of Masonic trials
emanating from the Committee on Appeals and Grievances, whereby the
name of the accused or the offense charged, shall be published in the
printed proceedings, but that the Grand Secretary shall number such
cases, giving name and number of lodge, and the final action of the
Grand Lodge had thereon.

14. To furnish every grand officer, elected or appointed with a certifi-
cate, under seal, of his election or appointment.

15. To forward three copies of the proceedings (one of which shall
be a bound copy having the name and number of the lodge printed thereon)
to each lodge in this jurisdiction; ten copies to the Grand Master; two
copies to each Past Grand Master who shall be a member of some lodge
in this jurisdiction; and one copy to each grand officer enumerated in Ar-
ticle 5 of the constitution ; one copy to each representative of this Grand
Lodge near other Grand Lodges ; one copy to each Grand Master, and
two copies to each Grand Lodge in the United States and elsewhere that
may be in fraternal communication with this Grand Lodge.

16. To compare and correct carefully with the original manuscript five
bound copies of the proceedings, approved by the Grand Lodge, of each
annual communication ; certify to the same, under the seal of the Grand
Lodge, as true and correct copies, and file them among the archives thereof,
with said manuscript copy.

17. To furnish to the Committee on Masonic Correspondence the
proceedings of other Grand Lodges, and all documents relating thereto,
received during recess, and which, when returned to him, shall be filed
with the archives of the Grand Lodge.

18. To record the substance of every charter issued by the Grand
Lodge, the names of the Grand Officers signed thereto, and the names of
the charter members of the lodge.

19. To issue specifications and invite, by circular or public advertise-
ment, at least ninety days before each annual communication, seated pro-
posals for the printing of the Grand Lodge for the ensuing Masonic year;
and, upon an award, to represent the Grand Lodge in executing a contract
for said work.

20. To act as Grand Librarian, under such regulations as may be pre-
scribed by the Grand Lodge.

Sec. 2. He may recommend to the Grand Master, for appointment, a
Deputy Grand Secretary, for whose official acts he shall be responsible.

Sec. 3. He shall execute and file with the Grand Master, before his
installation, an official bond in such penal sum as may be prescribed by

APPENDIX — PART III.

the Grand Lodge, and in such surety company as shall be approved by
the Grand Master, conditioned that he will faithfully discharge the duties
of his office as prescribed by these by-laws ; the expense of such bond to
be paid by the Grand Lodge.

Sec. 4. For the due performance of the duties hereinbefore pre-
scribed, and for his deputy, and all necessary clerk hire and office rent,
the Grand Secretary shall receive, as full compensation, the sum of three
thousand dollars per annum, payable in monthly installments : Provided,
that for payment of sums actually expended for postage, express charges,
and incidental official expenses the Grand Lodge may make appropriations,
upon presentation of itemized bills, approved by the Finance Committee.

Article 7.

THE APPOINTED GRAND OFFICERS.

Section i. It shall be the duty of the Grand Chaplain, Grand Orator,
Deputy Grand Secretary, Grand Pursuivant, Grand Marshal, Grand Stand-
ard Bearer, Grand Sword Bearer, Senior Grand Deacon, Junior Grand
Deacon, and the Grand Stewards to perform such services incident to
their respective stations as the traditions and usages of the craft pre-
scribe, and such as the Grand Lodge or the Grand Master may direct.

Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the Grand Tyler —

1. To guard the entrance of the Grand Lodge ; report all applicants
for admission to the Grand Pursuivant ; announce their names and Ma-
sonic addresses, and see that all who enter are duly qualified and prop-
erly clothed.

2. To make suitable preparations for the accommodation of the
Grand Lodge at all its communications, and see that its halls and rooms
are kept in a proper condition during the session.

3. To take charge of and safely keep the jewels, furniture, clothing,
and paraphernalia of the Grand Lodge, during its communications and dur-
ing recess, unless otherwise ordered by the Grand Lodge or Grand Master.

4. To carry all notices and all summonses, and perform such other
duties as may be required of him by the Grand Lodge or Grand Master.

Sec. 3. The Grand Tyler shall receive for his services such com-
pensation as the Grand Lodge may direct.

Sec. 4. The foregoing officers shall be appointed as provided in Sec-
tion 1 of Article 8 of the constitution.

Sec. 5. No person shall hold .more than one office in this Grand
Lodge at the same time.

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Article 8.

DISTRICT DEPUTY GRAND MASTERS.

Section i. Each District Deputy Grand Master, when duly commis-
sioned as such, shall, during his official term, succeed to all the rights and
privileges provided in Articles 2 and 5 of the constitution : Provided,
however, that nothing therein shall be construed to exempt any District
Deputy Grand Master from the disciplinary jurisdiction of the lodge of
which he is a member, except that for his official acts he is responsible
alone to the Grand Lodge or to the Grand Master.

Sec. 2. Each District Deputy Grand Master shall exercise such pow-
ers and perform such duties as are required by law or which may from
time to time be delegated to him by the Grand Master.

Sec. 3. Each District Deputy Grand Master shall make an annual
report to the Grand Master thirty days prior to the meeting of the Grand
Lodge, setting forth his official acts during the year, the state of Masonry
within his jurisdiction, the condition of the lodges in his district, and sug-
gesting such measures as to him may appear conducive to the general good
of the fraternity; which report shall be laid before the Grand Lodge and
published with the proceedings.

Article q.

COMMITTEES.

ON CREDENTIALS.

Section i. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Credentials, at
each annual communication —

1. To examine with care the credentials of all Masons claiming the
right of membership in the Grand Lodge.

2. To list properly the names of all grand officers and members ; also,
the name of every representative, with the name and number of his lodge,
and his official position therein.

3. To require from each brother presenting himself as a proxy a
written commission, signed by the Master or Warden of his lodge whom
he represents.

4. To have a report prepared upon the matters herein prescribed and
present the same to the Grand Lodge immediately after its opening.

on finance.

Sec 2. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Finance —
1. To examine and compare the books, papers, vouchers, and accounts
of the Grand Master, Grand Treasurer, and Grand Secretary, and make
separate detailed reports thereon, and submit the same to the Grand
Lodge before the close of each annual session.

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2. To examine and report upon all accounts and financial matters to
them referred, during each session, and also to report the financial condi-
tion of the Grand Lodge.

3. To present, hefore the close of each annual communication, an
estimate of the probable expenses of the ensuing year (giving each class
of expenditures under its proper head), and recommend such amount as
they may deem necessary therefor.

4. To destroy all Grand Lodge orders surrendered to them by the
Grand Treasurer, after being satisfied that the same have been paid, can-
celed, and properly listed, and a report on the same has been duly ap-
proved by the Grand Lodge.

5. To convene, at such place as the chairman thereof may determine,
on or about the 15th day of December, March, June, and September, re-
spectively, of each year and investigate all bills or other demands against
the Grand Lodge which may be presented to them. If, for any reason,
said committee shall fail to meet at the time herein specified, the chairman
thereof may call a meeting at such time and place as the interests of the
Grand Lodge may require.

6. To audit no bill or other demand not fully authorized by the Grand
Lodge, or provided for in these by-laws ; and when any valid claim shall
be found correct, it shall be approved by the committee, or a majority of
them, and returned to the Grand Secretary, who shall draw a warrant on
the Grand Treasurer for the amount.

7. The Finance Committee shall make a full, detailed report of its do-
ings during the year, and submit the same to the Grand Lodge for
approval.

ON PETITIONS.

Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Petitions, at each
annual communication —

1. To report upon all petitions for change of location, or change of
name, of any chartered lodge.

2. To report upon all petitions to the Grand Lodge for the restoration
of expelled Masons, and those suspended by the Grand Lodge : Provided,
that such petitions shall be made as required by law; provided further,
that no such petition shall contain anything that can be construed as an
appeal from the action of any lodge or the Master thereof.

3. To report upon all other matters which may be referred to them
by the Grand Master or Grand Lodge.

ON OBITUARIES.

Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Obituaries to make
such report relative to deceased brethren as they deem fitting.

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ON GRAND MASTER S ANNUAL REPORT.

Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the Committee on the Grand Master's
Annual Report to subdivide the same and refer the several matters therein
contained to the appropriate committees, and to consider and report upon
all special matters therein not otherwise referable.

ON MASONIC JURISPRUDENCE.

Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Masonic Jurispru-
dence to consider and report to the Grand Lodge concerning such ques-
tions, documents, papers, and decisions of Masonic law and usage as
may be referred to them.

ON APPEALS AND GRIEVANCES.

Sec. 7. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Appeals and Griev-
ances to report, with such recommendations as they may deem proper,
upon all appeals from the proceedings or decisions of any lodge, or the
Master thereof, and upon all papers and documents relating to any mat-
ters of complaint or grievance, appertaining to Masonic discipline, which
may be referred to them.

ON RETURNS AND WORK OF CHARTERED LODGES.

Sec. 8. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Returns and Work
of Chartered Lodges —

1. To examine the returns of the proceedings and work of all char-
tered lodges for the preceding year.

2. To make a tabulated report, showing the number of resident and
non-resident members ; the number admitted, initiated, passed, raised,
dimitted, deceased, rejected, reinstated suspended and expelled; also,
showing the net increase and decrease of the membership of each lodge
for the year ; also the proper amount of dues due the Grand Lodge.

3. To give such additional information as may be deemed necessary :
Provided, that an examination and comparison of the returns shall not be
made with those of lodges made in any previous year ; the same being
provided for in Clause 10, Section 1, Article 6, Part 1, of these by-laws.

ON RETURNS AND WORK OF LODGES UNDER DISPENSATION.

Sec. 9. It shall be the duty of the Committee on the Returns and
Work of Lodges Under Dispensation —

1. To examine the returns of work, the records of proceedings, and
the by-laws of lodges under dispensation.

2. To make a tabulated report showing the regularity of the work
and proceedings ; the correctness of the records and by-laws ; the number
admitted, initiated, passed, raised, rejected, and deceased ; the number of

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brethren acting as members, together with the name and number of lodges,
and the locality in which they may be established.

3. To report such other information and make such recommendations
to the Grand Lodge as they may deem necessary.

ON MILEAGE AND PER DIEM.

Sec. 10. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Mileage and Per
Diem —

1. To ascertain the distance necessarily traveled by each officer, mem-
ber of, or representative to the Grand Lodge who may be entitled to
mileage and per diem.

2. To record the same in tabular form, showing the name and title
of the officer, member, or representative ; the name and number of their
respective lodges ; the actual number of miles necessarily traveled from
the location of his lodge by each respectively; the actual number of days
service ; the amount due therefor respectively (as provided in Section 6,
Article 13, Part 1, of these by-laws), and enter the same upon the cer-
tificate of enrollment issued by the Committee on Credentials.

3. To refuse to enter upon the certificate of enrollment, or to include
in their report as entitled to mileage or per diem, the name of any repre-
sentative who fails to produce the receipt of the Grand Secretary, showing
that the dues of his lodge were paid on or before the fifteenth day of
August.

4. To record the number of days service actually performed by each
member of all committees, and report the same to the Grand Lodge.

ON MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE.

Sec 11. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Masonic Corre-
spondence—

1. To examine all the printed or written proceedings or other docu-
ments emanating from other grand lodges in correspondence with this
Grand Lodge, and report at each annual communication whatever may
seem of sufficient importance and interest to the craft.

2. To prepare a report in time to have the same printed at least ten
days prior to the meeting under the regulations prescribed in Section 15 of
this Article for the use of the members at the next annual session of the
Grand Lodge.

3. To return to the Grand Secretary, after such report is complete, all
the proceedings and other documents received from other jurisdictions and
belonging to this Grand Lodge.

ON PRINTING.

Sec. 12. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Printing to meet
at the office of the Grand Secretary, at least ninety days before each an-

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nual session of the Grand Lodge, and there open and compute all bids for
printing for this Grand Lodge, and award contracts therefor to the low-
est and best bidders.

ON CHARITY.

Sec. 13. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Charity to investi-
gate all applications for assistance from the charity fund of this Grand
Lodge, and to draw upon the same through the Grand Treasurer for such
amounts as, in their judgment, are necessary: Provided, that not more
than one hundred dollars shall be donated upon any one application, unless
by special order of the Grand Lodge; and, provided, also, that all dona-
tions shall be concurred in by vote of the Grand Lodge when in session.

LIBRARIAN.

Sec. 14. It shall be the duty of the Librarian —

1. To take charge of the library, and have such volumes present, at
any session of the Grand Lodge, as may be required for the use of the
grand officers, committees, or members.

2. To take a receipt for every volume delivered, and in case of failure
to duly return the same to require of the lodge of which the delinquent is
a member payment in double the amount of the value of such volume, to
be collected with the annual dues of such lodge.

3. To select, and with the consent and approval of the Grand Master,
Deputy Grand Master, Grand Wardens, and Grand Treasurer, purchase
such books, charts, magazines, and other documents as may be deemed
necessary and proper and procure the binding of such volumes and docu-
ments as may be deemed expedient : Provided, the expense of such pur-
chase and binding shall not exceed the sum of one hundred dollars in any
one year, unless special appropriation shall be made therefor by the
Grand Lodge.

4. To appoint, when necessary, a Deputy Librarian, to serve during
the annual session only.

Sec. 15. The foregoing named committees shall assemble at such
time and place as the Grand Master may direct, and shall submit their
respective reports at such time as the Grand Lodge or Grand Master may
order.

Sec. 16. The committees herein provided for, except those on Charity
and Library, shall be considered standing committees, within the meaning
of Clause 9, Article 11, of the constitution.

Sec. 17. It shall be the duty of the Grand Lecturers or Examiners
who may be appointed by the Grand Master to examine without fee all
applicants for commissions as Deputy Grand Lecturers, who may present
themselves for that purpose, and report to the Grand Master upon the

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qualifications of such applicants ; and said Grand Lecturers or Examiners
may hold Schools of Instruction, at such time and place as the Grand
Master may order, and perform such other duties incident to their position
as he may direct : Provided, that no brother shall be recommended for a
commission unless at least two of the Grand Examiners have personal
knowledge of his proficiency and have satisfied themselves of his fitness
and qualifications in other respects.

Sec. 18. The commissions of the Grand Lecturers or Examiners and
of the Deputy Grand Lecturers shall expire at the close of the annual
communication of the Grand Lodge, unless sooner revoked by the Grand
Master.

Sec. 19. The Grand Lecturers or Examiners, upon an order from
the Grand Master, shall attend the annual meetings of the Grand Lodge,
and when so ordered shall act as a committee to examine visiting breth-
ren, and shall be entitled to the mileage and per diem provided for repre-
sentatives. (See Section 6, Article 13, Part 1, of these by-laws.)

Article 10.

ELIGIBILITY.

Section i. No brother shall be eligible to hold office in, or serve
upon any committee of, this Grand Lodge, unless qualified as provided in
Article 7 of the constitution.

Sec. 2. Any brother Master Mason in good standing subject to the
restrictions of Sections 1 and 2, Article 26, Part 2, of these by-laws shall
be eligible to represent his lodge in Grand Lodge, during the annual ses-
sion thereof, in the manner provided in Section 3 of Article 8 of the
constitution.

Sec. 3. No brother, after taking his seat as a member, shall be al-
lowed to retire without permission of the Grand Lodge or Grand Master.

Sec. 4. No brother not a member of, or representative to the Grand
Lodge, shall be admitted to the floor thereof; nor permitted to speak on
any matter before the body, without leave of the Grand Lodge or Grand
Master : Provided, hozvever, that any Master Mason in good standing,
upon being properly vouched for, may occupy a seat provided for visitors.

Sec. 5. Electioneering in any way for one's self for office in the
Grand Lodge is prohibited as un-Masonic, and any member found guilty
of the offense shall be ineligible to office; and, if already in office, shall for-
feit the office held by him.

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Article ii.

REVENUE.

Section i. The revenue of the Grand Lodge shall be derived from
the following sources, to-wit:

i. For every dispensation to form a new lodge, one hundred dollars,
which amount shall include the fee for a charter, in case the Grand Lodge
shall subsequently issue the same.

2. For every dispensation issued to ballot upon a petition for, or to
authorize conferring the degree of, Entered Apprentice in less than law-
ful time, twenty dollars for each petitioner so acted upon, which sum musf
be paid before the dispensation is issued.

3. For every dispensation to ballot upon an application for advance-
ment, or to authorize conferring the degree of Fellow Craft or Master
Mason, in less than lawful time, five dollars, said sum to be paid for each
degree for every candidate passed or raised.

4. For every dispensation issued for any other purpose, two dollars.

5. For each member of every chartered lodge under this jurisdiction
ninety cents annually.

6. For every Master Mason, acting as a member, or whose name may
be upon the roll of any lodge under dispensation, and who is not a mem-
ber of some chartered lodge in this jurisdiction ninety cents annually, the
same to be paid by such lodge under dispensation.

Sec. 2. The foregoing fees and dues shall be paid into the treasury of
the Grand Lodge within thirty days after the same are received.

Article 12.

FUNDS.

Section i. The Masonic fiscal year shall commence on the first day
of July and end on the thirtieth day of June in each year.

Sec. 2. There shall be five funds, viz. : The General Fund, the Char-
ity Fund, the Illinois Masonic Home Fund, the Illinois Masonic Orphans'
Home Fund, and the Home for the Aged Fund.

Sec. 3. The General Fund shall consist of all moneys paid into the
Grand Lodge, except those belonging to or especially designated for some
one of the other funds.

Sec. 4. The necessary funds for the ordinary expenses of the Grand
Lodge shall be appropriated annually from the General Fund, and shall
be of such amount as may be necessary to meet the current expenses dur-
ing the recess of the Grand Lodge; such appropriations to be determined
as provided in Clause 3, of Section 2, Article 9, Part 1, of these by-laws,
and be approved by a vote of the Grand Lodge.

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Sec. 5. The Charity Fund shall consist of all moneys especially do-
nated or set apart therefor, and such as may accrue by virtue of the pro-
visions of Section 5, Article 27, Part 2, of these by-laws.

Sec. 6. The Illinois Masonic Home Fund shall consist of the income
derived from the property at Sullivan and such sums as may be collected
or appropriated by the Grand Lodge for the Home at that place, together
with all donations or bequests that may be made therefor and any interest
accruing thereon.

Sec. 7. The Illinois Masonic Orphans' Home Fund shall consist of
the moneys and securities received and held in trust by the Grand Lodge
from the Illinois Masonic Orphans' Home at Chicago, together with such
sums as may be collected or specifically appropriated therefor from time
to time by the Grand Lodge, and the accretion thereto from interest, do-
nations, or bequests.

Sec. 8. The Home for the Aged Fund shall consist of the moneys
and securities received and held in trust by the Grand Lodge from the
Illinois Masonic Home for the Aged, and the accretion thereto from in-
terest, donations or bequests.

Sec. 9. The Grand Secretary and Grand Treasurer shall keep a sep-
arate account with each of the foregoing funds showing, in detail all re-
ceipts and expenditures.

Sec. 10. The unexpended balance of all appropriations at the com-
mencement of each annual communication shall be transferred by the
Grand Treasurer to the respective funds from which the appropriations
were made.

Article: 13.

EXPENDITURES.

Section i. No proposition contemplating the appropriation or ex-
penditure of any money from the general fund shall be put upon its final
passage until it shall have been considered and reported upon by some
committee of the Grand Lodge.

Sec. 2. No money shall be paid from the amount appropriated for
the expenses of the Grand Lodge except in the manner provided in
Clause 6 of Section 2, Article 9, Part 1 of these by-laws.

Sec. 3. No money shall be paid from the charity fund except as pre-
scribed in Section 13, Article 9, Part 1, of these by-laws, unless regularly
appropriated by vote of the Grand Lodge.

Sec. 4. No money shall be paid to Grand Officers, members, or rep-
resentatives, for mileage or per diem, until the close of each annual com-
munication, unless otherwise ordered by the Grand Lodge.

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Sec. 5. Every account against the Grand Lodge shall be in detail,
and show upon its face each item composing the whole claim.

Sec. 6. The grand officers designated in Article 5 of the constitution,
such Past Grand Masters, Past Deputy Grand Masters and Past Grand
Wardens as shall be present and shall be members of constituent lodges
in Illinois, {provided, that if any such permanent member in attendance on
the sessions of the Grand Lodge, be at the time a sojourner outside of
Illinois his mileage shall be computed from the location of his lodge,) each
member of a standing committee, and one representative (the highest in
rank) from each lodge under this jurisdiction shall be allowed five cents
per mile going and returning, for every mile traveled from the location of
his lodge, to be computed by the necessarily traveled route, and (except
the Grand Master, Grand Treasurer and Grand Secretary) two dollars per
day for each day's actual attendance on the Grand Lodge or its commit-
tees : Provided, that no one shall receive mileage or per diem in more
than one capacity.

Sec. 7. Every Grand Officer shall be entitled to be reimbursed for
any moneys actually expended in the necessary discharge of his official
duties, but in all cases the claims for such reimbursement shall be subject
to the requirements of Section 1 of this article.

Article 14.

MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.

Section i. Special communications of the Grand Lodge may be called
as provided in the first clause of Article 12 of the constitution ; but no
business shall be transacted except such as shall have been previously
stated in the call for such special communication.

Sec. 2. Occasional communications of the Grand Lodge may be con-
vened by the Grand Master, or by the deputy specially appointed, for the
purpose of constituting lodges, dedicating halls, laying corner-stones, or
other ceremonies requiring the aid of a Grand Lodge.

Sec. 3. The "Previous Question" is un-Masonic ; and the making or
entertaining such motion in this Grand Lodge, or in any constituent lodge
in this jurisdiction, is irregular and unlawful. The same rule shall apply
to a motion to "lay upon the table," except for a specified limited time,
within the probable duration of the current session of the Grand Lodge
or a constituent lodge.

Sec. 4. General parliamentary usage shall be in order in the Grand
Lodge, or any constituent lodge in this jurisdiction, so far as it may be
consistent with the principles of Masonry, and in conformity with the
laws, rules, and regulations of this Grand Lodge and the by-laws and
rules of the constituent lodge.

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Sec. 5. Every member of the Grand Lodge making a motion, or
speaking to a question, shall announce his name and the number of the
lodge he represents.

Sec. 6. Every member entitled to vote shall, unless excused by the
Grand Lodge or Grand Master, vote on all questions coming before the
Grand Lodge.

Sec. 7. Any Grand Officer, representative, or member of a commit-
tee, who shall be absent during two successive sittings of the Grand Lodge,
except for sickness or other good cause (of the sufficiency of which the
Grand Lodge shall be the judge), or by the authority of the Grand Lodge
or Grand Master, shall forfeit all claim to mileage and per diem.

Article 15.

masonic homes.

Section i. The supervision and management of the Masonic Homes
established or controlled by the Grand Lodge shall be vested in a Board
of Trustees consisting of five ex officio and six appointive members, each
of whom shall be a member of some constituent lodge in Illinois. The
terms of office of the six appointive members shall be for three years, or
until their successors have been duly appointed and qualified. The Grand
Master is empowered to appoint as members of this Board two Trustees
each year, immediately after his election and installation to office, and the
Grand Master, Deputy Grand Master, Grand Wardens, and Grand Secre-
tary shall be ex officio members of the Board. The Board may effect its
own organization, and administer its affairs by such sub-committees, and
by the adoption of such rules and regulations as are not inconsistent with
Grand Lodge By-Laws, subject at all times to the approval of the Grand
Master or Grand Lodge.

Sec. 2. The Board shall submit a report annually to the Grand Lodge
exhibiting in detail all its transactions during the preceding year, includ-
ing all receipts and expenditures, and the reception, maintenance and dis-
charge of members of the Homes under their charge, together with such
recommendations for consideration of the Grand Lodge in reference to
the Homes as they may deem proper; all of which shall be published in
the annual proceedings of the Grand Lodge.

Sec. 3. The Board is authorized and empowered to employ such as-
sistants for the clerical and administrative work of maintaining the Homes,
as in its judgment the conditions demand, but always within the limits of
the appropriation or resources at their command, being expressly prohib-
ited from incurring any liability not provided for in advance by said
appropriations or other resources.

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Sec. 4. The members of the Board of Trustees shall be entitled to
receive from the appropriations made for the Homes, their actual and
necessary traveling expenses incurred in attending the meetings of the
Board, not to exceed four in each year; provided, however, that the officers
of the Board or members of sub-committees shall be reimbursed for all
actual and necessary traveling expenses which they incur in the discharge
of duties regularly assigned to them by the Board of Trustees.

Sec. 5. No money appropriated for the maintenance and manage-
ment of the respective Masonic Homes shall be paid out by the Board of
Trustees thereof except upon the warrant of the President of the Board
duly attested by its Secretary.

BY-LAWS OF THE
MOST WORSH I PFUL GRAND LODGE

Of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons
OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS.

PART 2.

Relative to Constituent Lodges.

Article i.

THE COMPOSITION AND ORGANIZATION OF A LODGE.

Section i. Every lodge shall consist of a Master, Senior Warden,
Junior Warden, Treasurer, Secretary, Senior Deacon, Junior Deacon,
Tyler and such other officers as its by-laws may provide for, and of as
many members as it may find convenient.

Sec. 2. No lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons can legally
assemble in this state unless authorized so to do by a dispensation from
the Grand Master or a charter from the Grand Lodge of Ancient Free
and Accepted Masons of the State of Illinois.

Article 2.

THE INHERENT AND CONSTITUTIONAL POWERS OF A CONSTITUENT LODGE.

Section i. The powers of a lodge are such as are prescribed in its
charter or letter of dispensation ; by the constitution, by-laws, and regula-
tions of this Grand Lodge; the landmarks and general regulations of Ma-
sonry ; and, when not in conflict therewith, its own by-laws ; and are defined
as follows :

1. The Executive, which relates to the direction and performance of
its work, under the control of the Master, who is the superior executive
officer of the lodge.

2. The Legislative, which embraces all matters of legislation relative
to the internal concerns of the lodge which are not in violation of its own
by-laws, the general regulations of Masonry, the constitution and by-laws
of the Grand Lodge, and the orders and edicts of the Grand Master.

APPENDIX— PART III. 21

3. The Judicial, which embraces the exercise of discipline over, and
the settlement of difficulties between, all its own members (except the
Master), and all Masons and non-affiliated brethren within its jurisdic-
tion, subject always to a review by the Grand Lodge upon appeal.

Sec. 2. All lodges should be designated Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons. The proper initials are A. F. and A. M.

Article 3.

DUTIES OF A LODGE.

Section i. It shall be the duty of a lodge — •

1. To hold at least one stated communication in each month, and to
annually elect and install its officers.

2. To provide for its meetings a safe and suitable room.

3. To keep a full and proper record of its transactions.

4. To make a full report thereof annually to the Grand Lodge.

5. To pay its annual dues to the Grand Lodge, punctually.

6. To have a code of by-laws which shall conform to the constitution,
laws, and regulations of the Grand Lodge, and not violate the ancient
landmarks.

7. To have a suitable seal, and file an impression thereof with the
Grand Secretary.

Sec. 2. No lodge can amend its by-laws by less than a two-thirds
vote, nor unless the proposed amendment shall have been offered in writing
at a previous stated meeting and all resident members notified of the pro-
posed change and the time of action thereon.

Sec. 3. No lodge shall remove its place of meeting from the city,
town, or village named in its charter or dispensation, except by special
authority of the Grand Lodge or Grand Master, granted upon a written
petition, concurred in by a vote of three-fourths of the members of the
lodge present at a stated meeting; of which meeting, and the proposition
for such removal, all the resident members of the lodge shall have pre-
vious notice ; and such removal shall be consented to by the lodge or lodges
whose jurisdiction may be affected thereby.

Sec. 4. The annual dues assessed by a lodge shall be uniform, each
member paying the same amount, and no lodge shall levy a special tax
or assessment upon its members other than the dues or other tax pre-
scribed by its by-laws.

Sec. 5. The discussion of political, sectarian, or other subjects not
of a strictly Masonic character is prohibited in every lodge in this juris-
diction.

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Sec. 6. No lodge, officer, or member thereof shall grant a certificate
or recommendation whereby any Mason may in an itinerant manner apply
to lodges or members thereof for relief.

Sec. 7. Every lodge shall have all official communications from the
Grand Master or Grand Secretary read in open lodge at the stated meet-
ing next following their receipt.

Sec. 8. A lodge cannot append standing resolutions to their by-laws
to compel their members to wait upon sick brethren, or care for and nurse
their families in case of sickness, or furnish a substitute, and in case of
refusal or neglect, assess a sum of money equivalent to such service.

Sec. 9. Appeals for aid are by Masonic usage confined to the assist-
ance of a needy worthy brother, his widow and orphans. No Mason's
obligation enjoins him to contribute to assist even his own lodge, much
less others, in erecting buildings.

Sec. 10. The care of a sick and destitute sojourning brother is a
legitimate burden of Masonry, to be borne to the extent of their ability
by the Masons among whom his lot may be cast, without the expectation
of pecuniary reward ; and so also is the burial of the dead ; a duty, the
performance of which, in either case, affords no ground for a claim to
reimbursement by the lodge to which a sick or dying brother may belong.

Article 4.

MEETINGS OF A LODGE.

Section i. The meetings of a lodge are stated and special.

Sec. 2. Stated meetings are those held at the time prescribed by the
by-laws ; and at such meetings all general business, such as balloting for
candidates for the degrees, or for membership, election of officers, and the
discussion of questions relative to the interests of the fraternity shall be
transacted in a lodge of Master Masons.

Sec. 3. Special meetings may be called, in the discretion of the
Master, by giving due notice to the resident members ; but no business ex-
cept trials, conferring degrees, or ceremonial observances (including the
necessary examination of candidates for advancement) shall be transacted;
nor shall any lodge be convened on Sunday, except for funeral purposes.

Sec. 4. Nothing shall be done in any lodge while open on first or
second degree except what appertains to the work and lectures of those
degrees, or the taking of testimony upon charges preferred against an
Entered Apprentice or Fellow Craft.

Sec. 5. No lodge shall remain closed beyond the time prescribed in
its by-laws for holding stated meetings, except by dispensation of the
Grand Master.

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Sec. 6. The Master can not authorize any one to open the lodge or
preside in his absence, to the exclusion of a Warden present ; and in the
absence of the Master and both the Wardens a lodge can not be opened
for any purpose, nor can its business or work be carried on, except by the
Grand Master or his special deputy.

Sec. 7. No lodge shall be opened on any degree unless there be pres-
ent at least seven Master Masons; nor shall any balloting or other busi-
ness be done (except conferring degrees) unless there be present at least
seven members of the lodge, of whom, the tyler if a member of the lodge
may be one.

Sec. 8. The records of the proceedings of a lodge, after having been
regularly approved by the lodge, shall not be altered or any part thereof
expunged at any subsequent meeting, except by dispensation of the Grand
Master.

Sec. 9. It shall be the duty of the Master of any lodge, when notified
of the intended official visit of the Grand Master or District Deputy Grand
Master, to convene his lodge, extend to him the appropriate courtesies,
and, when called upon, to submit for his inspection the by-laws and rec-
ords, and furnish such facilities as may be necessary for a proper discharge
of his duties.

Sec. 10. It is irregular and unlawful for a lodge to hold communica-
tions for work in two separate halls at the same time.

Sec. 11. All notices emanating from lodges or their officers shall be
sent to members under sealed cover : Provided, that the bare notice of
time and place of meeting may be published or be sent by postal card, but
no details of work to be done or business transacted shall be made public.

Sec. 12. A lodge shall not transact any business involving final action
by vote of the lodge at any communication after the work of conferring
degrees has begun.

Sec. 13. The conferring of more than seven degrees by any lodge
during any one day is prohibited.

Sec. 14. A lodge may be called from labor to refreshment for a speci-
fied time, but not beyond the limits of the current day.

Sec. 15. When a lodge has been regularly opened on the first, second
and third degrees for a special meeting on the date of a stated meeting
but earlier than the hour named in the by-laws for stated meetings, the
special may be changed to a stated without going through the ceremonies
of closing and again opening, but in the following manner only, viz. : At
a time not less than fifteen nor more than forty-five minutes after the hour
named in the by-laws for the stated meetings, the Master shall announce
in open lodge that the hour for the stated meeting having arrived and the

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lodge having been opened on the first, second and third degrees in form,
further work in the special meeting will be dispensed with and the busi-
ness of the stated taken up. The records shall show that above declara-
tion was made by the Waster, and give the names of the officers and
members present. At the proper time the meeting shall be closed on third,
second and first degrees in form.

Article 5.

ELECTION, APPOINTMENTS, AND INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS.

Section i. Every lodge shall elect, appoint, and install its officers
annually, at such times and in the manner prescribed by its by-laws. The
Master, Wardens, Treasurer and Secretary must be chosen by ballot, the
other officers may be elected by ballot, or appointed by the Master as the
by-laws may provide. There must be a ballot for each elective office, at
which each member present shall have the opportunity to vote, and a ma-
jority of the whole number of votes cast shall be necessary to a choice.
Blank pieces of paper are neither ballots nor votes and should not be
counted as such, or have any effect upon the result. The installation cere-
monies shall be held as soon after election as convenient, and must occur
at the lodge hall or in the near vicinity thereof and within the jurisdiction
of the lodge.

Sec. 2. Every lodge shall, within thirty days after the annual installa-
tion, transmit to the Grand Master, the Grand Secretary and the District
Deputy Grand Master, a duly certified list of the names of the newly in-
stalled officers, with the dates of their election and installation, and the
name and title of the installing officer..

Sec. 3. Removal from the territorial jurisdiction of a lodge does not
affect the right of an officer-elect to be installed therein.

Sec. 4. The refusal of an officer-elect to give bond as required by
the by-laws of his lodge is a refusal to qualify for installation, and should
be so treated.

Sec. 5. In the absence of the Master elect, the officers of a lodge can-
not be installed. The ceremonies must begin with that officer.

Sec. 6. The Master having been legally installed it becomes his right,
as well as his privilege, to install the other officers elected and appointed,
at same communication or as soon thereafter as practicable.

Sec. 7. In case any lodge shall fail to elect its officers at the time
prescribed by its by-laws, it shall forthwith lay the matter before the
Grand Master, who, for good cause shown, may grant a dispensation to
hold an election as soon thereafter as may be practicable; such dispensa-
tion shall be entered at length upon the records of the lodge. But in no
case shall an election be held prior to the time specified in the by-laws.

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Sec. 8. Neither the Master, Senior Warden, nor Junior Warden of a
chartered lodge shall resign, dimit or take part in the formation of a lodge
under dispensation during his official term: Provided, that in case a Mas-
ter or Warden becomes physically or mentally disqualified to perform the
duties of his office or has permanently removed from its jurisdiction, the
lodge may certify the fact to the Grand Master who in his discretion may
declare a vacancy or grant a dispensation authorizing resignation or dimit
and order an election to fill vacancy. The resignation of any other elected
officer may be accepted by the lodge. The vacancy shall be filled by special
election, held under authority of a dispensation from the Grand Master.

Sec. 9. Resignations of appointed officers may, for good reasons, be
received, and the vacancies filled by the Master.

Sec. 10. A brother having been elected Master or Warden, but not
installed, is not debarred a dimit.

Sec. 11. The duly elected and installed Master, Senior Warden and
Junior Warden of the lodge, by virtue of their office and the powers and
prerogatives appertaining thereto, are the only members qualified to repre-
sent the lodge in its corporate capacity and to be designated as Trustees.

Article 6.

ELIGIBILITY.

Section i. No brother shall be eligible to the office of Master in any
bartered lodge unless he is an actual member thereof, nor unless he has
been duly elected and regularly installed as a Warden of some legally
chartered lodge : Provided, that in case of an emergency the lodge may
elect any member not so qualified ; but no brother so elected can be in-
stalled except by dispensation, applied for by written petition of the
lodge, signed by the present Master and Wardens, and resident Past Mas-
ters and Wardens ; provided, further, that this section shall not apply to
the Master of a lodge under dispensation. Acting as Warden of a lodge
U. D. does not make a brother eligible to the office of Master in a char-
tered lodge, but a member nominated in charter as Warden of a lodge
and regularly installed thereby becomes eligible to office of Master. The
fact that charges have been preferred against a brother does not affect his
eligibility for office.

Sec. 2. Any member of a lodge qualified to vote in the election of
officers shall be eligible to any office in the lodge except that of Master:
Provided, that no member shall hold more than one office in the lodge at
the same time.

Sec. 3. Officers of a chartered lodge must be installed as often as
re-elected or appointed.

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Sec. 4. No officer of a lodge can be legally installed by proxy.

Sec. 5. No brother is Masonically qualified to install the officers of a
lodge except one who has been duly elected and regularly installed as
Master of a chartered lodge working under the jurisdiction of some rec-
ognized Grand Lodge, and who is, at the time of exercising such official
authority, an actual member, in good standing, of some regular lodge ;
Provided, that this shall not be construed to affect the Grand Master or his
proxy, and non-affiliation can not be accepted under Article 9 of the con-
stitution as constituting disabilty of the Grand Master.

Article 7.

POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE MASTER.

Section i. The Master shall have power —

1. To convene his lodge in special communication whenever he may
deem proper.

2. To preside at all meetings of his lodge.

3. To cause to be issued all notices and summonses which may be
required.

4. To appoint all the officers of the lodge whose election is not pro-
vided for in the by-laws.

5. To appoint all committees.

6. To fill a vacancy in any office for the term of any meeting of the
lodge.

7. To discharge all the executive functions of his lodge.

8. To represent his lodge in Grand Lodge, even though not residing
in this state.

9. To require every member of the lodge present to vote upon all
questions of a business character coming before the lodge, unless excused
by the Master or by vote of the majority of the members present.

10. To perform such other acts as by ancient usage pertain to his office,
which shall not contravene any of the provisions of the constitution, laws,
and regulations of this Grand Lodge.

Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the Master —

1. To convene his lodge in regular communication at the time pre-
scribed by its by-laws.

2. To superintend the official acts of the officers of his lodge, and see
that their respective duties are properly performed.

3. To guard carefully against any infraction of the by-laws of his
lodge, the written laws of the Grand Lodge, or the general regulations of
Masonry, and suffer no departure therefrom upon the plea of convenience
or expediency, except in cases of emergency, and then only by dispensa-
tion of the Grand Master.

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4. To see that proper returns of work, etc., are annually transmitted
to the Grand Secretary, and that the Grand Lodge dues are promptly paid.

5. To cause summonses to issue only when the welfare of Masonry,
the interest of the lodge, or the rights of a brother demand, and to take
special care that disobedience of a duly served summons be promptly fol-
lowed by discipline, unless the offender render excuse for the offense sat-
isfactory to the lodge.

6. To cause all necessary notices to be issued in the prescribed manner
and form.

7. To permit no appeal from his decision to be made to the lodge.

8. To make the work and ritual practiced in his lodge conform to the
standard adopted by the Grand Lodge.

Article: 8.

WARDENS.

Section i. It shall be the duty of the wardens to assist the Master
in the discharge of his duties, and to perform such other acts as Masonic
usage has assigned to their respective stations.

Sec. 2. In the absence of the Master the duties of his office shall be
fulfilled by the Senior Warden, and if the Master and Senior Warden
both be absent, the Junior Warden shall fulfill the duties of the Master.

Sec. 3. No Warden can call a special meeting of the lodge while his
official superior is within the territorial jurisdiction thereof and able to
authorize a call, but a Warden presiding in the Master's absence may
while thus acting perform any act which the Master might do were he
present.

Article 9.

OTHER officers.

Sec. 1. The Treasurer of a lodge is the proper custodian of all its
money, securities, bonds, and other fiscal property, and they can not be
taken from his control and be placed in the hands of Trustees. He should
keep the funds and accounts of the lodge entirely distinct from all others
and in case he has a bank account the funds of the lodge should be deposited
to his credit as Treasurer.

Sec. 2. The Secretary in addition to performing the duties pre-
scribed by the ritual shall record the time when the lodge is opened and
closed and the names of officers, members and visitors present at each meet-
ing: Provided, that he may have a separate book especially prepared for
keeping the official record of members in attendance and that this book may
be placed in the Tyler's room at each meeting, it being the duty of every
member to record his name therein before entering the lodge. He shall

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promptly transmit to the Grand Secretary notice of all rejections for de-
grees, expulsions, suspensions and re-instatements with the date of same,
and shall perform such other services pertaining to his office as are re-
quired by the Master or the customs of the fraternity or as are designated
by the by-laws of the lodge or the Grand Lodge. He may receive such
compensation for his services as the lodge shall direct.

Sec. 3. All other officers of a lodge shall perform such duties therein
as may be directed by the Master and Wardens, not conflicting with the
by-laws of the lodge, the laws and regulations of the Grand Lodge, and
the usages and general regulations of Masonry.

Article 10.

MEMBERSHIP.

Section i. Membership in a lodge may be acquired —

1. By having been named in a charter issued to a lodge under dis-
pensation.

2. By having regularly received the degree of Master Mason therein,
and signing the by-laws thereof in person or by proxy appointed in writing.

3. By a Master Mason petitioning a lodge for affiliation, and upon due
election to membership, and signing the by-laws of the lodge, in person
or by duly appointed proxy.

Sec. 2. Every petition for degrees or membership contemplates mem-
bership. The by-laws of the lodge should always be present when candi-
dates are raised or elected to membership and a refusal to sign them de-
prives the petitioner of the rights of membership. If he exercises the
privileges of membership he cannot thereafter deny the responsibilities
thereof, and he would then be subject to discipline for refusing to sign
the by-laws.

Sec. 3. Members of a chartered lodge who are also members of a
lodge U. D. may vote and hold office in both lodges, except as provided in
Section 8, Article 5, Part 2, of these by-laws.

Sec. 4. No Mason shall be an actual member of more than one char-
tered lodge at the same time : Provided, that a lodge may by unanimous
ballot confer the title of honorary membership upon any Master Mason
who is a member in good standing of some other regular lodge, his name
having been proposed at a previous stated meeting ; but such honorary
membership shall not confer any of the rights of regular membership.
Honorary membership may be terminated by a three-fourths ballot at a
stated meeting, notice having been given in open lodge at the preceding
stated meeting of such proposed action.

Sec. 5. The status of a brother in his lodge cannot be changed after

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his death. One who is in good standing at the time of his death is entitled
to Masonic burial, if he made such request or it is made by his family.

Sec. 6. Membership in a chartered lodge can be terminated only —
i. By dissolution of the lodge.

2. By voluntary, formal dimission therefrom.

3. By becoming a charter member of a new lodge.

4. By death, suspension, or expulsion.

Sec. 7. It is the duty of every Master Mason to be a member of some
lodge.

Article ii.

LODGE JURISDICTION.

Section i. Every chartered lodge shall have certain personal and
territorial jurisdiction.

Sec. 2. The personal jurisdiction of a lodge shall extend over all its
members (except its Master, or the Grand Master if a member thereof)
wherever they may reside; and over its unfinished work and rejected
material, wherever they may be dispersed.

Sec. 3. The territorial jurisdiction of a lodge shall extend in all di-
rections half way on straight lines between the actual location of the lodge
rooms of neighboring lodges, without regard to county or other geograph-
ical divisions ; and includes the exclusive right, on the part of the lodge,
to accept or reject all original petitions for the degrees from persons re-
siding within its territory; and the exercise of penal powers over all Ma-
sons, unaffiliated, as well as affiliated, residing permanently or temporarily
within its territorial jurisdiction, for any violation of moral or Masonic
law ; Provided, that in any town or city where two or more lodges are
located territorial jurisdiction shall be concurrent.

Sec. 4. Lodges within the corporate limits of a city or town have
concurrent jurisdiction, but over such territory and candidates only as are
nearer to one of said lodges than to a lodge outside of said limits. Cor-
poration lines are ignored except to determine which lodges have a part
in the concurrent jurisdiction.

Article 12.

THE QUALIFICATIONS OF CANDIDATES.

Section i. Every candidate applying for the degrees in Masonry
must have the senses of a man, especially those of hearing, seeing, and
feeling; be a believer in God; capable of reading and writing, and pos-
sessing no maim or defect in his body that may render him incapable of
conforming literally to what the several degrees respectively require of

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him. No provision of this section shall be set aside, suspended, or dis-
pensed with by the Grand Master or the Grand Lodge.

Sec. 2. The landmark respecting physical qualifications — of which the
next preceding section is substantially a repetition — manifestly refers only
to the time of making ; hence a brother maimed after initiation may
be advanced.

Sec. 3. Masonry knows no distinction of race or color. It is the
mental, moral, and physical qualifications of the man that are to be con-
sidered.

Sec. 4. A candidate who is unable or unwilling to express a belief
in the existence of God lacks an essential qualification for the degrees in
Masonry. In such cases tbe fee shall be returned with the information
that he cannot become a Mason.

Sec. 5. No lodge shall knowingly receive a petition from, or initiate,
a candidate who is less than twenty-one years old, or who has not been
an actual resident of the State of Illinois at least twelve months and of
the jurisdiction of the lodge at least six months next preceding the date
of such petition; and if any such qualified petitioner shall have been re-
jected by any regular lodge in this jurisdiction, the requirements of Sec-
tions 6 and 8, Article 13, Part 2, of these by-laws, shall be complied with.

Sec. 6. By the Masonic residence of an applicant is meant a perma-
nent, settled domicile, or fixed abode, from choice ; and, as a rule, is iden-
tical with his legal residence.

Sec. 7. A man who has no fixed abode or legal residence cannot peti-
tion any lodge in Illinois.

Sec. 8. If it shall be ascertained after the election of an applicant that
he is disqualified by lack of residence, the petition, with the fee, shall
be returned without further action.

Sec. 9. To be naturalized is not a prerequisite qualification of a can-
didate, either for initiation or affiliation.

Sec. 10. In case any petition for the degrees shall have been rejected
by a lodge in any other grand jurisdiction, within convenient reach by
correspondence, the regulations specified in Section 6 of the succeeding
article (13) shall apply: Provided, however, that if, after due diligence
to communicate with such lodge has been exercised, no reply be received
to the request for permission after the period of ninety days from making
such request, a lodge may proceed to take action upon such petition with-
out such permission.

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Article 13.

PETITIONS.

Section i. All petitions for the degrees or for membership shall be
made in writing, and signed by the applicant with his full name ; shall
state his age, occupation, and place of residence, and, in case of a peti-
tioner for the degrees, whether he has made application to any other lodge ;
and shall be accompanied by the fee which the by-laws of the lodge re-
quire with the petition. Every petition shall be recommended in writing
by three members of the lodge, and be read at a stated meeting, and en-
tered in substance upon the records. After it has been read it is received
by the voice of the lodge, either tacitly or formally given ; or, at its
pleasure, the lodge may refuse to receive it.

Sec. 2. Every petition for the degrees or membership after it is re-
ceived shall be referred to a committee of three members of the lodge,
whose names shall be announced in open lodge at the meeting when peti-
tion is received, who shall diligently inquire into the moral, mental, and
physical qualifications of the applicant, and whether he has been a citizen
of the state as provided in Section 5, of Article 12, Part 2, of these by-
laws, and make such report thereon to the Master as they may deem
proper : Provided, that the report shall be verbal, and the nature thereof,
whether favorable or unfavorable, shall not be entered of record. Each
member of said committee shall respectively make private verbal report
to the Worshipful Master, who, at the proper time, shall announce to the
lodge only the degree of unanimity of the committee and the nature of
the report. A majority of the committee to investigate the character and
qualifications of a petitioner is not sufficient. All must report, the lodge
being entitled to the information derived from three sources of inquiry.

Sec. 3. The Master may grant a committee appointed on petition for
degrees or membership more time, and in case any of the committee fails
to report the Master may remove him and in open lodge appoint another
brother in his place, but the ballot shall not be taken before the next
stated meeting after a new member has been appointed.

Sec. 4. All petitions for membership shall state the name, number,
and location of the lodge of which the applicant was last a member, and
the name of the lodge in which he was made a Master Mason, and the
name of the grand lodge under which such lodge is or was working ; such
petition shall be accompanied by a dimit or other satisfactory evidence
that the petitioner has lawfully withdrawn from the lodge of which he
was last a member or has declared his intention to withdraw therefrom
in the manner prescribed by the law of the grand jurisdiction in which
he is affiliated ; or, if such membership has been lost in any other manner,
he must submit proof of his standing in the fraternity. Every such peti-
tion shall be recommended by three members of the lodge who vouch for

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the petitioner as a Master Mason, and shall be read, received and referred
in the same manner as petitions for degrees. If the petitioner is elected,
the documentary evidence shall be canceled and filed among the records
of the lodge; if rejected, the same shall be promptly returned to the
brother.

Sec. 5. Master Masons applying for membership shall not be re-
quired to state whether they have or have not applied to any other lodge;
nor shall the regulations of these by-laws concerning physical qualifica-
tions or jurisdictional residence whether residing in this state or else-
where, apply to such applicants ; nor shall any of the requirements of the
preceding sections (1 and 2) apply to Entered Apprentices or Fellow Crafts
seeking advancement in the lodge in which they were initiated or passed ;
but the requirements of said Sections 1, 2, and 3, Section 1 of Article 14,
and Section 2, of Article 15, shall apply to the petitions of Entered Ap-
prentices or Fellow Crafts seeking advancement in any lodge other than
the one in which they may have been initiated or passed. An applicant
having received the degree of Entered Apprentice or the degrees of En-
tered Apprentice and Fellow Craft in a lodge not having territorial juris-
diction, said applicant petitioning the lodge having jurisdiction, must again
pass the ordeal of the ballot. An Entered Apprentice or Fellow Craft,
after moving into the jurisdiction of Illinois, may petition the lodge in
whose jurisdiction he resides, for advancement, at any time: Provided,
that the lodge that conferred the degree or degrees upon him waive juris-
diction in favor of the lodge petitioned. The petitions being governed by
same rules that apply in case of petition for degrees.

Sec. 6. No lodge shall knowingly receive a petition for the degrees
from an applicant who has been rejected by, or who resides nearer to, an-
other lodge, without first obtaining the consent of such other lodge in
writing, unanimously granted by ballot at a stated meeting thereof and
certified under seal ; the substance of which certificate shall be entered of
record, but a lodge may receive the petition of an applicant who has been
rejected by a lodge not having jurisdiction, without obtaining the consent
of the rejecting lodge.

Sec. 7. No lodge can receive a petition for membership from a Ma-
son holding a dimit from a lodge working under the jurisdiction of any
Grand Orient or Grand Lodge to which this Grand Lodge has refused
recognition nor can a petition for degrees or membership be transmitted
by telegraph or telephone.

Sec. 8. Whenever a lodge shall grant permission to any other lodge to
receive the petition of a person residing within its jurisdiction, or of a re-
jected candidate, or an Entered Apprentice, or Fellow Craft, over whom
it may have lawful jurisdiction, it shall thereby be held to have perma-
nently relinquished the same, and the lodge receiving such permission

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shall thereby acquire lawful jurisdiction: Provided, that all such petitions
shall be subject to the laws governing original petitions for the degrees,
as defined in this and in the following article (14.)

Sec. 9. All requests for a waiver of jurisdiction must come from a
lodge which the applicant has petitioned, and jurisdiction is transferred to
said lodge if request is granted. All applications for waivers of jurisdic-
tion whether over original petitions for degrees, rejected candidates, En-
tered Apprentices or Fellow Crafts shall be read at a stated meeting and
lie over till the next stated meeting before being voted upon and in all
such cases except of rejected candidates the Master may appoint a com-
mittee of investigation if he deems it for the best interests of Masonry.

In all cases of waiver over original petitions or rejected candidates
the vote shall be by ballot and be unanimous — but in cases of waiver over
Entered Apprentices and Fellow Crafts, the vote may be by show of
hands and a majority vote is sufficient. If a waiver is granted in case of
a rejected candidate it does not confer upon him the right to petition
another lodge in less than one year from the date of his rejection.

Sec. 10. If the request for a waiver of jurisdiction is refused, it
may in cases of original petitioners be renewed after the lapse of six
months. In other cases it may be renewed at pleasure, though not oftener
than three times in any one year.

Sec. II. If a lodge grants permission to another lodge to complete
unfinished work, (that is, waives jurisdiction,) it thereby relinquishes its
claim upon the candidate and upon being regularly elected, receiving the
degrees and signing the by-laws he becomes a member of the lodge doing
the work. But if a lodge merely requests another to do work for it, and
the work is done, the applicant, becomes a member of the first lodge, upon
signing its by-laws in person or by proxy appointed in writing.

Sec. 12. A lodge may refuse to waive jurisdiction over an Entered
Apprentice or Fellow Craft, but, waiving jurisdiction, it cannot make con-
ditions, pecuniary or otherwise, as to its assumption by another lodge.

Sec. 13. Action of a lodge requesting, or consenting to, the con-
ferring of degrees on its material by another lodge may be rescinded by
vote of lodge before work is done. Action waiving jurisdiction cannot be
rescinded.

Sec. 14. When a lodge waives jurisdiction over an Entered Appren-
tice, or a Fellow Craft, who has paid in advance the fees for all the de-
grees, it should refund that portion of the fees for which it has not given
an equivalent in degrees.

Sec. 15. When a candidate after being rejected by one lodge removes
into the jurisdiction of another, neither lodge can receive his petition with-
out first obtaining the consent of the other, granted by unanimous ballot.

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Sec. 16. When an Entered Apprentice or Fellow Craft removes from
the jurisdiction of his lodge and it surrenders or loses its charter he cannot
become a member of another lodge without election therein nor be ad-
vanced without the consent of the lodge that requires jurisdiction over the
territory of the defunct lodge.

Sec. 17. Waiver of Jurisdiction over material residing in territory
possesed in common by two or more lodges may be granted only by the
lodge located nearest to the home or residence of the petitioner, and when
several lodges are equally near then the petition shall be filed with the
oldest of said lodges. Request for such waiver shall be referred to an
investigating committee and duly notified to all other lodges holding con-
current jurisdiction and a vote taken at the next or some subsequent stated
communication.

Sec. 18. No petition for the degrees shall be withdrawn or returned,
after having been received by a lodge, unless the same shall be balloted
upon and rejected, in which case the fee accompanying the same shall be
returned to the applicant : Provided, that where a lodge has by mistake
received and referred a petition of an applicant who resides within the
jurisdiction of any other lodge, or from one disqualified by lack of resi-
dence or otherwise, the petition with the fee shall be returned without
balloting, unless preceding Section 6, and other requirements of these by-
laws when applicable, shall be complied with.

Sec. 19. The petition and the fee of a brother Master Mason applying
for membership may be withdrawn or returned upon written application
therefor, and the concurrence of a majority of the members present at a
stated meeting of the lodge.

Article 14.

BALLOTING.

Section i. No ballot shall be taken upon a petition for any degree or
for membership at any other than a stated communication, nor in less
than four weeks from the time the petition was received and referred, ex-
cept by dispensation from the Grand Master, nor unless there be present
at such stated communication at least seven members of the lodge. One
clear ballot entitles the petitioner to the three degrees, but if an Entered
Apprentice or Fellow Craft transfers his allegiance to another lodge, his
petition for the remaining degree or degrees must again pass the ordeal
of the ballot.

Sec. 2. In balloting upon petitions for the degrees or for member-
ship the same shall be acted upon separately, and every member of the
lodge present shall vote ; nor shall any member be excused from this duty
except at his own request and by unanimous consent of the other members

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present. The balloting does not necessarily follow the order in which the
petitions were received.

Sec. 3. The ballot shall be had upon all petitions for the degrees,
whether the report thereon is favorable or unfavorable (unless it shall
appear as provided in Section 18 of the last preceding article, that the
lodge has no jurisdiction), and shall be upon the moral, mental, and
physical qualifications of the applicant. The vote to elect to the degrees,

or to membership, must be unanimous.

I
Sec. 4. The right of every member of lodge to the secret ballot for
the degrees or for membership is inherent and absolute, and the lawful
and legitimate exercise of such rights shall not be questioned by the Mas-
ter, the lodge, the Grand Master, or the Grand Lodge; and if any mem-
ber shall be proved to have been actuated by unworthy motives in the
exercise of this right, or shall willfully use the ballot to interrupt the legiti-
mate labors, or mar the peace and harmony of the lodge, or shall expose
the character of his own vote before, at the time of, or after casting it, or
shall attempt to ascertain the character of the vote of any other member,
he shall be liable to Masonic discipline and punishment. The Tyler, if a
member of the lodge, has a right to vote therein if he insists upon this
privilege, but the Master may at his request excuse him from the exercise
of this right.

Sec. 5. When a ballot is in progress, it shall not be suspended or
postponed, nor shall any ballot be reconsidered under any pretense what-
ever, except for the purposes and in the manner prescribed in Section 3,
of Article 15, Part 2.

Sec. 6. No debate shall be permitted in open lodge upon the merits
or demerits of any candidate, at or before the time of balloting. The
secret vote of each member is the only legal expression of his opinion.

Sec. 7. After the ballot has been taken and duly examined, first by
the Wardens, and finally by the Master, if only one negative vote appears
the Master may order a second trial of the ballot, the result of which
shall, in all cases, be final and conclusive, and shall be then and there so
declared by the Master ; and such declaration shall not be set aside by the
Master, the lodge, the Grand Master, or the Grand Lodge, except as pro-
vided in Section 3 of the succeeding article (15) ; the result only, viz.,
"elected" or "rejected," shall be made known.

Article 15.

REJECTIONS.

Section i. Any candidate for the degrees who has been rejected in
a lodge having jurisdiction may renew his application after the expiration
of one year from the date of such rejection, to the same lodge only, if it

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be in existence: Provided, that such lodge may waive jurisdiction, as
provided in Sections 6 and 8, of Article 13, Part 2. The personal juris-
diction which a lodge acquires over a candidate by rejecting his petition
for the degrees is not affected by the lapse of time, nor by his removal
elsewhere.

Sec. 2. Any brother whose application for membership has been re-
jected may renew his application to the same or to any other lodge, with-
out regard to time or place; the rejection of the petition of a brother for
membership shall not affect his Masonic standing.

Sec. 3. When any candidate for the degrees has been rejected by
any lodge through mistake or misapprehension, such lodge may correct
such error at the same or any subsequent stated meeting, in the following
manner only, viz. : the member or members who have balloted in the nega-
tive by mistake, or under misapprehension, shall announce the same in
open lodge, and the number of such members, if more than one, shall cor-
respond with the number of negative ballots by which the candidate was
rejected. All the members present at the time of the first ballot shall have
due notice of the time such ballot will be renewed.

Sec. 4. When a candidate is declared rejected the money which ac-
companied his petiton shall be regularly withdrawn from the treasury and
returned to him by the Secretary who shall distinctly inform him of his
rejection. This information shall be conveyed to him in person, if prac-
ticable, and if communicated to any other non-Mason, the offender shall
be subject to Masonic discipline.

Sec. 5. Any Mason who, concealing the fact of such rejection, shall
knowingly assist or recommend for initiation to any lodge any candidate
who has been rejected by a lodge, without first having lawful permission
of said rejecting lodge, shall be liable to Masonic discipline; and any
candidate who may receive the degrees by false representation, or through
deception, shall be brought to trial and punished, as the lodge may de-
termine.

Article 16.

OBJECTIONS.

Section i. Any Master Mason who is a member of a lodge may raise
well grounded objections to the initiation or advancement of candidates
in such lodge.

Sec. 2. If any member of a lodge shall express to the Master an
objection to the initiation of a candidate, after such candidate shall have
been elected, such objection shall be respected; nor shall the objector's
identity be revealed nor his reasons be demanded by the Master of the
lodge; but the objection shall be entered of record, and shall stand as a

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bar against the candidate for the term of one year, unless sooner with-
drawn by the objector. The fee, if any, accompanying the petition, shall,
in such case, be immediately returned to the petitioner. When the initia-
tion of a candidate is stayed by objection, he may be initiated after the
lapse of one year from the time such objection was made and entered of
record, without a new petition and election, unless objection is again made,
but objection may be renewed at any time during the year or new objec-
tion made by the same or another member, and in either case shall hold
good for one year from the time of renewal or making.

Sec. 3. Whenever objection is made by any member of a lodge to
the advancement of a brother therein, to the second or third degree, the
reasons therefor must be made known, if required by the lodge or the
Master ; or the matter may be referred to a committee, with power to
inquire into such reasons, who shall report thereon to the lodge as soon
as practicable. Upon the reception of such report, if no cause for objec-
tion has been assigned, or if the reasons assigned be, in the opinion of the
majority of the members present, insufficient, the lodge may confer the de-
gree in the same manner as if no objection had been made; but if the
reasons assigned shall be deemed to be sufficient to stay the degree, the
candidate shall be entitled, upon application, to trial upon the alleged
objections. A brother who in the exercise of the right of objection is
proved to be actuated by unworthy motives, or who maliciously uses it
to interrupt the legitimate labors, or to mar the peace and harmony of the
lodge, is liable to discipline and punishment.

Sec. 4. Objections to either initiation or advancement, when made by
a brother not a member of the lodge having jurisdiction, shall be subject
to the provisions of the last preceding section.

Sec. 5. When objections are entertained against a brother seeking
advancement, and such brother demands trial, the objections must be
formulated into charges and the trial thereof is to be conducted as laid
down in the Grand Lodge By-Laws. The status of an Entered Appren-
tice or Fellow Craft would depend upon the result of such trial, viz. :
acquittal, expulsion, suspension, or reprimand.

Sec. 6. An objection to the initiation of a legally elected candidate,
to be operative, must be made before the order is given to prepare him.

Sec. 7. No candidate whose initiation or advancement is stayed by
personal objection shall be recorded or published as rejected, and lodges
are not required to report such stay to the Grand Secretary.

Article 17.

FEES.

Section i. No lodge under the jurisdiction of this Grand Lodge shall
be permitted to confer the three degrees upon any person for a less sum

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than twenty-five dollars : Provided, that in the city of Chicago the mini-
mum fee for the three degrees shall be fifty dollars; and the apportion-
ment of such sum to the degrees, respectively, shall be regulated by the
'by-laws of each lodge.

Sec. 2. No lodge shall confer any degree or admit to membership
until the prescribed fee shall have been paid to the proper officer, nor shall
any written or verbal promise to pay the same be received in lieu thereof,
nor any portion of the fee remitted in any case, either directly or indirectly.

Sec. 3. Where one lodge confers a degree for another the lodge that
does the work can collect only such fee as is charged by the lodge for
which the work is done.

Sec. 4. The secretary should pay over to the treasurer the fees of
an applicant for the degrees as soon as received. If the petitioner is re-
jected the lodge should draw an order at once and return the fee to the
applicant. In no case should the lodge use any part of the fee until the
petitioner has been elected.

Sec. 5. Any candidate failing to appear for initiation within one year
after his election, except for good cause, of which the lodge shall be the
judge, and for which by a majority vote it may excuse him, must again
petition the lodge and be subject to laws governing presentation of first
petition. The lodge, for good reasons, may credit candidate with the fees
paid with first petition.

Article; 18.

CONFERRING DEGREES.

Section i. No lodge shall confer any degree upon any person who
declines to conform to any requirement of Masonry or to the rules and
regulations of this Grand Lodge. No exceptions shall be made in favor
of any particular person or candidate.

Sec. 2. No candidate shall be advanced to the second or third degree
until he shall have passed a satisfactory examination in open lodge upon
his Masonic proficiency, unless by dispensation of the Grand Master. The
test of the Masonic proficiency of a candidate for advancement may be de-
cided by the Master or by a majority vote of the members present. A
brother may be advanced at any meeting of the lodge, subsequent to the
day on which he received the degree after being duly examined and found
proficient as herein required, if not contrary to lodge by-laws.

Sec. 3. No candidate shall receive more than one degree on the same
day, except by dispensation of the Grand Master, nor shall any part of
the work be omitted, abridged or shortened, nor any work be used save
that adopted by the Grand Lodge, and taught by the authorized lecturers.
The explanatory parts of the Entered Apprentice Degree, the second sec-

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tion of the Fellow Craft Degree, the historical account in the Master
Mason's Degree, and the charge in each degree may be given to more
than one candidate at the same time, but all other parts of the degrees
must be given in full to each candidate separately.

Sec. 14. There is no limit of time within which an Entered Appren-
tice or Fellow Craft may be required to advance; his advancement must
be of his own free will and accord.

Article 19.

VISITORS.

Section i. It is the privilege of every Master Mason in good stand-
ing to visit a lodge; subject, however, to the right of the lodge, or any
member thereof, to object' to his admission as a visitor.

Sec. 2. Objection to a proposed visitor by a member, lodged with
the Master of his lodge, is not valid during the absence of the objector.

Sec. 3. A member of a lodge can not be disciplined for objecting to
a brother, who is not a member, visiting the lodge. Nor can his reasons
for objecting be inquired into.

Sec. 4. Objection can not be made by a member to a District Deputy
Grand Master sitting in a lodge, while making an official visit.

Sec. 5. The application of a colored Mason to visit may be enter-
tained if he be lawfully made. Masonry knows no distinction of color.
The question is not one of race or complexion, but of legitimacy. The
right to visit is possessed equally by all, white or black, who, having been
made in a constituent lodge in this jurisdiction, or in a lodge subordinate to
any grand lodge recognized as legitimate by the Grand Lodge of Illinois,
still remains in good standing. None, black or white, possess the right
who lack these qualifications.

Sec. 6. No visitor shall be admitted to any lodge under this jurisdic-
tion unless lawfully vouched for as a Master Mason in good standing.
Documentary evidence alone shall not be sufficient to justify avouchment.
In addition to strict trial and due examination of his knowledge of Ma-
sonry, every lodge or committee shall require a strange visitor to affirm that
the lodge of which he is or was formerly a member is working under and
by virtue of a charter or dispensation issued by the Grand Lodge or Grand
Master recognized by this Grand Lodge as having jurisdiction over the
country, state, province, or territory in which such lodge may be situated.

Sec. 7. The legal information necessary to enable one Mason to
vouch for another may be acquired by sitting together in a regularly con-
stituted lodge of Masons, by an examination authorized by the proper
officer of a lodge or by one Mason definitely stating to another whom he

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knows to be a Mason that he vouches for a third then present with them
as a Mason. This information may be passed along indefinitely as long
as the conditions herein stated are met. No Mason can legally acquire the
necessary information to vouch for another by sitting with him in any
other body than a lodge of Ancient Craft Masons, nor unless the brother
vouched for is actually present.

Article 20.

DIM ITS.

Section i. All applications for dimits shall be made in writing, signed
by the applicant, be presented to the lodge at a stated communication,
shall be read in open lodge, and lie over until the next or some subsequent
stated meeting, when if the applicant's dues are paid, to the time when
his written application was presented, and there are no formal or written
charges against him, a dimit shall be granted and a record made thereof.
An applicant for dimission may withdraw his application at any moment
before the announcement that the dimit is granted has been made.

Sec. 2. A dimit shall date from the lodge record when the same shall
be granted, and membership ceases from and after such date ; the brother
so dimitted shall be entitled to a copy of such record; but should the Sec-
retary neglect to furnish such copy, or the brother refuse to receive the
same, such neglect or refusal shall not in any manner invalidate the joint
action of the applicant and the lodge.

Sec. 3. If any brother shall lose the certificate of his dimission, the
Secretary of the lodge shall, upon request and satisfactory proof of such
loss, furnish him another certificate, with the original date, and the fact
of re-issuance, which shall be entered upon the record.

Sec. 4. Entered Apprentices and Fellow Crafts shall not receive
dimits, but a lodge may grant them a certificate setting forth their status
in the lodge.

Sec. 5. A brother who has been tried on charges of un-Masonic con-
duct and acquitted, but in whose case an appeal is pending, shall not be
permitted to dimit until the case is finally disposed of.

Sec. 6. When a member of a lodge desires to change his member-
ship to another lodge and wishes to know whether he will be accepted by
it before severing his connection with his lodge, he shall give his lodge
notice in writing of his intentions. This notice shall be read in open lodge
at a stated meeting and lie over till the next or some subsequent stated
meeting, when, if there are no formal charges against him and his dues
are paid three months in advance, the Secretary shall issue to him a cer-
tificate under seal of the lodge showing that the dues have been paid as
aforesaid and stating for what purpose the certificate is issued. This cer-

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tificate may be deposited with his petition in the lodge he wishes to join
at any time within three months of its date and be treated as the neces-
sary documentary evidence referred to in Section 4, Article 13, Part 2,
of these by-laws. If he is elected to membership in the petitioned lodge,
the Secretary thereof shall immediately notify the first lodge and the
petitioner's membership therein shall cease from the time such notice is
received. If such notice is not received within three months from the date
of the certificate, he shall forfeit any rights and privileges acquired by
means of it, be still a member of the original lodge and chargeable with
dues therein. Nothing in this section shall operate to change the law re-
garding dimits or affiliation thereon — nor shall it be construed to permit a
change of membership from one lodge to another except by regular dimit
if both lodges are in the same city or town.

Article 21.

NON-AFFILIATED MASONS.

Section i. It is contrary to the usages and precepts of the Masonic
fraternity to reside within the jurisdiction of a regular lodge without
making an effort to become a member thereof.

Sec. 2. Voluntary non-affiliated Masons shall not be permitted to
take part in any of the ceremonies of the lodge, nor shall they of right be
entitled to any of the privileges or benefits of Masonry, such as Masonic
burial, uniting in Masonic processions or celebrations ; nor shall they or
their families have any claim upon the fraternity for pecuniary aid in cases
of misfortune or distress : Provided, that nothing herein shall be con-
strued to deprive a lodge or any member thereof of the right to render to
a non-affiliated Mason aid and assistance, Masonic burial, or any fraternal
courtesy (except the privileges of the lodge, when objection is made)
they may deem just and proper. If in such cases relief is extended or
any privileges granted it shall be done as a courtesy and not accorded as
a right.

Sec. 3. Non-affiliated Masons shall be subject to the discipline of
the lodge in whose jurisdiction they may reside for any violation of moral
or Masonic law.

Article 22.

SPECIAL DISPENSATION.

Section i. All applications to the Grand Master for dispensations to
confer any degree shall emanate from a lodge at a stated or special com-
munication, and be concurred in by the unanimous vote of the members
present at such meeting; and such application shall set forth fully and
clearly the emergency, under the seal of the lodge, and be signed by the
Master and Secretary.

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Sec. 2. All applications for special purposes, not otherwise provided
for, may emanate from the Master.

Sec. 3. The fee for dispensations shall accompany the petition there-
for to the Grand Master.

Sec. 4. Every dispensation shall be entered upon the records of the
lodge, and prompt report made to the Grand Master of the doings by
authority thereof.

Article 23.

LODGES UNDER DISPENSATION.

Section i. The formation of new lodges shall be subject to the
provisions of Article 13 of the constitution.

Sec. 2. No petition to form a new lodge shall be granted by the
Grand Master, or ordered by the Grand Lodge, unless the petition shall
state the name, number, and location of the respective lodges to which
the petitioners belong, or, if unaffiliated, of which they last were members.

Sec. 3. No dispensation shall be granted unless the petitioners shall
have procured a suitable and safe room, with convenient ante-rooms, in
which to conduct Masonic ceremonies, nor unless the material in the pro-
posed jurisdiction shall be sufficient to sustain a healthy and reputable
lodge.

Sec. 4. Every petition for a new lodge shall set forth the proposed
name thereof; the names of the brethren nominated for the first Master
and Wardens ; the name of the county and place of the proposed location ;
the population of such place; the time of holding the meetings; the num-
ber and location of the three nearest lodges, and the distance of each
from the location of the proposed new lodge : Provided, that no new
lodge shall be named for any living person.

Sec. 5. No dispensation shall be granted for a new lodge if the pro-
posed location is within ten miles of any other lodge in this jurisdiction,
unless such other lodge has sixty or more members or unless the new lodge
is to be located in a town or city having at least five thousand inhabitants.

Sec. 6. Every petition for a new lodge shall be accompanied with the
dimits of all non-affiliated petitioners and lodge certificates that all dues
have been paid by all affiliated petitoners, to the date of the next meeting
of the Grand Lodge.

Sec. 7. In the formation of a new lodge the recommending lodges
must be chartered lodges. Every recommendation for the formation of a
new lodge emanating from a chartered lodge shall certify to the truth of
the statements contained in the petition under consideration, and no rec-
ommendation shall be granted by any lodge without the affirmative ballot

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of two-thirds of the members present at a stated communication. Such
recommendation shall set forth the date of the meetings of the lodge at
which the request was received and acted upon, the number of votes cast
tor and against the same, and the number of members belonging to the
lodge so recommending. Any three lodges in a city where concurrent
jurisdiction exists may recommend the formation of a new lodge in such
city. In all places outside of such concurrent jurisdiction it must be the
three nearest lodges whether within or without corporate limits: Pro-
vided, that when the nearest lodges are within the city the consent of the
outside lodges whose territorial jurisdiction is abridged must also be
obtained.

Sec. 8. Whenever a chartered lodge shall recommend the formation
of a new lodge, it shall be held to thereby cede territorial jurisdiction to
the new lodge.

Sec. 9. No charter shall issue to a lodge under dispensation until it
shall have conferred the degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft,
and Master Mason, in manner and form as prescribed by the laws and
regulations of this Grand Lodge.

Sec. 10. Every lodge while working under dispensation shall strictly
conform to the requirements of Section 1, Article 3, Part 2, of these by-
laws, except those of Clause 7, and so much of Clause 1 of said section as
refers to election and installation of officers.

Sec. 11. Every dispensation shall be copied at length upon the rec-
ords of the lodge, and the charter, when issued, shall be recorded in like
manner.

Sec. 12. Every lodge under dispensation shall- make its returns to
the Grand Lodge on or before the first day of September next succeeding
the date of its dispensation, and shall transmit therewith its letter of dis-
pensation, a copy of its by-laws, and a record of its proceedings. After
making such return no lodge meeting shall be held until the Grand Lodge
shall grant a charter, and the requirements of Section 14 of this article
are complied with.

Sec. 13. All lodges organized under dispensation after the first of
July shall be exempt from so much of the requirements of the last preced-
ing section as refer to the time of making returns, but shall fully comply
therewith at the annual grand communication to be held one year there-
after : Provided, that the continuance of such dispensation shall be sanc-
tioned by an indorsement thereon by the Grand Master.

Sec. 14. Every newly chartered lodge shall be duly constituted, and
its officers properly installed, by the Grand Master or his special repre-
sentative, assisted by an occasional Grand Lodge, before said new lodge
can work or do business under its charter. As soon as a lodge is consti-

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tuted it shall cause to be prepared a code of by-laws which shall be sub-
mitted to the Grand Master, and upon his approval the said code as
approved shall be submitted to the lodge for adoption.

Sec. 15. Every lodge under dispensation shall pay dues as prescribed
in Clause 6, Section 1, Article II, Part 1.

Sec. 16. A brother joining in a petition for a dispensation for a new
lodge shall not thereby sever his membership from the chartered lodge of
which he may be a member, but shall be liable for dues to the new lodge
from the date of the dispensation and to the chartered lodge to the date
of the charter issued to the new lodge, unless he shall be sooner dimitted.

Sec. 17. A brother on becoming a charter member of a new lodge
shall be thereby dimitted from the elder lodge, and the Master of the new
lodge shall cause immediate notice to be sent to the elder lodge of the name
of such member : Provided, that this section shall not be so construed as
to permit a member of a lodge in another jurisdiction to become a mem-
ber of a chartered lodge in this jurisdiction until he has obtained a regu-
lar dimit from the lodge of which he was a member, or has honorably
withdrawn.

Sec. 18. A petition for a charter should contain only the names of
the brethren contained in the original letters of dispensation and the names
of such brethren as may have been made Masons while the lodge was
working under dispensation. These brethren cannot be debarred from
signing the petition for a charter, nor shall any other names than those
specified be entered in the charter.

Sec. 19. The Master of a lodge under dispensation shall not be amen-
able to discipline by any chartered lodge during his official term; but in
case such dispensation be annulled, or a charter withheld, the lodge of
original jurisdiction may take cognizance of the conduct of such Master,
unless the same shall be of a strictly official character.

Sec. 20. A lodge under dispensation shall have a code of by-laws,
conforming to the laws and regulations of the Grand Lodge.

Article 24.

ANNUAL RETURNS.

Section i. The fiscal year of all constituent lodges shall commence
on the first day of July and end on the thirtieth day of June of each year,
and the returns of work, and the payment of Grand Lodge dues, shall be
made accordingly. Said returns, together with the Grand Lodge dues of
each and every lodge, shall be filed with and paid to the Grand Secretary
on or before the first day of August of each year. If said returns are not
made, and Grand Lodge dues (which should accompany the returns) are

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not paid on or before the fifteenth day of August of each year, the repre-
sentative of no lodge thus delinquent shall be paid any mileage or per
diem. Such returns shall be transmitted by mail, express, or some other
reliable expeditious mode to the Grand Secretary. They shall embrace a
complete list of officers and members ; of all initiations, passings, and rais-
ings; of all admissions, rejections, suspensions, expulsions, restorations,
dimits and deaths, with their respective dates; the number of miles from
its location to the place of meeting of the Grand Lodge by the usually
traveled route; and such other matters as may be required by the blank
form ; which returns shall be attested by the seal of the lodge and signed
by the Master and Secretary.

Article 25.

ANNUAL DUES.

Section i. Every lodge under this jurisdiction shall, on or before
the first day of August annually, pay into the treasury of the Grand Lodge,
through the Grand Secretary, the sum of ninety cents for each Master
Mason belonging to such lodge at the time of making the annual returns.
Of this ninety cents the sum of fifty-five cents shall be for the General
Fund and thirty-five cents for the Charity Fund, subject to such appro-
priations from time to time as the Grand Lodge may direct.

Sec. 2. Any lodge that shall neglect or refuse to pay its annual dues
shall forfeit all claim for mileage and per diem ; and should such neglect
or refusal continue for two successive years the warrant or charter shall
be suspended and the effects of the lodge disposed of, as provided in Sec-
tion 5, Article 27, Part 2, of these by-laws : Provided, that for satisfac-
tory reasons for a failure to comply with the foregoing requirements, and
upon making full returns, and paying all back dues, the charter and other
effects of such lodge may be restored by the Grand Lodge upon a vote of
two-thirds of the members present at a stated annual communication.

Sec. 3. Where a lodge is in arrears for Grand Lodge dues for more
than one year any payment made must be applied to the dues of the year
farthest back. A representative of a constituent lodge is not entitled to
mileage and per diem unless all Grand Lodge dues are fully paid.

Article 26.

representation in grand lodge, and proxies.

Section i. Whenever the Master or Wardens of a lodge shall be
unable to attend the communication of the Grand Lodge the officer who
cannot so attend may depute any member of his own lodge in good stand-
ing as his proxy to represent the lodge in Grand Lodge and the proxy so
deputed shall be entitled to the same privileges and subject to the same

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penalties as the officer deputing him ; such deputizing shall be in writing
and signed by the officer appointing the proxy.

Sec. 2. No brother shall represent more than one lodge at the same
time, either as an official representative or as a proxy ; and all commis-
sions of proxies shall expire with the closing of the Grand Lodge.

Article 27.

DISSOLUTION OF LODGES.

Section i. A lodge may be dissolved —

1. By the voluntary surrendering of its charter.

2. By a revocation of its charter by the Grand Lodge.

Sec. 2. The charter of a lodge may be surrendered if the proposition
be presented to a stated communication thereof, and the same be acted
upon at a subsequent stated communication, of which all the members
whose residence is known shall have due and timely notice; but no char-
ter can be surrendered as long as seven Master Masons, members of the
lodge, desire to continue to work under it, in accordance with the laws
of Masonry, and the laws and regulations of this Grand Lodge.

Sec. 3. The charter of a lodge may be revoked or suspended —

1. For disobedience to any provision of the constitution, laws, or regu-
lations of the Grand Lodge.

2. For violation or neglect of the generally recognized usages of the
craft.

3. For disregard to the lawful authority of the Grand Master.

4. For a failure to meet during a period of six successive months.

5. For a failure to make returns or pay its dues to the Grand Lodge
for two successive years.

Sec. 4. No charter shall be suspended or revoked except for cause,
of which the lodge shall have due notice, and an opportunity to be heard.

Sec. 5. Upon the revocation or suspension of the charter of any
lodge, or if from any other cause a lodge shall become dormant, it shall
be the duty of the last Master, Treasurer, or Secretary thereof to sur-
render to the District Deputy Grand Master (subject to the orders of
the Grand Master) the warrant, books, papers, jewels, furniture, moneys,
or other property belonging to said lodge, within two months from the
time of such revocation, suspension or becoming dormant, and every mem-
ber of a lodge who shall refuse to make such surrender, or who shall, by
vote or otherwise, make any other disposition of said effects than as
herein designated, shall be liable to Masonic discipline for violating the
laws and regulations of the Grand Lodge. All moneys accruing from
property as herein prescribed shall belong to, and be placed in the Charity

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Fund of this Grand Lodge, as provided in Section 5, Article 12, Part 1, of
these by-laws.

Sec. 6. If at any time it shall be found necessary to suspend or re-
voke the warrant or charter of any lodge under this jurisdiction for irregu-
lar or un-Masonic conduct, the members of such lodge implicated in such
conduct shall be subject to discipline by the lodge acquiring jurisdiction.

Sec. 7. Upon the dissolution of a lodge for any cause its members
who are not subject to the provisions of the last preceding section, upon
payment of any back dues to the Grand Secretary, shall be entitled to a
certificate from that officer, setting forth their Masonic standing, which
certificate shall be recognized in this jurisdiction in lieu of a regular dimit.

Sec. 8. Whenever any lodge shall cease to work for six months the
next nearest lodge or lodges may exercise jurisdiction over the territor}
and act upon petitions from citizens residing therein, unless cause for such
cessations shall be presented to and be deemed satisfactory by the Grand
Master.

Sec. 9. When a lodge has taken action in any matter and has after-
ward ceased to exist any further action required or authorized by law,
including the completion of unfinished work, shall be performed by the
lodge acquiring jurisdiction, but Entered Apprentices or Fellow Crafts
so advanced shall not become members of said lodge without being duly
elected therein.

Sec. 10. A lodge whose functions have been suspended by Grand
Master does not lose jurisdiction over its rejected material until its char-
ter has been declared vacated by the Grand Lodge.

Sec. 11. When a lodge ceases to exist its rejected material can peti-
tion any lodge having territorial or concurrent jurisdiction, as provided
in Section 1, Article 15. Personal jurisdiction belongs to the lodge and
ceases when it becomes defunct.

Sec. 12. Any Mason who shall be present at or assist in the work of
a lodge, knowing its charter or warrant to have been suspended or re-
voked, shall be liable to discipline.

Sec. 13. When any charter shall be declared vacated by the Grand
Lodge, it shall be erased from the register, and its number shall not be
again used upon a charter in this jurisdiction.

Article 28.

CONSOLIDATION OF LODGES.

Section i. Any two or more lodges may consolidate their member-
ship into one lodge.: Provided, that the proposition for such consolida-
tion shall be presented at a stated communication of the lodges interested,

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and shall not be acted upon until a subsequent stated meeting, of which
all the resident members shall have due notice; and such consolidation
shall only be effected by the unanimous vote of the members present when
such proposition shall be acted upon.

Sec. 2. When any consolidation shall have been so effected, and the
Grand Lodge or Grand Master officially informed of the same, a new spe-
cial charter shall be issued without fee, containing the names of the new
officers, and bearing the number of one of the said lodges and such name
as may have been selected.

Sec. 3. The title to all property and effects of the lodges so united
sball be vested in the lodge named in the new charter; and such new lodge
shall be duly constituted, and its officers installed by the Grand Master or
his proxy, before it shall lawfully act under said charter.

Article 29.

CHARTER.

Section i. Whenever the charter of a lodge shall be destroyed, stolen,
or surreptitiously taken and detained, without the fault of the lodge or
Master, it shall be the duty of the Grand Lodge or Grand Master to cause
a duplicate charter to issue, without fee, bearing the original name and
number, together with the names of the original Grand Officers and char-
ter members, supplemented with the cause of its issue, and signed by the
Grand Master and Grand Secretary, and attested by the seal of the Grand
Lodge.

Sec. 2. The Master shall have the custody and care of the charter
of the lodge at all times and it should be present at all the meetings of the
lodge, but its temporary absence through accident or other unavoidable
cause shall not invalidate the actions of the lodge so long as no act of the
Grand Lodge or Grand Master has suspended the functions of the lodge.

Sec. 3. Whenever the charter of a lodge shall become so defaced or
illegible as to be unfit for use, the Grand Lodge or Grand Master may,
upon satisfactory proof of such information, and the payment of five dol-
lars into the Grand Lodge treasury, cause a new charter to issue in the
manner provided in Section i, of this article.

Sec. 4. When a lodge desires to change its name a resolution to that
effect embodying the new name shall be introduced at a stated meeting,
and action thereon deferred to the next or some subsequent stated meet-
ing. Notice of the proposed change and the date of voting thereon shall
be given to all resident members. If the "proposed change is favored by
a two-thirds ballot, the Secretary shall, under seal, certify the fact to the
Grand Secretary thirty days previous to the next meeting of the Grand
Lodge, and he shall transmit the same to the Committee on Petitions. If

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the Grand Lodge consents to the change, the Grand Master, Wardens and
Secretary shall sign a proper certificate to be appended to the lodge charter.

Article 30.

SUMMONS.

Section i. Every summons issued by a chartered lodge shall be writ-
ten or printed, attested by the seal of the lodge, and signed by the Master
or Secretary ; no other matter than the requisition to attend a meeting
of the lodge need be inserted. An instrument of writing designed for a
summons, no matter how worded, is not a summons unless personally
served ; sent through the mail it becomes simply a notice.

Sec. 2. Every Mason shall faithfully obey a summons issued by the
lodge and duly served upon him, if within his power; and for a failure
so to do shall be liable to discipline in the manner provided by law, un-
less excused for reasons satisfactory to a majority of the members present
at a stated meeting of the lodge.

Sec. 3. The Master of every lodge shall require due return to be made
upon a summons of the service thereof.

Sec. 4. No general summons shall be issued except for purposes of
importance to the lodge or Masonry.

Article 31.

NOTICE.

Section i. In a city or town where there is more than one lodge it
shall be the duty of the Secretary of each lodge to give notice in writing
to all other lodges situate in such city or town of all petitions for degrees
received or rejected, stating the name in full, age, occupation, and place
of residence of the petitioner : Provided, that when more than one lodge
shall hold its meetings in the same hall or room, a register may be kept
upon the Secretary's desk, or other appropriate place, in lieu of said writ-
ten notice, setting forth the aforesaid particulars for the information of
the lodges meeting in such hall ; and provided further that said require-
ment as to notice shall not apply to petition for membership by affiliation.

Article 32.

miscellaneous provisions.

Section i. No brother shall act as a Grand or Deputy Grand Lec-
turer within the State of Illinois without a commission from the Grand
Master, nor unless he shall be a present or actual Past Master.

Sec. 2. Every document or paper whatsoever, designed for Masonic

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use, emanating irom a chartered lodge, to be valid, shall have an impres-
sion of its seal affixed and be attested by the Secretary.

Sec. 3. No Mason under this jurisdiction shall appear in any public
procession, nor in any private or public assembly, with Masonic clothing,
unless under the auspices of some regular lodge ; nor shall any lodge un-
less by special dispensation of the Grand Master, take part in any public
procession, except to perform or assist in some ceremony recognized as
strictly Masonic, such as burying the fraternal dead, public installation of
officers, laying corner-stones, dedicating Masonic halls, etc. No Masonic
lodge can properly be seen in public merely for show or to help others to
make a show. Lodges cannot act as escort to any other body, whether
that other organization be composed in part or wholly of Masons.

Sec. 4. The use of Masonic emblems and devices on business cards
or signs, or by way of advertisement, except for legitimate Masonic pur-
poses, is strictly forbidden.

Sec. 5. No lodge shall, on any pretense, introduce intoxicating liquors
or permit their use as a beverage, in any room used by such lodge.

Sec. 6. All lodges and the members thereof are strictly forbidden to
give, or attempt to give, the aid or countenance of Masonry, in organized
or individual form, to any raffle, lottery or gift enterprise.

Sec. 7. No Mason shall give the Masonic name to any business con-
cern, association, or calling organized or prosecuted for profit or for a
livelihood. No Mason shall use, or be a party to the using, of the Ma-
sonic name as a part of the style and title or designation of any business
firm, concern, company, association, or enterprise, unless such business
shall be the printing or publishing of Masonic books, papers or periodicals,
or the manufacture and sale of Masonic supplies.

BY-LAWS OF THE
MOST WORSHIPFULGRAND LODGE

Of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons.
OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS.

PART 3.

Relative to Disciplinary Proceedings.

Article i.

PENAL POWERS OF A LODGE.

Section i. Every lodge shall have the right to exercise discipline
over all its members, wherever residing, and over all unaffiliated, as well
as affiliated Masons (except present Masters or the Grand Master), re-
siding or sojourning within its territorial jurisdiction, for any violation
of moral or Masonic law.

Sec. 2. Any member of a lodge may prefer charges against an offend-
ing brother; but to further the adminstration of justice it shall be the spe-
cial duty of the Junior Warden, in the absence of other accusers, to take
step-s to bring to trial all Masonic offenders.

Sec. 3. In case of offending Masons who are members of any other
lodge, the lodge within whose jurisdiction the offender resides, or is so-
journing, shall, in case the offender shall be suspended or expelled, give
notice thereof to the lodge of which he may be or shall have last been
a member. An unaffiliated Mason residing within the jurisdiction of one
lodge and having his place of business in another is sojourning in the lat-
ter, and is amenable to its lodge for any Masonic offense committed
therein.

Sec 4. A suspended Mason, charged with un-Masonic conduct, which,
if established, would justify a greater punishment than he is undergoing,
may be arraigned for trial and if found guilty adequate punishment be
inflicted.

Sec 5. A lodge cannot, by its by-laws, deprive a brother of his rights,
except as the result of a trial and judgment, nor can the relation a Mason
sustains to the fraternity at the time of his death be changed.

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Sec. 6. No lodge, or member thereof, shall publish in any newspaper,
magazine, pamphlet, or circular, or otherwise make public the details or
result of any trial therein.

Sec. 7. The presence of visitors in a lodge during any of the pro-
ceedings of a Masonic trial shall be optional with the lodge or the Master.

Article 2.

MASONIC OFFENSES.

Section i. The offenses of which a lodge may take cognizance, and
to which it shall give full, fair, and lawful trial and upon conviction ad-
minister adequate punishment, are immorality, and particularly acts which
tend to impair the good name of Masonry, or which violate Masonic obli-
gations, or the laws and regulations of this Grand Lodge.

Sec 2. Lodges shall not take cognizance of difficulties of a legal char-
acter growing out of business transactions between brethren, nor enter-
tain charges against a brother for the purpose of adjusting mere legal
rights, pecuniary or otherwise, unless such charges shall clearly specify
fraud on the part of alleged offender.

Sec 3. The Master of any lodge shall not permit any charges or
specifications, or any other subject matter, either written or oral, involv-
ing questions of a political or sectarian character, to be read in, or in
any manner presented to, the lodge.

Article 3.

presentation of charges and specifications.

Section i. All charges of un-Masonic conduct shall be made in writ-
ing specifying with reasonable certainty the character of the offense al-
leged, and the time and place of its commission, as near as may be prac-
ticable, and be signed by the accuser, who must be an affiliated Master
Mason in good standing. Charges must be so explicit that the accused
will have a fair understanding of what he has to meet. If a Master dis-
covers that the lodge has entertained charges manifestly too vague, he
should, in his official capacity, refuse to proceed until they can be prop-
erly framed.

Sec. 2. All charges and specifications shall be filed with the Secre-
tary of the lodge; if received at a stated meeting, they shall be then and
there read ; if received during recess of the lodge, said charges shall be
read at the next stated communication thereafter, of which meeting all the
resident members shall have due notice : Provided, that in cases where
the magnitude of an offense demands, or where the lodge or the Master
shall deem it for the best interests of Masonry, the matter may be laid
before the Grand Master, and by authority of his dispensation said charges

APPENDIX — PART III. 53

may be read and received at a special communication of the lodge, called
for the purpose, of which due notice shall be given the resident members.
Sec. 3. The trial of charges may proceed at any meeting appointed
for the purpose, and continue until completed.

Sec. 4. When a brother is charged with un-Masonic conduct, he be-
ing at the time in confinement for an offense against the state, the lodge
need not, after having given him due notice and reasonable time and op-
portunity to prepare his defense, wait for his term of imprisonment to
expire, but may conduct the proceedings to a final issue without his pres-
ence,— as provided in Section 3 of the following article.

Sec. 5. In the trial of Masonic offenses there is no statute of limi-
tations.

Article 4.

RECEPTION of charges.

Section i. When charges shall be presented and read as provided in
Section 2 of the last preceding article, the lodge shall decide by a majority
vote whether the charges shall be accepted and the accused brother be
placed on trial ; when decided in the affirmative, the charges can not be
withdrawn except for cause shown, and by vote of two-thirds of the
members present; nor shall such charges be amended except by a major-
ity vote, of which proposed amendment the accused shall have due notice.

Sec. 2. Immediately upon the acceptance of charges by a lodge the
Master shall appoint the time and place for trial. It shall be the duty of
the Master to cause the accused to be served with a duly attested copy
of the charges and specifications, and a citation stating the time and place
appointed for the trial thereof, and to give notice of same to all resident
members of the lodge : Provided, that the accused shall be entitled to
reasonable time and opportunity to prepare his defense.

Sec. 3. If the accused shall neglect or refuse to attend in person,
after notice has been duly served on him, or if notice can not be served
on him personally, by reason of his residence being unknown, or beyond
the limits of the county in which the lodge is located, then a copy of such
notice shall be sent to him by mail, addressed to him at his last known
place of residence, and upon proof that the notice has been sent to him
as herein prescribed, the lodge at the time in such notice specified may
proceed without his presence, and conduct the proceedings to a final issue :
Provided, that at least one stated communication shall intervene between
the time of mailing such notice and any action by the lodge in pursuance
thereof. In such cases the lodge shall appoint a competent brother to act
in behalf of the accused, but this shall not be construed to give said repre-
sentative any claim against the lodge for services unless the lodge specific-
ally agrees thereto at the time of the appointment.

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Sec. 4. In every case where a flagrant offense shall be committed by
any Mason present while the lodge is at its labor, the foregoing rules re-
quiring notice and delay may be dispensed with; and the Master may or-
der the offending brother to show cause instanter why he should not be
punished.

Article 5.

WITNESSES AND TESTIMONY.

Section i. Witnesses in Masonic trials who are Masons shall be
mentally competent, and in good standing in the fraternity, and may be
affiliated or non-affiliated brethren.

Sec. 2. Every Mason shall give his testimony upon his honor as a
Mason.

Sec. 3. All witnesses in Masonic trials who are not Masons shall be
any person of sound mind, of such religious belief as to feel the obli-
gations of an oath, which may be administered by any competent legal
officer.

Sec. 4. The evidence of both the accuser and the accused, if offered,
shall be received in any Masonic trial. The status of a Mason under
charges is not affected until after conviction.

Sec. 5. The testimony of witnesses who are Masons may be taken in
open lodge or by a special committee appointed by the Master. Witnesses
who are not Masons shall be examined by said committee. In either case
the accused and accuser, in person or by attorney, shall be entitled to be
present and propound such relevant questions as they may desire. A Ma-
son employed as counsel by a brother on trial is not to be considered as a
visitor during such trial, and therefore can not be excluded on the ob-
jection of a member. If an accused Mason, whose trial is pending, ap-
pears before the committee taking the evidence, and persists in such
boisterous and indecorous conduct as to prevent the evidence being taken
in his presence, the committee would be warranted in ejecting him and
taking the evidence in his absence. A committee appointed by a lodge to
take evidence in a trial cannot quash or modify the charge and specifica-
tions. Neither can the committee try the case and report its conclusions.

Sec. 6. The testimony of any witness unable to attend the lodge or a
committee may be taken by deposition before a properly authorized person
or persons, due notice of the time and place having first been given.

Sec. 7. It shall be the duty of the accused and accuser to secure the
attendance of their respective witnesses who are not Masons, and through
the Master and Secretary of the lodge they may, when necessary, sum-
mon for such purpose any resident Mason.

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Sec. 8. When testimony is taken in open lodge, the lodge shall be
opened on the highest degree to which the accused has attained in An-
cient Craft Masonry; but the decision as to guilt or innocence, and the
question of punishment, shall be severally determined in and by a lodge of
Master Masons.

Sec. 9. The Master shall decide all questions arising as to the rele-
vancy of the evidence and the regularity of the proceedings ; and the Sec-
retary shall take down in writing all the evidence submitted by both the
prosecution and defense, and note all objections made by either party, and
the rulings of the Master ; and the record thereof shall be filed among the
archives of the lodge ; and the main facts of the case shall be entered upon
the lodge records. The record of the trial and conviction of the accused
of the same offense in a civil court is not sufficient to warrant the lodge in
finding a verdict of guilty, but may be introduced as a part of the evi-
dence. The case must be conducted according to the rules laid down by
the Grand Lodge, which require the jury to hear the evidence before vot-
ing on the question of guilt or innocence.

Sec. 10. At the conclusion of the evidence the accused and the ac-
cuser, in person or through their attorneys, may, if they desire, address
such relevant remarks to the lodge upon the merits of the case as may
be deemed proper, after which the accused and the accuser shall retire
from the lodge and remain in an ante-room until the final decision : Pro-
vided, that if the Junior Warden shall be the accuser, in his official ca-
pacity, he shall not be obliged to retire ; after which any member
entitled to vote may express his views of the case and of the law and the
facts involved; and no member shall be permitted to withdraw from the
lodge until after final action, except for urgent cause, and by consent of
two-thirds of the members present.

Sec. 11. When a committee is appointed, as provided in Section 5 of
this article, it shall consist of not less than three members of the lodge,
either of whom, if objected to by either of the parties for cause, may be
removed by the Master and another appointed.

Sec. 12. Every such committee shall convene and select from their
number a Chairman and Secretary; and when so organized shall have
power, through the Master and Secretary of the lodge, to summon before
them the accused and accuser, with their respective witnesses.

Sec. 13. The proceedings of such committee shall be governed by
the provisions of Section 3, of Article 4, and Sections 1, 2, 3, and 6 of this
article. The duties of the Master and Secretary prescribed in Section 9
of this article shall apply to, and be discharged by, the Chairman and Sec-
retary of the committee.

Sec. 14. The committee may sit whenever and as often as it may
deem best for the interests of Masonry : Provided, that every trial begun

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shall be prosecuted with as much dispatch as the law governing the same,
nnd full justice to the accused and accuser, will permit.

Sec. 15. When the committee have concluded their labors, they shall
report their proceedings and all the evidence to the lodge; and upon re-
tirement of the accused and accuser any member of the lodge present may
express his views of the case; and any portion or the whole of the evidence
shall be read, as he may require, to enable him to come to a decision.

Sec. 16. A brother against whom charges have been preferred may
deny or admit any portion or the whole of the charges and specifications.

Sec. 17. In case an accused brother shall plead guilty to either of the
charges or specifications such plea may be accepted as evidence, and shall
render the taking of further proof upon such charge or specification un-
necessary; but such plea shall not excuse the lodge from voting upon the
question of guilt or innocence. An unauthorized plea of guilty, entered
in the absence of the accused by an attorney who has been appointed to
defend him, cannot be accepted by a lodge or a committee as a bar to the
taking of testimony.

Article 6.

THE VERDICT.

Section i. Upon conclusion of the trial the question of "guilty" or
"not guilty" shall be immediately and distinctly put by the Master, upon
each charge and each specification under each charge in its order, which
shall be voted upon separately ; and every member present shall be re-
quired to vote by ballot ; and it shall require a vote of two-thirds of said
members to sustain any charge or specification.

Sec. 2. If any charge or specification shall be sustained, the accused
shall be then and there declared guilty, and the Master shall put the ques-
tion as to the amount of punishment, beginning with the greatest, and, if
not sustained, the next grade, and so on, ending with the least Masonic
penalty, in order as hereinafter provided ; the vote by ballot of two-thirds
of the members present shall be necessary to decide the degree of punish-
ment.

Sec. 3. When any Mason, after due trial, shall be found guilty of
un-Masonic conduct, punishment shall follow, which shall be proportionate
to the offense.

Sec. 4. When any Mason shall have been expelled or suspended by
a lodge he shall be notified of such action by the Secretary in person if
practicable or by registered letter to last known address. When any
brother shall have been acquitted, he shall be notified of the same by the
Master in open lodge.

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Article 7.

PUNISHMENT.

Section i. The Masonic punishment which shall be inflicted by char-
tered lodges, for un-Masonic conduct, after due trial and conviction, shall
be, in the discretion of the lodge, either Expulsion, Indefinite Suspen-
sion, Definite Suspension, or Reprimand.

Sec. 2. Expulsion involves an absolute deprivation of all the rights,
privileges, and benefits of Masonry to the delinquent and his family; the
infliction of such punishment shall require a vote by ballot of two-thirds
of the members present at the close of the trial.

Sec. 3. No lodge under the jurisdiction of this Grand Lodge shall
expel a member for non-payment of dues.

Sec. 4. Indefinite suspension, whether for non-payment of dues or for
any other offense, subjects an offender, during such suspension, to the same
penalties as are prescribed in the preceding section (2) ; and the infliction
of such punishment shall require a vote by ballot of two-thirds of the mem-
bers present at the close of the trial. The relation which a Mason sustains
to his lodge after having been indefinitely suspended by it is that of a
member under disabilities ; and the lodge still retains its right of original
penal jurisdiction over him for any Masonic offense during his suspen-
sion, whether committed within its territory or elsewhere.

Sec. 5. Definite suspension shall require the same vote (two-thirds
ballot) and the penalty and the period of suspension may be voted upon
together or separately: Provided, that no definite suspension shall be
voted for a longer time than one year, nor for a less time than one month.

Sec. 6. Reprimand shall be the least Masonic punishment, and shall
only be inflicted after due trial and conviction, and when voted by a two-
thirds ballot of the members present. The reprimand shall be administered
in open lodge by the Master.

Sec. 7. Any brother violating the proprieties of lodge etiquette may be
censured therefor upon a motion and vote of a majority of the members
present.

Sec. 8. In taking testimony before a Committee to be used in any
Masonic trial in all cases where charges have been preferred by vote of
the lodge or by the Junior Warden in his official capacity as such, the
lodge shall pay all the expenses of procuring the attendance of witnesses
for the prosecution and of a stenographer, when one is used, to take the
same in shorthand and to transcribe the same. When the charges have
been preferred by an individual member or members of the lodge, such
expenses shall be paid by the party or parties preferring the charges. The
expense of procuring the attendance of witnesses for the defense and of

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a stenographer to take and transcribe their testimony, shall be paid by the

defendant. All evidence when so taken and transcribed shall be filed
with the secretary of the lodge on or before the time of trial and shall
thereafter be the property of the lodge and remain in the custody of the
secretary. At all Masonic trials when witnesses are examined in open
lodge the Worshipful Master shall procure the services of a competent
stenographer if one can be procured, who is a Master Mason, to attend
such meeting of the lodge and to take and transcribe the testimony and
the rulings of the Worshipful Master and the proceedings of the lodge
with reference to such case, the expense thereof to be paid by the lodge.
And the same, when so transcribed, shall be filed with the secretary of the
lodge and remain thereafter in his custody. Should an appeal be taken
from the decision of the lodge, in any case, the party taking the appeal or
the lodge, if it orders the appeal, shall pay the cost of making a record of
the appeal proceedings and of a transcript of the testimony and rulings
above mentioned, to be filed with the Grand Lodge. But if the lodge
acquits a defendant and a member appeals and the appeal is sustained by
the Grand Lodge, the lodge shall repay the appellant the cost of the
appeal as to the items of cost hereinbefore mentioned. Should the de-
fendant be found not guilty as to all of the specifications against him,
either by the lodge on a trial of the charge and specifications, or by the
Grand Lodge on appeal, then any expenses which had been actually and
necessarily paid or incurred by the defendant for the purposes aforesaid,
shall be repaid to him by the lodge in all cases where the charges were
preferred by order of the lodge or by the Junior Warden in his official ca-
pacity. In case of a conviction on some specifications and an acquittal on
others, the lodge shall apportion such expenses in such manner as may be
just and equitable. Where a brother is too poor to pay any or all of the
expenses in this section mentioned, the lodge may by a majority vote pay
the same for him ; but no lodge shall in any case pay any part of the fees
or compensation of attorneys or persons acting as attorneys on either side
of any Masonic trial. In case of acquittal the expenses which by the pro-
visions of this section are to be repaid to the accused shall not be refunded
to him until the time of appeal has expired and in case an appeal is taken
the re-payment shall await the final action of the Grand Lodge.

Article 8.

SUSPENSION FOR NON-PAYMENT OF DUES.

Section i. The payment of annual dues is a duty incumbent upon
every member of a lodge, and the neglect or refusal to fulfill this duty
shall be (except for good cause) an infraction of Masonic law and a vio-
lation of a Masonic covenant, and shall subject the delinquent to lodge
discipline, and no lodge shall authorize or create any form of life mem-
bership or in any manner exempt any of its members from the payment

APPENDIX — PART III. 59

of dues which shall be uniform upon all members: Provided, hotvever,
that a lodge, by a majority vote, may remit the whole or any portion of
the dues of any of its members then due if his pecuniary circumstances
justify such action. Nothing herein shall be construed to effect any rights
heretofore acquired by any member of. a lodge under the by-laws of any
constituent lodge.

Sec. 2. No lodge shall suspend a member for non-payment of dues
without due notice and fair trial, nor can lodge by-laws calling for the
payment of dues in advance be enforced by disciplinary proceedings. A
brother cannot be suspended for non-payment of dues, unless the delin-
quency is for time already passed.

Sec. 3. The formalities of written charges hereinbefore prescribed
for the trial of offenses requiring proof may be dispensed with, and pro-
ceedings as prescribed in the following sections shall be deemed due notice
and fair trial for the offense of non-payment of dues.

Sec. 4. Any member who may be in arrears for dues to a lodge, ac-
cording to the provisions of its by-laws, shall be notified thereof in writing
by the Secretary, with a request for the payment of the same at or before
some subsequent meeting of the lodge ; and if said member neglect or
refuse to make answer to such notice at or before the time designated
therein, he shall be notified in person, if possible, to appear at such subse-
quent stated meeting as may be deemed proper, and show cause why he
should not be suspended for non-payment of dues ; if his whereabouts be
unknown, a written notice shall be addressed to him at his last known place
of residence. This shall be deemed due notice, and the lodge may proceed
without his presence. In extreme cases the Master may in his discretion
summon a delinquent. If summoned and he fails to answer, upon proof
that such summons has been personally served, the offense of non-pay-
ment of dues shall be held in abeyance until the delinquent shall show
cause for disobedience of said summons ; for which offense any Mason
may be expelled, after trial and conviction in the manner and form pre-
scribed in Articles 1 to 7, inclusive, Part 3.

Sec. 5. When any member shall refuse or neglect to answer the
notices prescribed in the last preceding section, his delinquency may be
communicated to the lodge at a regular meeting thereof, which facts, to-
gether with the lodge records showing his indebtedness, shall be deemed
ample proof of the delinquency; if the brother be present he shall be en-
titled to make such pleas as he may deem proper, after which he -shall
retire; and upon such evidence a ballot may be taken upon a motion to
suspend the delinquent member, indefinitely. A vote by ballot of two-
thirds of the members present at a stated communication of the lodge shall
be necessary to fix such penalty; this shall be deemed fair trial.

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Sec. 6. No lodge or Grand Lodge dues shall accrue against a Mason
during the term of his suspension.

Sec. 7. No lodge shall for any cause abridge the rights or privileges
or membership of any of its members without due notice and fair trial as
prescribed in these by-laws. Lodge by-laws which deny or in any man-
ner abridge the rights and franchises of members in arrears for dues, un-
less their delinquency shall, upon due trial, as provided for in the by-laws
of the Grand Lodge, have been adjudged an offense, are inoperative and
void.

Sec. 8. If a lodge accepts a note of hand from a brother, in liquida-
tion of arrearages for dues, it thereby places his obligation for such ar-
rearages on a purely business basis, and can not make the non-payment of
such note the basis of charges with a view to penal discipline.

Sec. 9. Compulsory process by a lodge to enforce the payment of
dues lies only against a member thereof; if a brother has been dimitted
from a lodge by the act of the Grand Lodge he can not afterwards be
disciplined for the non-payment of arrearages existing at the time of
dimission.

Sec. 10. An insane brother can not be disciplined for non-payment
of dues, nor can a lodge charge a brother who has legally been declared
insane, with dues. Nor shall it be chargeable with Grand Lodge dues upon
a brother so declared, while such disability exists. As an insane person is
practically dead to the state, so an insane brother is practically dead to
his lodge, to which he is not amenable for his conduct during the time
of his mental aberration. A lodge can not legally dimit an insane brother
on the petition of a conservator or any other person. If such brother did
not wish to sever his condition with the lodge while he was responsible, it
would be an act of injustice to dimit him when he is wholly irresponsible.

Sec 11. A brother cannot be disciplined for arrearage of dues to a
lodge that has ceased to exist.

Sec. 12. No lodge shall make any law, rule, or regulation exempting
any member from the payment of dues or any part thereof. Provided,
hozvever, that lodges may remit dues already accrued where the member
is, on account of poverty, unable to pay. Except as provided in Section 10
of this article lodges must pay Grand Lodge dues on all their members.

Article q.

APPEALS.

Section I. Any Mason who has been subject to the disciplinary pro-
ceedings of a lodge, his accuser, or any member of the lodge, has the right
to appeal from any verdict or sentence rendered or adjudged, in such case.

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Sec. 2. All appeals from any chartered lodge shall be made in writ-
ing, and contain a statement of the case, the exceptions taken to the de-
cision of the lodge appealed from, and tne grounds upon which the same
are based. The appeal shall be filed with the Grand Secretary at least
thirty days prior to the next succeeding annual meeting of the Grand
Lodge.

Sec. 3. The appellant shall give the lodge appealed from notice of
his intentions, within ninety days after notice of its action, or decision,
has been given as required in Section 4, Article 6, Part 3, of these by-laws.
After such notice has been given the appeal shall not be withdrawn. The
Secretary of such lodge, under the direction of the Master, shall, at least
thirty days before the meeting of the Grand Lodge, transmit to the Grand
Secretary an attested copy of all the charges, specifications, papers, pro-
ceedings, and evidence in the case, and if requested, furnish the appellant
with a like attested copy : Provided, the times herein specified shall inter-
vene between such decisions and the annual meeting aforesaid ; if not,
then such time shall apply to the next succeeding annual meeting of the
Grand Lodge, or may be disposed of by the Grand Master during the re-
cess of the Grand Lodge.

Sec. 4. Whenever an appeal shall be taken from any constituent lodge,
as provided in the foregoing sections, the Grand Lodge shall have sover-
eign jurisdiction over the whole case, and may upon investigation —

1. Dismiss the appeal, approve the proceedings, or affirm the decision
appealed from.

2. Modify or change a decision or sentence, or inflict a penalty where
the constituent lodge has failed to do so.

3. Set aside the proceedings of the lodge for informality, and remand
the case for further proceedings.

Sec. 5. Whenever the Grand Lodge shall modify or change a decision
or sentence adjudged by a constituent lodge, the same shall be final; and
upon notice thereof such constituent lodge shall cause the same to be en-
tered upon its records.

Sec. 6. Whenever the Grand Lodge, on a review of the trial or other
proceedings of a lodge resulting in the expulsion or suspension of a Ma-
son, shall reverse or annul the judgment of said proceedings, or shall order
a new trial, the accused shall be thereby restored to all his rights, privi-
leges, and membership. When a case is remanded for new trial, no amend-
ment shall be made to the original charges and specifications, unless the
accused have due and timely notice thereof.

Sec. 7. Every lodge shall communicate to the Grand Secretary all
suspensions and expulsions as they may severally occur.

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Article io.

RESTORATIONS AND REINSTATEMENTS.

Section i. No lodge shall have the power to restore an expelled
Mason to membership, nor to his former rights and privileges in Ma-
sonry.

Sec. 2. The Grand Lodge reserves to itself the right, by a majority
"vote, at any annual communication, upon a recommendation, as provided
in succeeding Section 4 of this article, to restore an expelled Mason to
good standing in the fraternity, as a non-affiliated Mason only, but not
to membership in any lodge. Any brother restored by the Grand Lodge
shall be entitled to a certificate of the fact from the Grand Secretary,
which shall serve in lieu of a regular dimit in case of application for mem-
bership to any lodge in this jurisdiction.

Sec. 3. The resumption of membership in any lodge by a brother re-
stored as defined in the last preceding section must be acquired in the
manner provided in Sections 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, of Article 13, and Section 2,
Article 15, Part 2, of these by-laws.

Sec. 4. An expelled Mason seeking restoration shall petition the
lodge from which he was expelled for its recommendation to the Grand
Lodge for his restoration ; which petition shall be presented at a stated
communication of the lodge and be acted upon at the next or subsequent
stated communication, when, if such petition be concurred in by a ballot
of two-thirds of the members present at a stated communication of the
lodge, the same shall be so endorsed, under seal, and be transmitted to
the Grand Secretary at least ten days before the annual meeting of the
Grand Lodge : Provided, that in case such lodge has become extinct said
petition may be made direct to the Grand Lodge, with a statement of the
fact, and upon favorable action thereon the brother shall be entitled to
resume the status of a non-affiliated Mason.

Sec. 5. Any Mason indefinitely suspended for non-payment of dues
or other cause may ask for reinstatement at any time and upon seeking
reinstatement, shall petition in writing to the lodge having jurisdiction.
The petition shall lie over for action till the next stated meeting when on
payment or remission of dues, if any, and upon a favorable ballot of two
thirds of the members present at a stated communication the petitionei
may be restored to membership or to good standing in the fraternity only,
leaving him non-affiliated : Provided, that if a lodge from which a Mason
shall have been suspended has ceased to exist, the petition for reinstate-
ment may be made to the lodge in whose jurisdiction the petitioner resides
or to the Grand Lodge, which upon report of the Committee on Petitions,
may reinstate the petitioner to good standing in the fraternity.

APPENDIX — PART III. 63

Sec. 6. If, upon the presentation of the required application, a mo-
tion that a suspended brother be reinstated is carried in that simple form,
he is thereby reinstated to all his rights, including membership in his
lodge. If it is designated to reinstate him to good standing in the fraternity
only, leaving him unaffiliated, the limitation must be distinctly specified ;
being exceptional it can not be assumed.

Sec. 7. A lodge can not refuse to act upon an application for rein-
statement for suspension for non-payment of dues.

Sec. 8. In case a lodge declines to reinstate, as required by our law,
the amount of the delinquent dues paid by the petitioner should be
promptly returned to him.

Sec. 9. A petitioner, as above, can not elect to be fully reinstated to
membership in his lodge or not at all ; the lodge may elect whether it will
reinstate him fully or to good standing in the fraternity only, leaving him
unaffiliated.

Sec. 10. If restored to good standing in the fraternity only, the
brother should receive from the lodge, under its seal and without fee, a
certificate of such restoration, and that his membership therein has been
terminated.

Sec. 11. Definite suspension shall expire by limitation, and any Ma-
son so suspended shall be entitled to resume membership, and all the
rights and privileges thereof, at the expiration of the time defined in his
sentence, without vote or other action on the part of the lodge.

Sec. 12. The reinstatement of a suspended Mason by a chartered
lodge shal be determined by secret ballot : Provided, the petition for res-
toration shall be presented at a stated communication of the lodge and
acted upon at the next or a subsequent communication. If refused, a pe-
titioner for reinstatement may again petition at any stated meeting, but not
oftener than three times in any one year, and the petition must always lie
over at least one stated meeting before the ballot is taken.

Sec. 13. A brother is restored to membership in a lodge when the
decision suspending or expelling him is reversed or set aside by the
Grand Lodge.

Sec. 14. In the event of the unqualified suspension of a brother by
this Grand Lodge, said brother can only be reinstated by the action of the
body suspending him. A sentence of suspension pronounced by this
Grand Lodge may be so qualified at the time it is passed as to authorize
the reinstatement by the Grand Master or by the lodge of original juris-
diction.

Sec. 15. An expelled Mason who has been restored to good standing
in the fraternity by the Grand Lodge can not resume his membership in

64 APPENDIX — PART III.

the lodge by simply filing his Grand Lodge certificate, but can only acquire
it in the manner provided in Sections I, 2, 3, 4 and 5, Article 13, and Sec-
tion 2, Article 15, Part 2 of these by-laws and is not subject to dues until
after favorable petition and ballot.

Article ii.

MASTERS AND LODGES.

Section i. A Master may be disciplined by his lodge after the ex-
piration of his official term for any un-Masonic conduct except for official
misconduct or a violation of his official obligations. All complaints for
official misconduct shall be made to the proper authority during the official
term of the offender, otherwise he shall not be disciplined therefor.

Sec. 2. When a controversy shall arise between lodges, or between
a lodge and its Master, or charges be preferred, or an informal complaint
be made, the same may be filed with the Grand Lodge, if in session, or
during recess be lodged with the Grand Master; if the matter be deemed
by him of a sufficiently grave character to warrant investigation, he may
proceed in person, or appoint a commission of not more than seven nor
less than three Masters or Past Masters, with, if consistent, the District
Deputy Grand Master as chairman, to investigate such charges or com-
plaint ; such commission shall have authority to summon witnesses and
shall have such other power as may be specially delegated to them by the
Grand Master; and said commission shall make such report and give such
opinion to the Grand Master as will enable him to make a final decision.
Nothing in this article shall be construed to authorize the Grand Master
to deprive a brother disciplined under its provisions of the rights and
privileges of Masonry for a longer period than during the recess of the
Grand Lodge.

Sec. 3. When a Master or other officer of a lodge shall be deposed
from office only, he shall not thereby be deprived of any of the rights or
privileges of membership. This provision shall not be construed to pre-
vent the infliction of such deprivation by the lodge, for un-Masonic con-
duct (as distinguished from official misconduct) whereof the party has
been duly convicted, upon a Master who has been deposed from his office
and thus brought again within the disciplinary powers of the lodge.

Sec. 4. When any trouble shall arise between brethren or between
lodges which shall require the presence of the Grand Master or other
Grand Officers, or a commission, such brethren or lodges shall be re-
quired to pay pro rata the reasonable expense incurred by such commis-
sion or officers in the discharge of their official duty.

APPENDIX — PART III 65

AMENDMENTS-To Grand Lodge By-Laws-Proposed.

Amend Part i, Article 15, Section 4, so as to read as follows :
"Section 4. The members of the Board of Trustees shall receive from
the appropriations made for the Home the same mileage and per diem for
attending meetings of the Board as is allowed by the M. W. Grand Lodge
to the members of its Standing Committees.

Amend Section 1, Article 15, Part 1, by striking out "six" in the
third and fifth lines thereof and inserting "three," and by striking out the
words "two trustees" in the seventh line and inserting the words "one
trustee," so that the section will read, when amended :

"The supervision and management of the Masonic Homes established
or controlled by the M. W. Grand Lodge shall be vested in a Board of
Trustees consisting of five ex-oMcio and three appointive members, each
of whom shall be members of some constituent lodge of Illinois. The terms
of office of the three appointive members shall be for three years, or until
their successors have been duly appointed and qualified. The M. W. Grand
Master is empowered to appoint as members of this Board one Trustee
each year, immediately after his election and installation to office, and the
M. W. Grand Master, R. W. Deputy Grand Master, R. W. Grand Wardens,
and R. W. Grand Secretary shall be ex-officio members of the Board. The
Board may effect its own organization, and administer its affairs by such
sub-committees, and by the adoption of such rules and regulations as are
not inconsistent with Grand Lodge By-Laws, subject at all-times to the
approval of the M. W. Grand Master or M. W. Grand Lodge."

Amend Sections 17, 18, and 19, Article 9, Part 1, M. W. Grand
Lodge By-Laws by striking out the word "or" and inserting in place
thereof the word "and" in the first lines of each of said sections and
in the fifth line of section 17, and by striking out the word "deputy"
before Grand Lecturers whenever it occurs in said sections ; also by
striking out the words "or Deputy Grand" in first line of Section 1, Article
32, Part 2."

Amend Part 1, Article 19, Section 17, by striking out in the second
line the words "without fee," and by striking out all after the word
"direct" in the eighth line.

66 APPENDIX — PART III.

Section 17, as amended, will read as follows: "It shall be the duty
of the Grand Lecturers or Examiners who may be appointed by the M. W.
Grand Master to examine all applicants for commissions as Deputy Grand
Lecturers, who may present themselves for that purpose, and report to
the M. W. Grand Master upon the qualfications of such applicants ; and said
Grand Lecturers or Examiners may hold Schools of Instruction, at such
time and place as the M. W. Grand Master may order, and perform such
other duties incident to their position as he may direct."

Amend Section 1, Article 13, Part 2, Grand Lodge By-laws as pro-
posed by the committee, by striking out "other" before lodge in the fourth
line and inserting "previously" before "made," in the same line, so that the
section will read :

"All petitions for the degrees or for membership shall be made in writ-
ing, and signed by the applicant with his full name ; shall state his age,
occupation, and place of residence, and, in case of a petitioner for the
degrees, whether he has previously made application to any lodge ; and
shall be accompanied by the fee which the by-laws of the lodge require
with the petition. Every petition shall be recommended in writing by
three members of the lodge, and be read at a stated meeting, and entered
in substance upon the records. After it has been read it is received by the
voice of the lodge, either tacitly or formally given ; or, at its pleasure, the
lodge may refuse to receive it.

Add the following, to be known as Section 20, Article 9, Part 1,
Grand Lodge By-Laws :

"Each Deputy Grand Lecturer who shall attend any one of the Schools
of Instruction, shall be allowed and paid, upon bills properly audited and
approved, two dollars per day for the time actually spent in attendance at
such school and six cents per mile for the distance from his home to the
nearest School of Instruction.

Amend Article 21, Part 2, Grand Lodge By-Laws, by striking out
all after the caption and inserting in lieu thereof the following words:

"Affiliation — Every brother ought to belong to some lodge, and be
subject to its by-laws, as well as to the general regulations.

APPENDIX — PART III. 67

Amend Section i, Article 15, Part 1, by striking out the words
"five ex-ofhcxo, and six" and inserting in lieu tuereof the word "nine," also
striking out the word "two" and inserting therefor "three" and striking
out the words "Deputy Grand Master, Grand Wardens and Grand Secre-
tary."

When amended the same shall read as follows :

"Sfxtion 1. The supervision and management of the Masonic Homes
■established or controlled by the M. W. Grand Lodge shall be vested in a
Board of Trustees consisting of nine appointive members, each of whom
shall be a member of some constituent lodge in Illinois. The terms of
office of the members shall be for three years or until their successors have
been duly appointed and qualified. The M. W. Grand Master is empow-
ered to appoint as members of this board three Trustees each year, im-
mediately after his election and installation to office, and the Grand Mas-
ter shall be cx-ofhcio a member of the Board. The Board may effect its
own organization, and administer its affairs by such sub-commitees, and
by the adoption of such rules and regulations as are not inconsistent with
the M. W. Grand Lodge by-laws, subject at all times to the approval of
the M. W. Grand Master or M. W. Grand Lodge."

Amend Section 2, Article 8, Part 1, of Grand Lodge by-laws by adding
thereto the following words :

"For actual expenses incurred in the performance of official duty
whether delegated to him by the M. W. Grand Master, or in response to
official invitations from lodges to visit the same, shall, upon the presenta-
tion of bills duly itemized and audited, be reimbursed from the treasury
of the M. W. Grand Lodge."

APPENDIX — PART III. 69

I NDEX

PAGE.

Acknowledgment 168

Address —

Of Grand Master 16

Alohabetical List of Lodges (in Appendix Part II) 2

Alphabetical List of Postoffices with name and No. of Lodges (Ap-
pendix, Part II) 19

Amendments —

Report Special Committee 102

To Grand Lodge By-Laws — Adopted 165

To Grand Lodge By-Laws — Proposed 169, 183

Appeals and Grievances — -

Committee on 7, 99, 126

Report of Committee on 122

Appendix —

To M. W. Grand Master's Address 42

Board of Trustees Illinois Masonic Home, Report of 106

Bonds, Grand Treasurer and Grand Secretary 174

Chartered Lodges —

Committee on 7, 99, 126

Report of Committee on 139

COMMITTEES—

Appointment of 99, 188

Appeals and Grievances, report of 122

Chartered Lodges, report of 139

Correspondence, report of (Appendix, Part I)

Credentials, report of 4

Finance, report of 171

Grand Master's Address, report of 100

Jurisprudence, report of 124

List of 99, 188

Lodges U. D., report of 112, 165

Mileage and Per Diem, report of 125

Obituaries, report of 141

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PAGE.

Petitions, report of 121

Railroads and Transportation, report of 186

To examine Brethren 186

Chartered Lodges —

Tabular statement of, (in Appendix, Part II) 44

Correspondence —

Committee on 7, 126, 188

Report of Committee on, (See Appendix, Part I)

Special Report 174

Credentials —

Committee on 7, 127

Report of Committee on 4

District Deputy Grand Masters — ■

List of 5, 196

Reports of 57

Election of Officers 169

Encyclical 2>7

Finance —

Committee on 7, 127, 188

Report of Committee on 171

Grand Officers —

List of 2

List of Elected Grand Officers from formation of Grand Lodge.. 190
Appointed I92

Grand Secretary —

Report of 88

Grand Secretaries —

List of 200

Grand Examiners —

Report of /6

Grand Treasurer —

Report of 8-1

Gland Master's Address 80

Committee on 7> 90

Report of Committee on 1 00

Installation —

Of Grand Officers 187

APPENDIX — PART III. 71

PAGE.

Introductions —

Of Visitors 177

Of Representatives 183

Invitations 120

Lodges constituted 29

Lodges Under Dispensation —

Committee on 8, 127, 188

Report of Committee on 12, 165

Lodge Directory (in Appendix, Part II) 2

List of Defunct Lodges (in Appendix, Part II) 40

List of Lodges by Districts (in Appendix, Part II) 25

Masonic Jurisprudence —

Committee on 99, 188

Report of Committee on 124

Mileage and Per Diem — ■

Committee on 99, 188

Report of Committee on 125

Obituaries —

Committee on 99

Report of Committee on 141

Officers of Grand Lodge 2

Oration —

By Bro. Win. A. Northcott 103

Petitions — ■

Committee on 9

Report of Committee 121

Prayer —

By Grand Chaplain 3

Railroads and Transportation —

Committee on 99

Report of Committee on 186

Reports —

Of Committee on Obituaries 141

Of Grand Examiners 186

Of Grand Treasurer 84

Of Grand Secretary 88

Of Committee on Appeals and Grievances 122

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PAGE.

Of Committee on Chartered Lodges 139

Of Committee on Mileage and Per Diem 125

Of Committee on Correspodence (See Appendix, Part I)

Of Committee on Grand Master's Address 100

Of Recognition of Foreign Grand Lodges 174

Of District Deputy Grand Masters 57

Of Committee on Credentials 4

Of Committee on Petitions 121

Of Committee on Lodges U. D 112, 165

Of Committee on Finance 171

Of Committee on Jurisprudence 124

Of Special Committee on Grand Lodge By-Laws 102

Of Special Committee on Illinois Masonic Orphans' Home 157

Representatives —

Of other Grand Lodges near this Grand Lodge 199

Of this Grand Lodge near other Grand Lodges 198

Resolutions 105, 1 12, 185

Ruling — By Grand Master 121

Standing Committees 188

Tabulated Statement —

Showing amount of dues, number of members, etc., (in Appendix,
Part II) 44

Vote of Thanks — To Grand Orator 105

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